[…] thanks to David. David persuaded them to give us money, quite substantial money at the time, something like £100,000, this was about 1980 to restore Technicolor films, British Technicolor films, particularly, and of course that meant Powell & Pressburger mainly and the first one we did was […]
[…] which of course they all went out of the window after about two years. Course Mrs Kalmus she was the trouble you see. Dr Kalmus, who was the head of Technicolor, his wife, she used to turn up every spring if you were making colour films, in time for the racing and she would be a colour expert on th[…]
[…] canvas chairs with their names on them. I was in heaven. I wasn't that star-struck, but I was fascinated by the activity, lights being set, the huge Technicolor three strip cameras. I walked on air.John Legard: I wonder if your visit was a one-off.Rodney Giesler: I don't know. I never met him (Neam[…]
John Jeffrey (JJ)Laboratories (Technicolor, Colour Film Services, Humphries)BECTU No. 273Interviewers: Alan Lawson (AL) & Syd Wilson (SW)Date: 23/02/19932 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:05 Born 27 Sep 1917 Motherwell; schooling; 1926 strike & depression; marriage at Gretna Green and move […]
[…];and. That's how I compare first jobs John's working in the camera department a Technicolor songstress that was on three strip. Yes. So I had to learn. How to&n[…]
[…]you know, that's what you used to do. And then it in the meantime, in the paper, was during this period there was in the paper, there was a bit about Technicolor was asking for people. So I wrote, and I must have got a letter back from and say, very sorry, but we're full up, but we'll keep you in li[…]
[…]ies. So then being xxx whosethis bloke who's sitting down here, and a great inquiry went on. It didn't faze him toomuch because he became head of the Technicolor at later, Frank, who was head ofTechnicolor processingAnd what I didn't mention to you that I think is quite important is our entry intoTe[…]
