[…]ntually a computerised database. So, I was entirely unqualified. However, I did get an interview. I don't know quite how- I didn't get the job - but Franklin invited me, Noble Frankland, who was the director at the time wrote me a letter afterwards because everything went through the Civil Service C[…]
[…]s were clients so they were people from film laboratories who required training in these different courses. We also went out on location so I went to Rank laboratories in Denham around 1971, 1972, I still have the list of attendees there. A lot of them are very well-known people in the industry beca[…]
[…]d you see was to allocate, er he more or less set the units in motion. For instance, now "Under the Greenwood Tree" you see the scenario was done by Frank Launder and, er Frank Launder and Many Waters Hoffe, what was his name oh dear oh dear it's just escaped my memory. Monkton Hoffe. Monkton Hoffe […]
[…]t right but they got it right and it worked remarkably well in the film. So that was that. That took us, I suppose, to early '46 and by this time the Rank Organisation was splitting its production activities between Two Cities Films and Independent Producers. And Two Cities remained at Denham and th[…]
[…]tant things to be okay with us. We made I made tea and also as a messenger going to the various laboratories. And at that time, the laboratories were Rank laboratories on the north circular road, they did all our black and white processing, and Colour Film Services, who now moved to Portland Place b[…]
[…]e war. We didn't see that in London, but in Liverpool - shook me a bit that did.Charles Drazin: So why did Gainsborough close?Manny Yospa: Oh I think Rank took over - was it Rank? Or did Rank take over when Sydney Box...?Charles Drazin: I think Rank bought Gainsborough up when the Ostrers were there[…]
[…] Night Out and it had Renee Houston and Claude Hulbert. And the vamp, they had things called vamps in those days, was none other than the future Mrs Frankovich, in other words Binnie Barnes. And [laughs] the director was a very nice character but not exactly a dynamic director, called Harry Hughes. […]
[…]sp;into the Royal Air Force was the great Mr handle which I think was also ranks first venture into the feature business other than the religious films which he[…]
[…] you got a certificate, believe it or not. So I started again. Erm, and I went through that Summer, worked at the Albert Hall in the box office, saw Frank Sinatra, so that was good, that was a good discipline, five and a half days, old fashioned work place five and a half days a week, hard work, er,[…]
[…]in 1948 and Pinewood had reopened 18 months beforehand in 1946, and you might say I haven risen from the ranks since I came back, because coming back in 1948 I  joined the Secretarial  Department as assistant to the comp[…]
