[…]f Denham Labs; transfers to technical side; George Barker boss; Sensitometric Dept; uses a densitometer00:14:08 Grading. Handling newsreel rushes for Pathe and Gaumont; D-Day footage. Working during air raids.00:18:22 ACT film I Know Where I’m Going. Denham lab described;00:26:05 lab hierarchy00:27:[…]
Christine WhittakerHistory Project 1As a rare insight into the wonderfully diverse career Christine Whittaker carved out for herself in the world of archive – and beyond – we re-visit an interview she gave to the History Project eight years ago in Puglia, Italy. Her ‘inquisitors’ were Sue Malden and[…]
Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model forHarrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960).I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECTU head[…]
[…] and all that, you know. And I filmed it like that and it turned out nice. So I said to my Aunt, "It'll only take a week to come back - few days from Pathe," you know, the whatsit. And I said, "I tell you what I'll do, I'll bring the projector up as well and we'll have a good night. We'll show comed[…]
[…]s in the RAF Film Unit throughout the war, and again I learnt quite a bit about editing from him cutting.Rodney Giesler: And he went on to make these Pathe documentaries didn't he?Dicky Leeman: That's right. Yes, yes. He was a nice...he was a nice bloke.Rodney Giesler: I knew him quite well.Dicky Le[…]
[…]lding. I'm trying to think in King Street. We use them that was it theatreTSL No.Ho  in King Street, I think other than in Wardour  streets Pathe and there's people there and you used to, they have no lift. I remember that well. That, you know, to instal and bid parking and everything, peo[…]
[…]just the two of us started selling ORWO Films. It was quite a good film, and we did get one big order from Technicolor - because they were processing Pathe News at the time and they wanted two-hundred copies of every newsreel every week, and we supplied them - and that kept us going! Unfortunately, […]
[…] receives the Royal Victorian Order; Adolph Simon – soundman for Pathe News; personality traits of the newsreel cameraman; Ted Candy’s […]
