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[…]ast.Roy Fowler: It was a problem picture for somebody because it went way over schedule and way over budget and it was the reason Carol Reed left the Rank Organisation. It was the last picture he made for Rank and he then went to Korda. There was at this time almost a lack of discipline, almost a la[…]

[…]rs.Roy Fowler : This was when? In the First World War?Ella Mallett : Yes.Roy Fowler : Was it?Ella Mallett : Yes.Roy Fowler : I think that's a side of Rank that probably is not known much about.Ella Mallett : That's his private life. And there were financing [???]. And he was with Miss Latter - you k[…]

[…]le: No, no, no, you're fine, you're doing fine.Tom Peacock: Well when I was there and Alexander Korda was there. Now I can get mixed up you see. Er - Rank, now Rank, he started making films and he started making religious films...Sidney Cole: That's right.Tom Peacock: And one of the films he made wa[…]

[…]se there was a piano accompaniment, the pianist was usually pretty poor, at least in a small town like St Albans. The projection varied, it was hand-cranked in those days, and er, the customers loved the pictures, as I say, anything that moved and they were there, they were not critical at all.Roy F[…]

[…]a focus puller, you're a corporal, if you're an operator, you're a sergeant, if you're camera man and you became a captain. I'm not certain the exact ranks, but everybody was pouncing around pretending to be soldiers, soldiers and I then they decided that game was a supposed technical knowledge. The[…]

[…]ism. It was all these people from Birmingham. There was another onefrom Glasgow. The Rank of the day was John              s.c.P.P. &nb[…]