[…]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[…]
[…];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[…]
[…] 300 films, including the majority of the output of the Rank Organisation, as well as later major international productions such […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]rdinary. I was well out of my depth when I joined them, despite having learned a lot of theory from the film school. My experience was very limited, frankly. I, again, remember within the first two weeks being on a crane, focus pulling. Well I barely knew what focus pulling was, and I was doing it f[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]e Studio was as big as the Nissen hut, I mean the hut just, so it was very, very cheaply done, and was a great critical success, but wasn’t released, Rank refused to release it NS Really? JG I think it had about a couple of showings out of town and that was that. Don’t know why. NS Gr[…]
