[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] worked as Production Manager for the Independent Producers group at Rank on films such as Great Expectations (1946) and The […]
[…] got so many productions going through, as far as the Rank productions are concerned, they’re fixed, I've got to do […]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] it worked, yes. Arnold Schwartzman : Was that J. Arthur Rank, or before Rank? Charles Bennett : Oh, nobody had […]
