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[…] to me. 23 RF: Did any of the Americans pull rank, let you know they wer e American and so […]

[…] course, there was a great deal of light it was the film was not very fast. Now the cameras of course, we did not have an electric motors, we had to crank the camera by hand. And I my one of my first jobs that I learned was to crank the camera at 16 pictures a second. And I really was became very go[…]

[…]rice Carter: Yes,Roy Fowler: Did it come in suddenly in your recollectionMaurice Carter: Yes it did. It just sort of popped up.Roy Fowler: How about Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, were they in evidence in thepicture.Maurice Carter: I think yes, they used to talk to Hitchcock, and I think if he wa[…]

[…] Royal family; newsreel cameraman; about Gerald Sanger and J Arthur Rank; about Mr Bateman – accountant for Rank; expenses and […]

[…] now digital, there’s no… as you and I will remember there used to be a special slide machine that put in individual slides for the local, and indeed Rank Screen Advertising in their heyday actually produced filmlets that could used, I don’t know, a glamorous lady and her husband eating in a restaur[…]

[…] shares and there was some great big thing which was almost a scandal and that's the only thing I can recall. At BIP one of the resident writers was Frank Launder and Frank and his first wife owned the Dutch Oven in the High Street, it was a patisserie shop and they used to run that as a side busine[…]

[…]ion still that we’ve got of the whole crew in front of this ghastly, cheap looking set. But it’s interesting because it’s got three cameras all hand cranked but it was a three camera job which seemed to me must have been a big deal in those days. And my father is sitting there with my mother, very, […]

[…]ou say “I’m shooting the latest James Bond and I want 1000 copies. OK Mr Technicolor, what you going to charge me? What are you going to charge me at Rank?” And Rank might say, “Well, we’ll do it for this price but we’ll use Eastmancolor” and they might get the job. But I don’t think there were many[…]

[…] the 1950s she worked on scripts for a number of Rank feature films, including Trouble in Store (which she refused […]

[…] Commander, qualified Officer [???] Unrestricted, it was a very senior rank. I would at least have got a corvette, at […]