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[…] 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[…]

[…]ircuits department who dealt with them but even at that stage you had the Odeon circuit, you had the Gaumont circuit, both of which were owned by the Rank Organisation, and of course the ABC circuit. So those were your main three circuits. There were quite a number of large independents.INT Like Gra[…]

[…]4] So there you are with a burning ambition to come into the film business, and not being very successful [inaudible]. Well my uncle was Arthur Rank. Was he now? Yah. Oh I had no idea. I was going to say... No, well... ...before, living in Reigate, whether you knew the Rank peop[…]

[…]because but it was exciting. Linda Wood  10:35Do who were the other people working so to have at your level, Donald Wilson  10:40prank launder was ended up in the script department as I was. People I'm trying to think of people who might know, there was a most marvellous chap tha[…]

[…]s out. But he did say they were enlarging the premises, and they were going in more for 35 millimeter stuff, and they would let me know. Well, quite frankly, I thought it was a matter of a sort of a dismissal, but I was very surprised some weeks later that they decided that they wrote to me and said[…]

Colin Flight (CF) Laboratories (Kodak and Rank/Deluxe) Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date: 25/01/2018 Total Length: 02:02:49 CR: Thank you Colin for inviting us to your home to do this interview today. We’re very, very pleased to be here. I’m just[…]

[…] his stuff packed and he didn’t come back again. [LAUGHTER]  And I won money on the race.  But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”.   S[…]

[…] into your pocket from the petty cash. Once in, the Rank Organisation, when they realised what a bright lad I […]