[…]g common one being the red line and the other being the Queen Victoria or the Victoria. I think it's called One did not go into the red line as other ranks other ranks when one were there. You wouldn't be spoken to if you went in there. Now the director that you were working with would be in there b[…]
[…]salubrious district. My parents were, were quite poor. I mean, my mother was one of 16 children and my father, in fact they had to get married quite frankly, because my father was a watchmaker. I think he was pitched forked into that by his mother because he wasn't, he didn't have his heart in watch[…]
[…], particularly now. I mean, when I came back to him in 46, he had become the czar of English film music. He was the musical director of films for the rank Empire, which really amounted to practically every studio except eating that there was. He had offices at Denham studios again. He employed two o[…]
[…]o land a job in Mega assembly at technicolour and it was on a shift basis in 1946 mega assembly and technically I applied for the camera department, Frank bush interviewed me and said I'm sorry we have no vacancies. But we I will pass you to Dr. linsay, who was a very learned colour expert, Professo[…]
[…]Askew: No.Jim Shields: They were a separate entity...Maurice Askew: The Religious Film Society was formed to make Christian pictures, and that's when Rank got interested in the film business.Jim Shields: Yes.Maurice Askew: And they had a studio in Crystal Palace, just opposite the burnt down remains[…]
[…]rth having all that much you know, but even so it was fun, that's the main thing, it was fun.Jim Shields: Yes, yes.Peter Stroud: And of course, being Ranks, you weren't allowed to work on Sundays until you were sixteen. [Chuckles]Jim Shields: This was the religious side of the Rank Organisation of c[…]
