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[…]the Odeon management as it were and they pushed you wherever they needed you?Barry Quinton: Yes, all the cinemas I worked in all belonged to the Rank Organisation. They were either the Odeons or the Gaumonts and I moved then on to the Gaumont. I moved back to Finchley at the Gaumont Tally Ho Co[…]

[…]difference. Some people confuse it just because they're eccentric creatures in the film that it's a horror film but a horror film to me is more like Frankenstein or Dracula or something of that nature of werewolves where I didn't know anything about werewolves at the time.SPEAKER: M1Did you go back […]

[…]s meant that he working with the film crews also; Production Manager on One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard), mainly pre-production; PB was shop steward at Rank during the lock-out in the early-1950s; asked to return to work when the Queen’s coronation was on the horizon; PB talks about his union activiti[…]

[…]said ‘Darling you can't possibly work for that fellow’. So he said ‘I've got a, I've got an idea, I think Sidney is looking for someone,I think Frank’s in today, I will go along and see if he's in his office’.By this time Boultings had Pam did they or not yet?Pam was there, she’d been with them[…]

[…]w, up here doing nothing." So I went down on the train. It was absolutely fantastic...And, with being a correspondent, you got a...you know, you were ranked as...I was ranked as a Major through Colonel, so of course I had a very...lovely cabin, and a vistaed room on the top with all meals on this bi[…]

[…]he supply to the motors went - they'd lost the supply to the motors, but we had the DC for the arcs. So, I'm not telling you a lie, it was hard work cranking that machine for the last hour of the show! [Laughs]. We had to hand-crank it! And another thing, you see which used to happen at the end - it[…]