[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]a boy he used to go to the what, weren't they Penny Arcades or whatever?Roy Fowler  11:38  Yes I suppose they were yes. Where they had the crank machines. Yes.Jonathan Balcon  11:43  Yes that's right. And I think this fascinated him. And I think goodness knows where he got it fro[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]the movement are the first of the Greens, they're the first of the conservationists. If you read the lectures that Morris gave, they're exactly like Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright talks about buildings should grow out of the earth, you know, and so was William Morris. He used to see these bl[…]
[…]d you see was to allocate, er he more or less set the units in motion. For instance, now "Under the Greenwood Tree" you see the scenario was done by Frank Launder and, er Frank Launder and Many Waters Hoffe, what was his name oh dear oh dear it's just escaped my memory. Monkton Hoffe. Monkton Hoffe […]
[…] number?" And I said, "Yes, I can." Well I arrived and to my surprise I was ushered in. And I was ushered in to a room full of Admirals and very high ranking people, amongst whom was Admiral Gordon Campbell who was , if you remember, was a mystery ship, a "Q" ship, a mystery ship man in the 1914 War[…]
