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[…]
[…]ly when we see in the credits for a film, or if the film is listed in a technical journal, occasionally we’ll see “Processing by Rank” or it’ll be a “Metrocolor” film. And now, obviously doing some digging, we’ve found that, obviously, a film… Metrocolor was a film that was developed by MGM. But thi[…]
[…]sure they would cope under the pressure; sometimes BD would call Rank for advice on issues they were having.00:14:35 – 00:20:20 Technicolor took over Metrocolor in 1987; management of Technicolor were aware that there would be a decrease in demand so there was a need to consolidate; many people were[…]
[…] imposed upon yourself?Yes, and also because I felt more, mm, objective, because I felt I was on the nationallevel and I could look at Kay’s, or Metrocolor as it become, mm, more dispassionately.Yes.Without being directly involved, you know. I had this enormous advantage that, [Pause] as I said[…]
[…] in to talk to you about in terms of the project. Obviously a number of films were branded differently, particularly during the ‘60s and ‘70s, we had Metrocolor, Deluxe colour, and we know that that was Eastmancolor negative being developed by, for example, MGM and Fox. Was there any, from your expe[…]
[…]astmancolor prints and they became a normal lab. Although they used the Technicolor symbol to say it was in Technicolor but everybody was doing that, Metrocolor you know they didn’t really exist, there was no such thing as Metrocolor, and so on.[01:25:25]PF: And do you think because, you know, we ob[…]
[…] the national level and I could look at Kay’s, or Metrocolor as it become, mm, more dispassionately. Yes. Without being […]
