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[…]my gate, leaving room for the soundtrack. 3. Independent FrameBL: Independent Frame was a process devised at Pinewood. At the end of the war Mr. Rank, J. Arthur Rank, thought that British films needed mechanising - almost mechanising - more scientific. He got a gang of scientists from Watson Wa[…]
[…] had the labs were at Lime Grove, you see, because they were owned by the Ostra brothers, and so was Gomer British as Ostra brothers, before the rank organization general film distributors took over. I But Lime Grove, you had little Percy there. He was the developer. And when you take film in t[…]
[…]a proper member. So I told them where they could put their institution. Without any regrets at all, I found them a very stuffy and rigid minded lot, frankly,Interviewer  5:45  would they today with those qualifications be more recognisable? Geoff Labram  5:50  I think so. Be[…]
[…] at that time. Yes I can. But at. Universal News. There was Freddy Wilson Frank Parnell. Cecil James. Ted Tassie. And of course when you went out on assign[…]
[…] say that I can't use you' and it was a real threat. And I had quite an unhappy times in many ways. And he was also very much like officers and other rank. They went off to lunch and things together and I was left in the cutting room. I had to go at another time.John Legard: Disgraceful.Teddy D[…]
[…]nbsp;              But I rang them to say, you know, I did pull a bit of family rank in that sense, the onlytime I’ve ever done it in my life, but it was too important not to do, and said look, I want to go into film, these are th[…]
[…]os Angeles where a friend put me up and I met this man called Bill Burnside who was Alexander Korda’s representative in Hollywood. And also for Rank organisation. He was to sell English films during the war and shortly after.NA: He was like a sales agent?00.12.13CL : He was a top publicity sal[…]
[…]hey wouldn't let us out. We'd met some Naval [fouring???] captain by this time, who was sort of organising things for us, and we couldn't really pull rank on that! I mean, this chap was quite young, and I was only about twenty one or twenty two, or something, at this stage. And, um, eventually, we j[…]
