[…]w, up here doing nothing." So I went down on the train. It was absolutely fantastic...And, with being a correspondent, you got a...you know, you were ranked as...I was ranked as a Major through Colonel, so of course I had a very...lovely cabin, and a vistaed room on the top with all meals on this bi[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]itish cinema had been, had flourished during the war but after the war it rather disintegrated I would say, there was the people who were working for Rank who then went to Korda. It was the era of Lean, Reed, and Powell and Pressburger. And then later Ealing which we were benevolent towards. But the[…]
[…]ir technique at the time. We went on after, we made The True Glory which was about the second front.SIDE 2, TAPE 1John Aldred: The Americans flew in Frank Capra to direct this movie. We were all doing fire watching, one evening. And this evening it just happened that his evening coincided with mine.[…]
[…]t right but they got it right and it worked remarkably well in the film. So that was that. That took us, I suppose, to early '46 and by this time the Rank Organisation was splitting its production activities between Two Cities Films and Independent Producers. And Two Cities remained at Denham and th[…]
[…] Rome. During the 1940s T wo Cities became part of Rank Organisation. [xxvii]Filippo Del Giudice was the Italian force behind Two […]
[…] at David Storey. 21 But at the same time the Rank Organisation, inspired by Stanley Baker and Joe Losey, they bought […]
[…] was that for some reason it was sold to the Rank organisation by someone I think we both know, as being […]
[…]mer of 1940”[ii]Research required[iii]Denham Studios was founded by Alexander Korda and operated from 1936 to 1952, after which they were merged with Rank's Pinewood Studios. Before this they were known as London Film Studios and after the merger was known as D&P Studios.[iv]Eugene Cenkalski&nbs[…]
