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[…] and we were having meetings with various equipment manufacturers like Rank, who make projectors, I came up with this suggestion […]

[…] manager. And Gregory Baird Smith. John Taylor: Was it a Rank company Billy Williams: No it wasn't Rank, it was […]

[…] Jackson 33, that wasn’t made at Pinewood, that wasn’t a rank film, = rather think that was Shepperton. My next […]

[…] one. Edward Carrick: The next thing on December l0th 1951, Rank Production "Fanfare for Fig Leaves" was one of the […]

[…] WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. Her final film was […]

[…] 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[…]