[…]ugh studio, and sometimes they put out a picture as a "Gainsborough" picture. That was the way it worked, yes.Arnold Schwartzman : Was that J. Arthur Rank, or before Rank?Charles Bennett : Oh, nobody had ever heard of Rank!Arnold Schwartzman : Was Korda around then?Charles Bennett : Korda was around[…]
[…]e been done by the by the RAF Film Unit. The RAF film Unit,s  head is that chief Derek Twist, who was a senior film editor and he would have the rank of Wing Commander.Interviewer  2:22  Would you care to offer up your memories of these various people the Boulting twins and Derek Twis[…]
[…]03  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU to history project.Robert Newman, known as Ted cinema projectionist for the Odeon and rank circuit cinemas, in the Birmingham area. Interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on the 17th of November 1993. side one Well, now Ted, first, when and […]
[…]d in a Jeep, commandeering stuff. And then after that I was sent for again and I had to teach book-keeping to the troops! [Chuckles]John Taylor: What rank were you by now?Charles Wilder: I was still a private.John Taylor: Ah.Charles Wilder: Yeah, and I had to teach this book-keeping. And I'd never d[…]
[…]FF, one of the joint managing directors, and arranged for me to go and see him.PFF?Production Facilities Films, which was the holding company for the Rank Organisation. I mean all the artists weren’t under contract to the Rank Organisation, they were under contract to PFF, all the letters of engagem[…]
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[…]
[…]nbsp;came I served in Italy and came back again after the war I joined the rank organisation. So as much as to Lord Archibald at that time if I had no[…]
[…] Fowler: Just the accountant? Andy Worker: Just as accountant, hmm. Roy Fowler: Well, the studio at that point, the company was part of the Rank Organisation already? Andy Worker: Yeah, hmm. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm, so in terms of production finance there was no problem? Andy Wor[…]
[…]er to have a clean nose in so far as finance is concerned. And if seeing all this sort of thing anywhere in the business, I think go now. What about Frank. SoRoy Fowler  27:45  personal integrity was not just instinctive. It also had been to some extent.Speaker 1  27:52  It stemm[…]
