Search Results for: Rank Olympic Laboratories

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

[…]s were clients so they were people from film laboratories who required training in these different courses. We also went out on location so I went to Rank laboratories in Denham around 1971, 1972, I still have the list of attendees there. A lot of them are very well-known people in the industry beca[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…]d in a Jeep, commandeering stuff. And then after that I was sent for again and I had to teach book-keeping to the troops! [Chuckles]John Taylor: What rank were you by now?Charles Wilder: I was still a private.John Taylor: Ah.Charles Wilder: Yeah, and I had to teach this book-keeping. And I'd never d[…]

[…]me through as I was going home to dinner, [Laughter] going home for the Sunday and that was the end of that weekend. [Laughter]Yes.Oh yes.I remember Frank Coombes telling me he’d burnt the Derby negative?Oh yes, that’s right. He caught that alight in a projector. [Laughter]Yes, yes, yes.I forgot abo[…]

[…]sp;into the Royal Air Force was the great Mr handle which I think was also ranks first venture into the feature business other than the religious films which he[…]

[…]e in - all in the pound. I got, let's see - there was a fellow named - I think he's been an assistant director, but he was assistant studio manager, Frank Covern or Frank Cohen as he was then. He's a very nice bloke and I think he's still around in the business somewhere, something to do with the Da[…]