Alf Cooper

[…]u got any optical printers at Kay’s?Mm, [Pause] that I don’t remember now. That I don’t remember.28Had you got any Belhal [ph 212] printers at all at Kays, Model J’s, Model B’s?No, I don’t think they had, they had all these goddamn things of their own, Vintons [ph214] and that sort of thing.Just Vin[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…]en the technical manager of Kayes. And I said, Yes, certainly. And I said, But tell me, I have never asked you, Richard, what is your connection with Kays? He said, Well, I'm their financial director. I said, Well, that's as good a recommendation as any. And it turned out that this gentleman had com[…]

Harry Courcha

[Side One] This is the twenty-sixth of November 1992, this is the BECTU History Project. Interview number 269 Harry Courcha conducted by Alan Sapper. The recording rests with The BECTU History Project.Harry, mm, when were you born?Second of March 1925.And where?Sixty-seven Queensdown Road, Holloway,[…]

Brian Pritchard

[…] on to Eastmancolor. But they would largely be saying what they were going to use and you might find Rank are using Eastmancolor, and Technicolor and Kays and Humphries are all using the different stocks. You had a lot of pressure in the labs from the manufacturers, you know, the reps would be calli[…]

Paul Collard

Paul Collard Laboratories (Kodak, Kays, Soho Images, Ascent Media, Metrocolor) Interviewers: Sarah Street (SS) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date: 06/12/2017 Total Length: 01:30:31 [00:00:00 – 00:03:35 General pre-interview conversation]SS: This is our Eastmancolor project int[…]

Sam Williams

[…]ything? Yes.Sam Williams  1:57  But I'd had previous experience with before I came there, but the rapid film company so first when I joined Kays, I went straight on being a hypoboy so I was a Hypo boy for over five years in those days one didn't get the chance they got now I've got in on j[…]

Bert Craik

[…]ything? Yes.Sam Williams  1:57  But I'd had previous experience with before I came there, but the rapid film company so first when I joined Kays, I went straight on being a hypoboy so I was a Hypo boy for over five years in those days one didn't get the chance they got now I've got in on j[…]

Vernon Sewell

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 329[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-02-21 Interview Date: 1994-07-07Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Vernon SewellTape 1, Side 1 Roy Fowler: I know Vernon, that you celebrated your 91st birthday on Monday last, so that makes your date[…]

Reg Sutton

[…]ial connection? Or were the two companies independent?Reg Sutton: No, no when Movietone started up in this country they moved into that building with Kays to do their developing and printing because you needed somebody quick and on the job on the site. When you bear in mind that when we used to do t[…]
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