Francis Searle

[…]er to have a clean nose in so far as finance is concerned. And if seeing all this sort of thing anywhere in the business, I think go now. What about Frank. SoRoy Fowler  27:45  personal integrity was not just instinctive. It also had been to some extent.Speaker 1  27:52  It stemm[…]

Peter T Handford

[…]to his crew and he was the only producer who really had the courage to have his own crew. He had Mutts Green, Austin Dempster as camera operator and Frank Hollands as the first assistant, and Bill Cook and myself and even when we were not working he used to pay us the whole time though in fact we di[…]

Cyril Page

[…]w, up here doing nothing." So I went down on the train. It was absolutely fantastic...And, with being a correspondent, you got a...you know, you were ranked as...I was ranked as a Major through Colonel, so of course I had a very...lovely cabin, and a vistaed room on the top with all meals on this bi[…]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]what are you going to do?' I said, 'Well, what's the offer?' He said, 'Well, the trouble is I've got so many productions going through, as far as the Rank productions are concerned, they’re fixed, I've got to do them.' But there were a lot of independent people who were causing a bit of trouble. Wel[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]al - he was the sole person - I don’t think he had a secretaryor anything - but he was the sole person who ran - it was a small union - and when Rank Organisation were doing lettering he thought this should belong to ACT because it was associated with films. So I had to sort that out to get the[…]

John Cotter

[…]absolutely with the camera man. I mean, as I say, you are like brothers and you worktogether. But the sound camera man was, if you put it in terms of rank, a sound camera manwas the top rank. Then, of course, on the newsreels in those days one had no directors. Youeven asked your own questions. But […]

Brian Shemmings

[…]er was an electrician I was a member of the team you in fact I think Frank Chapel was a charge and it is actually when when Frank Chapel worked for&nb[…]

Norman Fisher

[…]at point was fragmented over about six different places, Perivale and D'Arblay Street and the rest of it, but we got a specially built building which Rank built for us and the library was at last altogether in one piece.Roy Fowler: Where would you report to yourself, where did the cameramen hang out[…]
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