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[…]oing budgets and getting the film off the ground now, that how one would have had time for that fiddly-dee-dee, I don’t know.RL: Did you work for the Rank Organisation too? He did a lot of costume-films, or was responsible for distributing costume films. Was he very involved in design, did he unders[…]

[…], Castner music, and I stayed with him for a bit, and then we got other arrangers in, because it all expanded, you know. And there was Jeff love and Frank Barber, Burnell, Whibley, Harry south, you know, John Gregory, we're all in this arranging department together. And I started doing a lot of free[…]

[…]mer of 1940”[ii]Research required[iii]Denham Studios was founded by Alexander Korda and operated from 1936 to 1952, after which they were merged with Rank's Pinewood Studios. Before this they were known as London Film Studios and after the merger was known as D&P Studios.[iv]Eugene Cenkalski&nbs[…]

[…]ow, I couldn't then judge as one now can that the whole person can be made up of so many conflicting parts if you like. It bothered you that he drank? Yes, it did. But well it did because coming from a family that hardly did and thinking of him you know oh I would like to marry him more th[…]

[…]at that time.Ah.23Vivienne Collins Tape 1 Side AAnd fear started to be in the air because John Davies, he must have, I don’t knowwhen he took over at Rank but there were by then stories about his cost-cutting were beginning.So therefore you felt you were under the axe or possibly?Well I don’t know, […]

[…]his three dimensional model and the optics and so on were very poor. And then he fiddled around and departed. Were upon our effects man for bamf got Frank Liston came in, said what he thought of the professor in charge of optics. Right now all week bedri had a lens that would, and so on. So he went […]