[…]a man at ease, even with the micro camera. They liked me, because either they knew I could do the job very well, and I was very honest with them and Frank and wouldn't let them down which they appreciate. I always found that honesty, done in a tactful way, carried me forward a lot, right in the peop[…]
[…]what are you going to do?' I said, 'Well, what's the offer?' He said, 'Well, the trouble is I've got so many productions going through, as far as the Rank productions are concerned, they’re fixed, I've got to do them.' But there were a lot of independent people who were causing a bit of trouble. Wel[…]
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[…] had the labs were at Lime Grove, you see, because they were owned by the Ostra brothers, and so was Gomer British as Ostra brothers, before the rank organization general film distributors took over. I But Lime Grove, you had little Percy there. He was the developer. And when you take film in t[…]
[…]ortant to us. We found we often did not have original materials or the right materials, but he knew what was back in the laboratories, hidden away by Rank or whatever, and he would go and talk stuff out of the laboratories, so that we could use the original materials, particularly colour separations[…]
[…]er was an electrician I was a member of the team you in fact I think Frank Chapel was a charge and it is actually when when Frank Chapel worked for&nb[…]
[…]sp;into the Royal Air Force was the great Mr handle which I think was also ranks first venture into the feature business other than the religious films which he[…]
[…]me through as I was going home to dinner, [Laughter] going home for the Sunday and that was the end of that weekend. [Laughter]Yes.Oh yes.I remember Frank Coombes telling me he’d burnt the Derby negative?Oh yes, that’s right. He caught that alight in a projector. [Laughter]Yes, yes, yes.I forgot abo[…]
