[…]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[…]
[…] number?" And I said, "Yes, I can." Well I arrived and to my surprise I was ushered in. And I was ushered in to a room full of Admirals and very high ranking people, amongst whom was Admiral Gordon Campbell who was , if you remember, was a mystery ship, a "Q" ship, a mystery ship man in the 1914 War[…]
[…] various companies, including the Film Producers’ Guild at Merton Park, Rank and various others. Productions he was involved in include […]
[…]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[…]
[…]d in a Jeep, commandeering stuff. And then after that I was sent for again and I had to teach book-keeping to the troops! [Chuckles]John Taylor: What rank were you by now?Charles Wilder: I was still a private.John Taylor: Ah.Charles Wilder: Yeah, and I had to teach this book-keeping. And I'd never d[…]
[…] the film was shot so rapidly at Pinewood that Arthur Rank was moved to investigate in person. Pennington-Richards also offers […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ome extent, the best handwriting and comprehensive 05:00 accounts we could think of, and I picked out a batch of those on a fairly wide range of ranks, and theatres of war and experience, and sent them all letters asking them to telephone. So, I could speak to each one on the phone, to se[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
