[…]here was at white city or Ealing when I first went to the BBC, I started at Lime grove. Lime Grove was the old film studdios belonging to Gainsborough pictures, and I started my job there, and as as the BBC policy is to move staff around. So after that, I went to the old film studi[…]
[…] Now you're back again with Mickey Powell, but shooting at Gainsborough on "Phantom Light". What was Gainsborough like to work […]
[…] Seventh Veil (1945) and later became the scenario editor at Gainsborough Studios. She directed her first feature film, The Happy […]
[…]ent to see her when I was demobbed. And she didn’t need an assistant then but Yvonne Caffin didand so I was taken on by Yvonne and started at the old Gainsborough Studios at Islington. The Huggett films.This was Yvonne too was it?Yvonne Caffin.Caffin.She did an awful lot, yes.Because Holiday Ca[…]
[…]l the extraneous bits, I think I was in that and then I watch it through and find out I wasn't. They cut it out.LW: Which studios did you work at?WT: Gainsborough. I've got a marvelous story about Gainsborough. Not that many years ago I was in New York and Dicky Attenborough was directing Chorus Lin[…]
[…]Muriel Box : That was Betty.Sidney Cole : Oh he's got you mixed up.Muriel Box : I had nothing to do with that, that was Betty's film. When we went to Gainsborough, they wanted someone to do the work at Gainsborough you see, so she was sent to see after that with Peter Rogers. He'd done some religiou[…]
[…]e Ostrer and Ted Black, he was another one. I can't remember the exact dates that they came into being but um - going on a bit, when the war started, Gainsborough Pictures came over from Islington into Shepherd's Bush and that's really when Maurice Ostrer became in charge of production.John Taylor: […]
[…]of an American director called T. Hayes Hunter. He turned out to be a very nice man but he was very severe on me to begin with. Eventually Balcon and Gainsborough Pictures, let me think, he thought I had some sort of promise but he didn't know what so he put me through various departments, the editi[…]
