[…] Royal family; newsreel cameraman; about Gerald Sanger and J Arthur Rank; about Mr Bateman – accountant for Rank; expenses and […]
[…]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[…]
[…] Harry P Parkinson , Â British International Pictures , Â Rank , Â BBC Film , Â TV DoP , […]
[…] Deutsch, who owned the Gaumont-British at the time, just when Rank came into it - I think Rank came a […]
[…] said, "I want you to go to a theatre which Rank has just taken over. It's at Marble Arch. It's […]
[…], Ron Parnell came to me one day and he said, "How would you like a sabbatical?" So I said, "Where?" So he said, "I want you to go to a theatre which Rank has just taken over. It's at Marble Arch. It's called the Regal, Marble Arch." I said, "Oh." He said, "It's closed, but Rank are thinking of reop[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]when I got home, me Mother had a shock, because I must have knocked about two stone off meself! It was a very hot day and I never ate anything, just drank - on an August bank holiday - and then I cycled back. Anyway, to get back to George, we hit it off well by going to the theatres and cinemas, you[…]
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[…]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[…]