[…] the wider industry attitudes to film preservation at this time?AM: Well, the film archives weren’t, in general, independent organisations. There was Rank film archives in the UK, so it was very much the distributors who owned all this property which had future value that they wanted to preserve. So[…]
[…] RAF. I went into the RAF in 1943 and I came out in 1945 and he said “I think I’ve got a contract for you.” And I got a contract with The Rank Organisation which wasn’t a fortune but it kept me quite well and I was able to help my Mother and various things like that so I was glad to have[…]
[…]re fun again, just carrying a tripod, holding up reflector and that kind of thing. Man meanwhile, heat. He started as a journalist, he worked for the Rank Organisation, the publicity department after the war. And he liked writing. But he liked him to films and then when I was still quite young, he g[…]
[…]e part I wanted to. I wanted to play the part of the tomboy because that’s what I was, but they didn’t let me play that. I played another sister who drank too much and wore a rather slinky velvet dress and I thought, ‘Oh, goodness!’ But you see, there again, it’s so good to play things you don’t fee[…]
[…]oing budgets and getting the film off the ground now, that how one would have had time for that fiddly-dee-dee, I don’t know.RL: Did you work for the Rank Organisation too? He did a lot of costume-films, or was responsible for distributing costume films. Was he very involved in design, did he unders[…]
[…]absolutely with the camera man. I mean, as I say, you are like brothers and you worktogether. But the sound camera man was, if you put it in terms of rank, a sound camera manwas the top rank. Then, of course, on the newsreels in those days one had no directors. Youeven asked your own questions. But […]
[…]AF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios. And one day I was sent for by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisation are looking desperately for an assistant director and there isn't anybody available," you see, the war was still on. So he said, "Wh[…]
[…]e war. We didn't see that in London, but in Liverpool - shook me a bit that did.Charles Drazin: So why did Gainsborough close?Manny Yospa: Oh I think Rank took over - was it Rank? Or did Rank take over when Sydney Box...?Charles Drazin: I think Rank bought Gainsborough up when the Ostrers were there[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]as nothing but guide-tracks. And so he said, "That's fine", but two weeks later the phone rang and it was the producer, a very aggressive man called Frank Hoare. He said, "I'm in the theatre, waiting, where is it?" "Where's what?" I said. He said, "We're dubbing." I said, "We're not dubbing, we're n[…]
