[…]ecame a powerful weapon for the army, the rocket Typhoons.00:12:30 – 00:42:25 609 squadron became attached to the army and were sent to Normandy; Cab Rank, a system designed to provide maximum support for the army; more discussion of the rocket Typhoons and his operations during WWII.Side 300:00:00 […]
[…]p; Bill Ward 5:16 Oh, yes. And I was there were six of us, six technical assistants, TAs there was myself and Paddy Rigg, Frank Cresswell and Cyril Wilkins, Sammy Sampson and John Brockbank. And Paddy Rigg and I were allocated to sound Frank and Cyril were allocated to cam[…]
[…]ed; Humphries were now in a stronger financial position and it wasn’t in their interest to merge with CFS; John Jeffrey remained with Humphries until Rank took it over; HM took over negotiation with the union during time when laboratory work was dropping as video came in; a strike happened in the ea[…]
[…]was terrible comedies made at Highbury Studios - Jimmy Edwards and people like that. Highbury Studios was supposed to have been the nursery for Rank, that’s right and so they tried everything out there. They really made some terrible films. TD: Can I just ask about the ACTT? D[…]
[…]AF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios. And one day I was sent for by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisation are looking desperately for an assistant director and there isn't anybody available," you see, the war was still on. So he said, "Wh[…]
[…]hild that used to go to the pictures two or three times a week I certainly wanted to be in the film industry and had written all the usual letters to Rank and to Sound City at Shepperton, any names I could get that were appertaining to the film industry I had written a letter and got all the usual l[…]
[…]e in the desert. So we got Sean to write and the story Robert Westerby towrite the script and then finance. Eventually after touting it around we got Rank tofinance it. And it cost £125,000 poundsAlan Lawson: It must have been as beginners quite difficult to raise financeMonty Berman: We had made a […]
