[…] Fowler: Just the accountant? Andy Worker: Just as accountant, hmm. Roy Fowler: Well, the studio at that point, the company was part of the Rank Organisation already? Andy Worker: Yeah, hmm. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm, so in terms of production finance there was no problem? Andy Wor[…]
[…]lot in those days or not?WR: Yes, it was on lengths.?LH: Yes but once you got the thing you just slung it, there was no-LH: You couldn’t angle it or crank it in and out.WR: Yes you could crank it in and out; that was when it got heavy. It was counterbalanced when it was fairly well out but when it w[…]
[…]os Angeles where a friend put me up and I met this man called Bill Burnside who was Alexander Korda’s representative in Hollywood. And also for Rank organisation. He was to sell English films during the war and shortly after.NA: He was like a sales agent?00.12.13CL : He was a top publicity sal[…]
[…] Night Out and it had Renee Houston and Claude Hulbert. And the vamp, they had things called vamps in those days, was none other than the future Mrs Frankovich, in other words Binnie Barnes. And [laughs] the director was a very nice character but not exactly a dynamic director, called Harry Hughes. […]
[…]my Gilbert: not at all, apart from continuing to play the piano anywhere given half the chance, in any music bar as well in America.John Taylor: What rank were you then.Jimmy Gilbert: pilot officer and then it was automatic flight lieutenant. I was on first of all as a sort of observer, second pilot[…]
[…] of those days that were in cinemas?Jack Rockett: I don't know if I can remember the titles. [Pauses]Sidney Cole: Some of the Korda?Jack Rockett: The Rank one of - oh, titles!Sidney Cole: What was it about?Jack Rockett: Took such a lot of money. It cost very little to make. It was a Rank picture.Sid[…]
[…]ortant to us. We found we often did not have original materials or the right materials, but he knew what was back in the laboratories, hidden away by Rank or whatever, and he would go and talk stuff out of the laboratories, so that we could use the original materials, particularly colour separations[…]
[…]’re going in as liaison for us.” “Liaison to who?” I said. “Polish Air Force”. So, there I was, two thousand Poles and twenty-six Englishmen, highest rank Flight Lieutenant. All called each other by our first names. The paymaster came up to me one day and said “Look here, you’ve got to collect some […]
[…]03 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU to history project.Robert Newman, known as Ted cinema projectionist for the Odeon and rank circuit cinemas, in the Birmingham area. Interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on the 17th of November 1993. side one Well, now Ted, first, when and […]
[…]d in a Jeep, commandeering stuff. And then after that I was sent for again and I had to teach book-keeping to the troops! [Chuckles]John Taylor: What rank were you by now?Charles Wilder: I was still a private.John Taylor: Ah.Charles Wilder: Yeah, and I had to teach this book-keeping. And I'd never d[…]
