Peter Proud

[…]n I got there because he putHensley and all the other Art Directors in the Gainsborough Art Departmentinto blowing up his film because he couldn't draw. You see you didn't haveto&n[…]

Freddie Young

[…]His first film was Victory shot on Salisbury Plain, directed by Wetherell; FY then worked on various other assignments including three two-reelers at Gainsborough with Ivor Montagu, starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester and Harold Warrender; FY describes shooting the Gainsborough films.00:17:05[…]

Bryan Langley

[…] going onto the stage was wonderful. It was like going onto a circus. Whilst at BIP I was hired out as a camera assistant with Walter Blakely to Gainsborough Poole St on a film called the Stronger Sex which was the first film after the great big fire at Gainsborough Poole Street. The […]

Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…] Balcon  3:06  Very early on, when I was very, very small indeed, I can't be exact about how small but very small, I was taken to Gainsborough Studios in Islington, where I went onto the film set and saw, I think it was a Pash dance ( ?), I can't remember even what the film was, […]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]wler: He was also in charge of the studio fire brigade.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Yes, yes. That was really...Will Hay did a film subsequently for Gainsborough called Where's that Fire? And I'm sure that Frank then was scenario at Gainsborough and I'm sure they put in some actual gags which are p[…]
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