[…] to like to recap slightly when I was still on the sound camera, being seconded to Walton for two weeks, when Butchers were making a film with Frank Randall called When you come Home, Blakely wasn't around Blakely, BlakelyBlakely, and Blakely , was Manchester led Butchers Manchester exce[…]
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[…]
[…]a boy he used to go to the what, weren't they Penny Arcades or whatever?Roy Fowler 11:38 Yes I suppose they were yes. Where they had the crank machines. Yes.Jonathan Balcon 11:43 Yes that's right. And I think this fascinated him. And I think goodness knows where he got it fro[…]
[…]ir technique at the time. We went on after, we made The True Glory which was about the second front.SIDE 2, TAPE 1John Aldred: The Americans flew in Frank Capra to direct this movie. We were all doing fire watching, one evening. And this evening it just happened that his evening coincided with mine.[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] the wider industry attitudes to film preservation at this time?AM: Well, the film archives weren’t, in general, independent organisations. There was Rank film archives in the UK, so it was very much the distributors who owned all this property which had future value that they wanted to preserve. So[…]
[…];Oh yes...Cyril Pennington-Richards: ...who offered us their facilities if we would do a sequence on the stained glass windows. This was a hand-cranked wooden camera, so I went back to my local garage and the man had a - I used to invent a lot of things even in those days, and this man who owne[…]
[…]ou say “I’m shooting the latest James Bond and I want 1000 copies. OK Mr Technicolor, what you going to charge me? What are you going to charge me at Rank?” And Rank might say, “Well, we’ll do it for this price but we’ll use Eastmancolor” and they might get the job. But I don’t think there were many[…]
[…] it wasn't a very big budget. And then I went on to do another one. And discovered a young lady called Suzy Kendall, who's her first film with, with Frank Ifield and a collection of amusing British actors. And in those days, it was a spoof on on the Rififi by Jules Dessin? That's for ideas. Ye[…]
