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[…] a big film career in the ‘50s with that strange Rank Organisation scene. And I mean the first thing she did […]

[…] Woman’s Work (Open University 1975); Visit by Members of the Rank Organisation Board to Rank Film Laboratories (British Movietone 1978); Film […]

[…]at that time.Ah.23Vivienne Collins Tape 1 Side AAnd fear started to be in the air because John Davies, he must have, I don’t knowwhen he took over at Rank but there were by then stories about his cost-cutting were beginning.So therefore you felt you were under the axe or possibly?Well I don’t know, […]

[…] to like to recap  slightly when I was still on the sound camera, being seconded to Walton for two weeks, when Butchers were making a film with Frank Randall called When you come Home, Blakely wasn't around Blakely, BlakelyBlakely, and Blakely , was Manchester led Butchers Manchester  exce[…]

[…] to do effects producing them in the studios?Michael Colomb  0:30  Well, that the, this is where there was obviously. Now going back to the Rank days where, you know independent frame was thought about and they brought in even ABPC, I remember the BBC effects people being brought in things[…]

[…]Askew: No.Jim Shields: They were a separate entity...Maurice Askew: The Religious Film Society was formed to make Christian pictures, and that's when Rank got interested in the film business.Jim Shields: Yes.Maurice Askew: And they had a studio in Crystal Palace, just opposite the burnt down remains[…]

[…]se there was a piano accompaniment, the pianist was usually pretty poor, at least in a small town like St Albans. The projection varied, it was hand-cranked in those days, and er, the customers loved the pictures, as I say, anything that moved and they were there, they were not critical at all.Roy F[…]

[…] was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisation are looking desperately for an assistant director and there […]

[…] weren't budging. So I had to sell myself to the Rank Organisation over this and MGM took the attitude, "We wouldn't […]