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[…] enormous money has been spent recently refurbishing cinemas, multiplexes, Dolby sound, stereo sound, but nothing has been done to control […]

Mel Faber

[…] being called up into the factories and the young lady who doing shorts bookings was called up and they promoted me to being shorts booking clerk. It sounds funny now when you think of the business today. Shorts were quite an important part of the programme and no computers, we had these thick log b[…]

Betty Willingale

[…] think, but this was the first what came to be called, horribly I thought, the Classic Serial. Very daunting type of title isn’t it - Classic Serial? Sounds as if you’re going back to school.[A 10:06]And who, whose idea would that have been, have you any idea?Donald Wilson.Donald, it was Donald Wils[…]

John Hogarth

[…]hest paid man in the world was Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM, and I thought, "Well this film lark, probably has got something going for it." And it sounded a bit more interesting than estate agents. So I joined British Lion, as I say, in September of 1946 as what was then described as an office ju[…]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]in those days that was with frame, wasn't it, frame development- (That's right.) How many feet did the frame take?Bill Girdlestone: Well, before sound 180 feet, after sound about 280 feet.Fowler/Lawson: That was the dreadnoughts, wasn’t it?Bill Girdlestone: They built the frames so th[…]
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