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[…]e war. We didn't see that in London, but in Liverpool - shook me a bit that did.Charles Drazin: So why did Gainsborough close?Manny Yospa: Oh I think Rank took over - was it Rank? Or did Rank take over when Sydney Box...?Charles Drazin: I think Rank bought Gainsborough up when the Ostrers were there[…]

[…]ditor there also called Slash Hudsmith.Rodney Giesler: I remember him. Philip Hudsmith. He went out to Canada eventually. And then there was Charles Frank there doing a film on the July Plot against Hitler. Anyhow that was the crowd there. It had just become a smoking area, the cutting room. Nitrate[…]

[…]said, You know, I said, Is it going to be just a few shots in the film? He said, Well, it'd be quite a big sequence. I said, we're looking at, quite frankly, don't have the Brandenburg. We say, all right, watch. I have I said all we're what have Mozart have a moped, I have a Mozart clarinet concerto[…]

[…]rth having all that much you know, but even so it was fun, that's the main thing, it was fun.Jim Shields: Yes, yes.Peter Stroud: And of course, being Ranks, you weren't allowed to work on Sundays until you were sixteen. [Chuckles]Jim Shields: This was the religious side of the Rank Organisation of c[…]

[…]ter, or there, we, we had War correspondents and we need another one. And I can remember names like Richard Dimbleby, and Wynford Vaughan Thomas and Frank Gillard and all these...Yes. Also how much it, it cost?Yes. It was the, it was the, it was the sort of request for more money for various people […]

[…];of Pinewood rut and it was absolutely ready for somebody to just prick the balloon of ABC and Rank. And these films were really the forerunners of the social films that followed, in fact made by[…]

[…]le he selected and found, the stars he made were the international ones. Oh yes I think one was lucky to sort of join his stable rather than, say the Rank stable (the Rank Organisation), certainly the ABPC (Associated British Picture Corporation) one you know, just narrow minded and petty.And certai[…]

[…]at point was fragmented over about six different places, Perivale and D'Arblay Street and the rest of it, but we got a specially built building which Rank built for us and the library was at last altogether in one piece.Roy Fowler: Where would you report to yourself, where did the cameramen hang out[…]