[…]e other ballets I did at the Palladium and things like that, they were all a bit of a gimmick because I was so young. But this was a serious work by Frank Bridge that Ninette asked me to do. And it really was a great honour. I don't think I came up to her, I think I probably did with that ballet, bu[…]
[…]a proper member. So I told them where they could put their institution. Without any regrets at all, I found them a very stuffy and rigid minded lot, frankly,Interviewer  5:45  would they today with those qualifications be more recognisable? Geoff Labram  5:50  I think so. Be[…]
[…] had the labs were at Lime Grove, you see, because they were owned by the Ostra brothers, and so was Gomer British as Ostra brothers, before the rank organization general film distributors took over. I But Lime Grove, you had little Percy there. He was the developer. And when you take film in t[…]
[…]And one or two others, you know other directors.Rodney Giesler : Who can you remember, other people?L.P. Williams : Norman Walker, he was a friend of Rank's in some way, and he did a picture about a fishing fleet in the North Sea or something. It was a very well known picture at the time, sort of pa[…]
[…] TWO -  THE ODEON YEARS 1968 - 1971 Part 1In the summer of 1968 I had been successful in my application to join as a management trainee with the Rank Organisation and was scheduled to start at the Odeon in Edinburgh in October that year once the new General Manager had been appointed and moved […]
[…]t we enjoyed it looking at the stills outside. That was the news we got to Kin g Kong cause I've seen it since many times. But at the time it sort of rankled with us. Of course we were always prone to joining in the chorus of catcalls and boos when the projectionist at the film broke which it often […]
[…]lot in those days or not?WR: Yes, it was on lengths.?LH: Yes but once you got the thing you just slung it, there was no-LH: You couldn’t angle it or crank it in and out.WR: Yes you could crank it in and out; that was when it got heavy. It was counterbalanced when it was fairly well out but when it w[…]
[…]what are you going to do?' I said, 'Well, what's the offer?' He said, 'Well, the trouble is I've got so many productions going through, as far as the Rank productions are concerned, they’re fixed, I've got to do them.' But there were a lot of independent people who were causing a bit of trouble. Wel[…]
