[…]ldn't be quite sure about that. Gloria Sachs  9:01  What was the set up at Gaumont British? Margaret Thomson  9:05  MT: GBI Gloria Sachs  9:07  Who were the people there, do remember any of them? Margaret Thomson  9:08  Yes, I do indeed. Br[…]
[…]ce boom really. Not so good as they are now of course.Alan Lawson : You had the problem with shadow, boom shadow?.Peter Birch : That was one of the bugbears yes, and the picture always took precedence. The sound had to take second choice.Alan Lawson : That wasn't the case when I was at the Bush. Whe[…]
[…]ts of life films, you know, the development of plants, and so are the time lapse photography. Yes, time lapse photography, but I don't recall whether GBI had any stake themselves. They were of course preparing the studios and offices in Cleveland Street, just around the corner from the Middlesex Hos[…]
[…]t AI had the huge works making turbine generators in Manchester Metropolitan Vickers, you had British Thompson who's invented early sound system at rugby and research labs in college and elsewhere. And Arthur, Elton decided to set up a film unit on the shell model, which will be run by film centre. […]
[…] the 29th of July, and we're back at 111 Water Street, so we pick up now I gather that you've got some additional memories of your time in the 30s at GBI.Speaker 1  24:11  GB, screen, GB, screen, well, GB, screen, stroke after GBI, yes, Roy, because I just to sort of read cap, to bring me […]
[…]?Margaret Thompson  2:07  Yes. And explainwho Bruce Wolf was as  well.Speaker 2  2:10  Well, Bruce will was then the head of GBI, and GB Instructional. And I was justFrances Cockburn  2:21  told, ISpeaker 2  2:22  think, I'd seen a film. I'd seen a featur[…]
[…]e. Dunge 45 Yeah, end of and lean best. Then started thinking about films again. So, like you moved from another figure. But so they commissioned the GBI Goon British instructional to make 616 millimeters sound Coda chrome films for 25,000 pounds, six, 660 millimeter sound Coda chrome films. The sub[…]
[…], Bunny Frankie[?] was with us. Oh there were lots and lots more on the camera side. But anyway that went on and right the way through we were making instructional films, military instructional films and secret films as well. And we were based at Wembley, which was the old Fox Studios, then it was t[…]
