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[…] 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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]ract, it was abstract on that my uncle died and left me a lot of photographic equipment. Also at Stratton school I came in contact with a man called Frank basil. Now that was the Frank Brown, the Frank bevel on the lawn remember, I think of ICT he was the newsreel cameraman, and this was his son. An[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] got so many productions going through, as far as the Rank productions are concerned, they’re fixed, I've got to do […]

[…] at the airport and we were really worried as to whether it was going to be okay. So there was a very difficult night and morning while we waited for Ranks at Denham to ring us up and say No it's okay it's fine.SPEAKER: M? [Paul Collard] Cool.SPEAKER: F? [Carol Owens] Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah.SPEA[…]