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[…] the wider industry attitudes to film preservation at this time?AM: Well, the film archives weren’t, in general, independent organisations. There was Rank film archives in the UK, so it was very much the distributors who owned all this property which had future value that they wanted to preserve. So[…]

[…]th PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They had a theatre with proper lighting rigs, big Rank dimmer panel and two tape machines with splice-ball edits. So, as well as the entertainment system where the students sort of ran the PA system, […]

[…]machine speeds which mostly did commercials and then there were two 16 mm machines and a magnetic film sound transport and there was also a brand new Rank-Cintel Mk III Telecine which we could actually, it was much more like a VTR, we could fast rewind and that sort of thing and that was, kind of, t[…]

[…] you got a certificate, believe it or not. So I started again. Erm, and I went through that Summer, worked at the Albert Hall in the box office, saw Frank Sinatra, so that was good, that was a good discipline, five and a half days, old fashioned work place five and a half days a week, hard work, er,[…]

[…]h. I mean, every future big star were being tested. Guy Rolf. Unfortunately, I can’t remember who else, but everybody.DARROL BLAKE: That was for Rank was it?RENÉE GLYNNE: That was for Rank, yes. (TIME 19.01) And then they putme on “Brief Encounter” on a short prep and Production Secretary. And […]

[…]ugh. [TIME 00.03.56] So, I would say that was the start because I then kept on to my parents and my father fortunately managed to get, it was a hand cranked Bingoscope projector, a very basic little machine which he bought off somebody at work with four little short films and they became my obsessio[…]