Gerald Chambers

[…]n there was a mother Everett, who was in charge of outside broadcasts, I rememberJohn P Hamilton  33:12  and especially events his name and rank. Indeed. Yes, but he learned he learned fairly rapidly RobertGerald Chambers  33:22  II I think that was probably because he he was pro[…]

Hugh Attwooll

[…]t. The rest came out and the Bush came out as well. Ted Scaife and the sound the sound boys stayed in although they were EBU. Les Hammond Ted Scaife Frank Sloggett and all those people they all were wise and stayed on the job, which was very sensible of them. And then that wasso what happened to you[…]

Michael Clarke

[…]ome tiny quota of British made non non Hollywood majors films to have exhibition. I remember writing an article at home for something to do called Mr ranks gesture which are sent to the New Statesman and normal McKenzie who later became president in Sussex and a friend of mine remembers passing that[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…];Oh yes...Cyril Pennington-Richards: ...who offered us their facilities if we would do a sequence on the stained glass windows. This was a hand-cranked wooden camera, so I went back to my local garage and the man had a - I used to invent a lot of things even in those days, and this man who owne[…]

Bill Mason

[…] there Cambridge University Film Production Unit and we made a film which was called Psychology Today. The camera had been left there, it was a hand cranked, I think Stuart Legart had it earlier, then the other units had it, it was in a room at Cambridge, we made Psychology Today which wasn't very g[…]

Erica Masters

[…] of the female stars and the managing director of the Rank Organisation, and did that have any effect? Was it a […]

Sue (Susan) Crockford

[…] discovered you don’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was a[…]

Erica Masters

[…]as the script by Bill Rose and Corney [NB. Henry Cornelius] hawked that script all over the place, nobody wanted to do it. But finally Pinewood said, Rank said, "Yes we will do it." And now we come into the Pinewood - er, how can I put it? Where they said to Corney, "Oh you can't use the people you […]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]o land a job in Mega assembly at technicolour and it was on a shift basis in 1946 mega assembly and technically I applied for the camera department, Frank bush interviewed me and said I'm sorry we have no vacancies. But we I will pass you to Dr. linsay, who was a very learned colour expert, Professo[…]
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