[…]ed to give me a job.Jim Connock : Tell me, I'm not quite clear in my own mind, you were already at Shepherd's Bush when I went there and I worked for Gainsborough Pictures, which were the sort of 'feature' arm. There was, also on the same floor there was GB News, and then there was G-B I.Kitty Wood […]
[…] Hoxton, London, just around the corner from what became the Gainsborough Film Studios (Islington) in Poole Street. He first visited […]
[…] then. I think he came in later.
Came in later.
Yes.
Right. So who would it have been, who...
Because then, a whole lot of people... When Gainsborough closed, was it Gainsborough or Shepherd’s Bush or whatever it was closed, a whole lot of people from there came over and took the jobs aw[…]
[…]l. It was a very pleasant - I've never known anywhere as pleasant to work as was Gaumont-British.Arnold Schwartzman : That wasn't the... What was the Gainsborough studios?Charles Bennett : Gainsborough was part of Gaumont-British. It was owned by... When I made The Clairvoyant with Claude Rains I wa[…]
[…]pt writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle and he was was known as Betty poor chap, and there was Chan Balcon, who wasrepresenting Gainsborough, the film was Balaclava and was being made for Gainsborough, and also Samuels, P.C. Samuels, also from Gainsborough, and they were the bu[…]
[…] Gaumont-British. Arnold Schwartzman : That wasn't the... What was the Gainsborough studios? Charles Bennett : Gainsborough was part of Gaumont-British. […]
[…] poor chap, and there was Chan Balcon, who was representing Gainsborough, the film was Balaclava and was being made for […]