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[…] camera operator Len Harris, Cox was ‘a marvellous chap’. At Gainsborough, when he was starting out, Harris remembered, ‘a film […]

[…]earer or Léonide Massine, who I met later when I worked on Tales of Hoffmann which I suppose was quite mind blowing in those days. Anyway…DB: But the Gainsborough films were also made in Islington, weren’t they? Did you nip up there?PM: Once. I was again sent up there to help out on an Eve Boswell s[…]

[…]uite good to actually see her and then go away and do the painting. And they wanted the painting done Goya-like which I did. I did the first one like Gainsborough and it wasn’t right. I did all the lace and everything like that. You know, I had to do a mock. Can you do this? Yes, I can do this. So g[…]

[…]me Grove in those days?[A 30:00]Of Lime Grove? Well, it was a rabbit warren wasn’t it? I, you, I always remember being so excited because it had been Gainsborough Studios and all that and, but I could never find my way to the canteen because there always seemed to be enormous iron staircases and I w[…]

[…]s then fifteen. And so I was told, "Yes, we're going to put you in the sound department, in the sound maintenance department, but you've got to go to Gainsborough over at Islington." Which is a horrible studio [chuckles] opposite the 'Sunbeam' tobacco factory - but obviously I was delighted to no lo[…]

[…]know, the main one...Rodney Giesler: Shepherd's Bush?Larry Allen: Ah, Shepherd's Bush. As a matter of fact, to tell the truth...Rodney Giesler: Where Gainsborough used to be?Larry Allen: That's right! Opposite the college isn't it? It's opposite the college.Rodney Giesler: That's right.Larry Allen: […]

[…]Samuelson: And - I think then that that's interesting, that all those years ago was it the general rule that Ealing did not have people on staff like Gainsborough at Lime Grove had people on staff and Pinewood had people on staff.Erica Masters: I think that they had production managers on staff, I m[…]

[…]r whoever it might be, to all one of the studios where we might be working. Sometimes I had to go on my own to to the studio, I remember going to the Gainsborough studios to shepherds, Bush to supervise a very nice pianist whose name I forgotten teaching somebody some star. It might have been the fa[…]