[…]th PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They had a theatre with proper lighting rigs, big Rank dimmer panel and two tape machines with splice-ball edits. So, as well as the entertainment system where the students sort of ran the PA system, […]
[…] said to me once after about the second week, he said, “Have you ever thought of being a producer?” and I thought he was taking the piss quite frankly… and I thought, no, you’ve got to be joking, you know. And he said “No!” he said, “How would you like an attachment to Light Entert[…]
[…]mer of 1940”[ii]Research required[iii]Denham Studios was founded by Alexander Korda and operated from 1936 to 1952, after which they were merged with Rank's Pinewood Studios. Before this they were known as London Film Studios and after the merger was known as D&P Studios.[iv]Eugene Cenkalski&nbs[…]
[…]g common one being the red line and the other being the Queen Victoria or the Victoria. I think it's called One did not go into the red line as other ranks other ranks when one were there. You wouldn't be spoken to if you went in there. Now the director that you were working with would be in there b[…]
[…]say one thing, I was absolutely lost, because I was surrounded by brilliant academic minds, they were all 'double firsts' from Oxbridge you see. And frankly, I could have been in Tibet, I didn't know what the heck they were talking about.John Legard: Who are the names that you're talking about now? […]
[…]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[…]
[…]lly I think it was quite an achievement actually.SC : It seems a very odd way of going about it, did you do it for an American company.CC: No, it was Rank, and the producer was, it's marvelous how clear your memory is, it doesn’t matter. I had to make it because I wanted money. It had a writer who w[…]
