[…]p; JIM WHITTELL: I think more fundamentally as so often happens Rank had taken over the largest cinema distribution and production company in Holland, and having taken it over left it with the original owner to run it. Very, very naïve. And within a few mont[…]
[…]surviving. All right. And that was quite a lot of money in those days. Darrol Blake 12:15 I was meaning particularly productions or people or writers or, you know, David Croft 12:19 I was, I was in a couple of musicals in one that aborted a[…]
[…] in Ireland. And we had all our own equipment on that, as MGM weren't interested because it was um - David Lean had a sort of company called 'Faraway Productions' which was based, I think, in Switzerland - but MGM sort of washed their hands of it. And we were on the payroll of 'Faraway Productions' […]
[…]red what was going to happen. But because I think ESL really, they did just want the educational film library, what they got was a film library and a production company. So the first thing they did was to shoot the film library down to Bristol. Now they were stuck with this sort of racehorse that ke[…]
