[…]inking about if there are any differences between the labs that were printing your films, if you had a preference if they went through Technicolor or Rank for their final release print, but I guess…CM: There was always some of that and often you weren’t told but I would go, whoever processed the neg[…]
[…]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, […]
[…]t I loved it. I have my own dugout canoe and a driver and I used to race around the place. I was doing second unit director, chores and editing with Frank Keller. I was sort of the CO editor on it. And we had one move the other so we used to do shifts of editing. And it was quite fun. And anyway, Mi[…]
[…]– in ’49 – Lime Grove closed.PM: Yeah, it closed then I believe because the government funding cut-back on the Quota Quickies.DB: And it was owned by Rank by then.PM: I suppose it was, wasn’t it? I thought – not Ostrers, the Ostrers had moved on.DB: Yeah.PM: Oh, okay. So then I moved on, I can’t rem[…]
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[…]re fun again, just carrying a tripod, holding up reflector and that kind of thing. Man meanwhile, heat. He started as a journalist, he worked for the Rank Organisation, the publicity department after the war. And he liked writing. But he liked him to films and then when I was still quite young, he g[…]
[…]the Odeon in Bristol I suppose there was a lot I can say maybe over 100BG What happened then?CY Well I think a lot of guys who were in cinemas on the Rank circuit thought it was it might be a backdoor into movies at Pinewood but it didn't work out that way. So I thought along all right with them but[…]
[…] and some flats. See, but during that time, I was on relief base back at Surbiton, which was handy. And I looked after a couple of bingo halls, a top rank suite. I was at the new Victoria for a while on the black and white minstrel show for that summer. And then as as technical chief as no as just b[…]
[…] said to me once after about the second week, he said, “Have you ever thought of being a producer?” and I thought he was taking the piss quite frankly… and I thought, no, you’ve got to be joking, you know. And he said “No!” he said, “How would you like an attachment to Light Entert[…]
[…] truly knackered, and I’d fallen well behind the rest of the platoon. The platoons were made up of captains, sergeant Majors, all sorts of things. No rank, you just were plugged in and made into platoons. And I was crossing this river, or struggling, across this river (laughing) and suddenly the who[…]
