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[…]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[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…] was back in the laborator ies , hidden away by Rank or whatever, and he would go and talk stuff […]

[…]licker. But what I did come across then, and it was much too expensive, and I never had one was the marvellous path, the scope, nine millimetre hand cranked projector, which I remember to this day, Shall I stop, no matter what, which I remember to this day, cost five pounds, 15 and six months, and t[…]

[…] we put a year on this? I know we're now coming up into the early 50s. Because IRoy Fowler  30:45  was curious about what happened when the Rank Organisation came close to collapse in 48. Because prior to that, when you came back at least two years, it was very boy and industry.Dennis Kimb[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] Army Film Unit, Crown Film Unit, MGM -Borehamewood, Shepperton and Rank Film Labs . Born in 1921 in Doncaster, son […]

[…]ssful at that, and I thought sales would probably be more interesting and more exciting. So I elected for the sales and went into the office. I mean frankly there wouldn't have been any difference between an office junior in sales and an office junior in accounts because both were equally boring and[…]