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[…] number?" And I said, "Yes, I can." Well I arrived and to my surprise I was ushered in. And I was ushered in to a room full of Admirals and very high ranking people, amongst whom was Admiral Gordon Campbell who was , if you remember, was a mystery ship, a "Q" ship, a mystery ship man in the 1914 War[…]

[…]the movement are the first of the Greens, they're the first of the conservationists. If you read the lectures that Morris gave, they're exactly like Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright talks about buildings should grow out of the earth, you know, and so was William Morris. He used to see these bl[…]

[…]a man at ease, even with the micro camera. They liked me, because either they knew I could do the job very well, and I was very honest with them and Frank and wouldn't let them down which they appreciate. I always found that honesty, done in a tactful way, carried me forward a lot, right in the peop[…]

[…]in 1948 and Pinewood had reopened 18 months beforehand in 1946, and you might say I haven risen from the ranks since I came back, because coming back in 1948 I  joined the Secretarial  Department as assistant to the comp[…]

[…]er was an electrician I was a member of the team you in fact I think Frank Chapel was a charge and it is actually when when Frank Chapel worked for&nb[…]

[…] L.P. Williams : Norman Walker, he was a friend of Rank's in some way, and he did a picture about […]

[…]And one or two others, you know other directors.Rodney Giesler : Who can you remember, other people?L.P. Williams : Norman Walker, he was a friend of Rank's in some way, and he did a picture about a fishing fleet in the North Sea or something. It was a very well known picture at the time, sort of pa[…]

[…]d you see was to allocate, er he more or less set the units in motion. For instance, now "Under the Greenwood Tree" you see the scenario was done by Frank Launder and, er Frank Launder and Many Waters Hoffe, what was his name oh dear oh dear it's just escaped my memory. Monkton Hoffe. Monkton Hoffe […]

[…] TWO -  THE ODEON YEARS 1968 - 1971 Part 1In the summer of 1968 I had been successful in my application to join as a management trainee with the Rank Organisation and was scheduled to start at the Odeon in Edinburgh in October that year once the new General Manager had been appointed and moved […]