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[…]ircuits department who dealt with them but even at that stage you had the Odeon circuit, you had the Gaumont circuit, both of which were owned by the Rank Organisation, and of course the ABC circuit. So those were your main three circuits. There were quite a number of large independents.INT Like Gra[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]because but it was exciting. Linda Wood  10:35Do who were the other people working so to have at your level, Donald Wilson  10:40prank launder was ended up in the script department as I was. People I'm trying to think of people who might know, there was a most marvellous chap tha[…]

[…] his stuff packed and he didn’t come back again. [LAUGHTER]  And I won money on the race.  But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”.   S[…]

[…]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 […]

[…]a boy he used to go to the what, weren't they Penny Arcades or whatever?Roy Fowler  11:38  Yes I suppose they were yes. Where they had the crank machines. Yes.Jonathan Balcon  11:43  Yes that's right. And I think this fascinated him. And I think goodness knows where he got it fro[…]

[…]4] So there you are with a burning ambition to come into the film business, and not being very successful [inaudible]. Well my uncle was Arthur Rank. Was he now? Yah. Oh I had no idea. I was going to say... No, well... ...before, living in Reigate, whether you knew the Rank peop[…]