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[…] Pinewood, Army Film Unit, Crown Film Unit, MGM-Borehamewood, Shepperton and Rank Film Labs. Born in 1921 in Doncaster, son of […]

[…] the film industry. From the early 1930s, flour-magnate J. Arthur Rank had, ploddingly but effectively, built up a formidable vertically-integrated […]

[…]o awful, black-and-white, but there you are. When I came out of the services I was reinstated at Pinewood. Because in those days, Pinewood, it wasn’t Rank but Independent Producers had gone. The studio had… so I went to work on Trio with Maurice Carter and then I was transferred very quick[…]

[…]d for 18 months working with television – all of the television companies above the Thames, LWT up to Aberdeen; through this he got to know people at Rank and Technicolor; a management shakeup happened at Technicolor; a position as Technical Controller came up and BD moved from Kodak to Technicolor.[…]

[…]its me. But kidding, I find the I got quite excited by the cut and thrust of being a shooter executive. Going through the after the acquisition. When rank sold Pinewood to a consortium led by Miko grade. That was a very interesting time getting involved with all sorts of new decisions that her I had[…]

[…]the Odeon management as it were and they pushed you wherever they needed you?Barry Quinton: Yes, all the cinemas I worked in all belonged to the Rank Organisation. They were either the Odeons or the Gaumonts and I moved then on to the Gaumont. I moved back to Finchley at the Gaumont Tally Ho Co[…]

[…]s meant that he working with the film crews also; Production Manager on One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard), mainly pre-production; PB was shop steward at Rank during the lock-out in the early-1950s; asked to return to work when the Queen’s coronation was on the horizon; PB talks about his union activiti[…]