[…]in 1948 and Pinewood had reopened 18 months beforehand in 1946, and you might say I haven risen from the ranks since I came back, because coming back in 1948 I  joined the Secretarial  Department as assistant to the comp[…]
[…]a proper member. So I told them where they could put their institution. Without any regrets at all, I found them a very stuffy and rigid minded lot, frankly,Interviewer  5:45  would they today with those qualifications be more recognisable? Geoff Labram  5:50  I think so. Be[…]
[…]ircuits department who dealt with them but even at that stage you had the Odeon circuit, you had the Gaumont circuit, both of which were owned by the Rank Organisation, and of course the ABC circuit. So those were your main three circuits. There were quite a number of large independents.INT Like Gra[…]
[…]4]
So there you are with a burning ambition to come into the film business, and not being very successful [inaudible].
Well my uncle was Arthur Rank.
Was he now?
Yah.
Oh I had no idea. I was going to say...
No, well...
...before, living in Reigate, whether you knew the Rank peop[…]
[…]because but it was exciting. Linda Wood 10:35Do who were the other people working so to have at your level, Donald Wilson 10:40prank launder was ended up in the script department as I was. People I'm trying to think of people who might know, there was a most marvellous chap tha[…]
[…]FF, one of the joint managing directors, and arranged for me to go and see him.PFF?Production Facilities Films, which was the holding company for the Rank Organisation. I mean all the artists weren’t under contract to the Rank Organisation, they were under contract to PFF, all the letters of engagem[…]
[…]er was an electrician I was a member of the team you in fact I think Frank Chapel was a charge and it is actually when when Frank Chapel worked for&nb[…]
[…]onscription or volunteering so you didn't know when you was coming out. And there was nothing organised. And the army was in chaos. Any of the middle rank of officers, when I say any, most ofthe middle rank of officers were either over officious because they were hoping to get a long term commission[…]
