[…]g common one being the red line and the other being the Queen Victoria or the Victoria. I think it's called One did not go into the red line as other ranks other ranks when one were there. You wouldn't be spoken to if you went in there. Now the director that you were working with would be in there b[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ortant to us. We found we often did not have original materials or the right materials, but he knew what was back in the laboratories, hidden away by Rank or whatever, and he would go and talk stuff out of the laboratories, so that we could use the original materials, particularly colour separations[…]
[…]a man at ease, even with the micro camera. They liked me, because either they knew I could do the job very well, and I was very honest with them and Frank and wouldn't let them down which they appreciate. I always found that honesty, done in a tactful way, carried me forward a lot, right in the peop[…]
[…] course, there was a great deal of light it was the film was not very fast. Now the cameras of course, we did not have an electric motors, we had to crank the camera by hand. And I my one of my first jobs that I learned was to crank the camera at 16 pictures a second. And I really was became very go[…]
[…]licker. But what I did come across then, and it was much too expensive, and I never had one was the marvellous path, the scope, nine millimetre hand cranked projector, which I remember to this day, Shall I stop, no matter what, which I remember to this day, cost five pounds, 15 and six months, and t[…]
[…]licker. But what I did come across then, and it was much too expensive, and I never had one was the marvellous path, the scope, nine millimetre hand cranked projector, which I remember to this day, Shall I stop, no matter what, which I remember to this day, cost five pounds, 15 and six months, and t[…]
[…]ditor there also called Slash Hudsmith.Rodney Giesler: I remember him. Philip Hudsmith. He went out to Canada eventually. And then there was Charles Frank there doing a film on the July Plot against Hitler. Anyhow that was the crowd there. It had just become a smoking area, the cutting room. Nitrate[…]
[…]itish cinema had been, had flourished during the war but after the war it rather disintegrated I would say, there was the people who were working for Rank who then went to Korda. It was the era of Lean, Reed, and Powell and Pressburger. And then later Ealing which we were benevolent towards. But the[…]
[…];yes, I think we worked. We work together I don't think she was actually my assistant  I think we both worked.Stephen Peet  1:05  And Frank Bundy, cameraman and was General of the body and office by and that's how I remember these things going on. But I don't remember much what work w[…]
