Erwin Hillier

[…]a man at ease, even with the micro camera. They liked me, because either they knew I could do the job very well, and I was very honest with them and Frank and wouldn't let them down which they appreciate. I always found that honesty, done in a tactful way, carried me forward a lot, right in the peop[…]

Len Runkel

[…]nknown Speaker  14:56  AndUnknown Speaker  14:58  that was that was best.Unknown Speaker  15:00  Days work I ever did, frankly,Unknown Speaker  15:08  the other great thing in my life, of course, which I have almost forgotten, was music. Before then, my mother[…]

Ted Candy Transcript

[…] Royal family; newsreel cameraman; about Gerald Sanger and J Arthur Rank; about Mr Bateman – accountant for Rank; expenses and […]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]ortant to us. We found we often did not have original materials or the right materials, but he knew what was back in the laboratories, hidden away by Rank or whatever, and he would go and talk stuff out of the laboratories, so that we could use the original materials, particularly colour separations[…]

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[…]

Brian Pritchard

[…]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[…]

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[…]
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