[…]ey all said can do better.RF: It would be interesting if we could talk about these features in detail. We've interviewed Alfie Roome.VG: Alfie was at Gainsborough when I was there. Bob Dearing and Alfie Roome.RF: And Alfie claims Bob Dearing had very little to do with editing the picture, the cutter[…]
[…] would be people come down from universities and things like that and I would be called in to translate. I mean I will say I went on one location for Gainsborough pictures and as soon as the producer - it was in France and he realised that I could speak a bit of French, he roped me in as an interpre[…]
[…]boy or something.I: Yes, rightCB: Or assistant cameraman or something, and David Lean, and the other one Carol Reed, I think I got a photograph of at Gainsborough,I: YesCB: Behind the camera.I: Right.CB: A very lovely capacity, tall, skinny one, yes...19 David Lean (1908-1991) was a British film dir[…]
[…]ery well, no.Unknown Speaker  2:31  And then you started in the film industry when,Unknown Speaker  2:37  as in 1930 I started at Gainsborough studios in Islam what made you chuck up first and go there? Or I, I absolutely just love photography doing at that time. Stills no but wh[…]
[…]Then my brother, the architect, was working with Alfred Junge at Shepherd's Bush andthe connection between that and Islington was that they were both Gainsborough Studiosat that time, with the Ostrers, Isidore running Shepherd's Bush and Maurice Ostrerrunning Lime Grove. And Vetchinsky, the art dire[…]
[…]ly and then was evacuated to Australia, where Iwent to school there. And during the war I came back to England and that’s where I gotmy first job, at Gainsborough Studios, as studio manager’s secretary.1: You just sort of went there and, you know, applied for a job and...?Yes. I was looking for a jo[…]
[…]is credited with direction]Manny Yospa: Cameraman, yes. I think Margaretta Scott was in it too. And er - and then after that I left Welwyn and joined Gainsborough and that was about 1946, '47.Charles Drazin: So that was after the Ostrers had left and Sydney Box had come in?Manny Yospa: Yeah well I t[…]
[…]e I met her she was getting a pound a day as an extra, and it was a film we made half of it at Islington; it belonged to Gaumonts but...MS. It' s not Gainsborough, is it?PS. No, Islington Studios. Yes, Gainsborough...MS. They've just rehabilitated that, they've just got it going again.PS. And that's[…]
[…] good bread, a good bakery. Now you went to The Bush... Andy Worker: Yeah... Roy Fowler: Which was then occupied by whom? Andy Worker: Gainsborough. Roy Fowler: Right...Gainsborough... Andy Worker: Yeah, ah hmm. Roy Fowler: In the Ostrer...? Andy Worker: Well that […]
[…]k home alone in the blackouts with a total stranger, but my friend met a Polish gentleman that worked in the Polish film industry who knew Kleeman at Gainsborough Studios, who was the studio manager. So cutting a long story short, even before I got demobbed, I got an introduction to Gainsborough Stu[…]
