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[…] 46 RF: These were the fat years still for the Rank Organisation? Money was being spent like water. Where lay the […]

[…] course, there was a great deal of light it was the film was not very fast. Now the cameras of course, we did not have an electric motors, we had to crank the camera by hand. And I my one of my first jobs that I learned was to crank the camera at 16 pictures a second. And I really was became very go[…]

[…] TWO -  THE ODEON YEARS 1968 - 1971 Part 1In the summer of 1968 I had been successful in my application to join as a management trainee with the Rank Organisation and was scheduled to start at the Odeon in Edinburgh in October that year once the new General Manager had been appointed and moved […]

[…]ion still that we’ve got of the whole crew in front of this ghastly, cheap looking set. But it’s interesting because it’s got three cameras all hand cranked but it was a three camera job which seemed to me must have been a big deal in those days. And my father is sitting there with my mother, very, […]

[…] now digital, there’s no… as you and I will remember there used to be a special slide machine that put in individual slides for the local, and indeed Rank Screen Advertising in their heyday actually produced filmlets that could used, I don’t know, a glamorous lady and her husband eating in a restaur[…]

[…] and so was Gaumont British as Ostrer Brothers, before the Rank Organisation, General Film Distributors took over. But Lime Grove, you […]

[…]rice Carter: Yes,Roy Fowler: Did it come in suddenly in your recollectionMaurice Carter: Yes it did. It just sort of popped up.Roy Fowler: How about Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, were they in evidence in thepicture.Maurice Carter: I think yes, they used to talk to Hitchcock, and I think if he wa[…]

[…] shares and there was some great big thing which was almost a scandal and that's the only thing I can recall. At BIP one of the resident writers was Frank Launder and Frank and his first wife owned the Dutch Oven in the High Street, it was a patisserie shop and they used to run that as a side busine[…]

[…]al - he was the sole person - I don’t think he had a secretaryor anything - but he was the sole person who ran - it was a small union - and when Rank Organisation were doing lettering he thought this should belong to ACT because it was associated with films. So I had to sort that out to get the[…]

[…]sp; Do you think do you think you were rather on your own in that?Philip Donnellan: It's awfully difficult to know some of the lads some of the other ranks took to holding up opium dens with their I mean everybody had guns we were all used to handling guns and it's the most natural thing in the worl[…]