James Arthur Clark

[…]2I think there were certain aspects of British cinema which got to me and which never left me really which were with the government British films the Gainsborough films. I remember there was always a thrill for me when when the Gainsborough lady got up and bowed and Louis leave his music had a power[…]

Eileen Diss

[…]her oddly enough had known during the war, he worked in Ambulances during the Blitz in the control centre, which was in Shoreditch and quite near the Gainsborough studio and one of his fellow controllers where they used to sit night after night was a really nice man was an art director at Gainsborou[…]

Anthony Mendleson

[…]hey wanted a portrait of Greta Gynt over the mantelpiece, for a film called 'Dear Murderer' which was going to be made at Islington, I think it was - Gainsborough anyway. And so they asked me if I'd do it and I said, "Yes," of course I would and I went over and met Greta Gynt and posed her in the st[…]

Cedric Dawe

[…] a contract with Sidney Box and that was immediatelyfollowing 'Temptation Harbour’. And with that I moved down to Shepherd's Bush to do a picture for Gainsborough. I think it was all Sidney Box’s in those days. That was in 1947. In 1946 I left Welwyn and I was to go to Shepherd's Bush with Sidney Bo[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]eatre. Roy Fowler  51:35  While years. That was Tetlock was net and then was the father called him I went to became producer Gainsborough in Islington. Right. Alfred black and Ted black, I think were the two famous brothers. And I think that father was either Ultra black or […]

Peter Dimmock

[…]sp;   But another thing about Norman I remember, Norman wanted to take the studios at Lime Grove, which, in those days, I think belonged to Gainsborough or God or somebody.  And why I was – I don’t quite know, but obviously OB’s was sort of considered fairly important in television, w[…]

Adam Dawson

[…]that particular film.  We were never taken on because it wasn't big enough,  the company.  If you're Gaumont British or Gainsborough, then you will be taken on the staff. But so after that, I mean, I had this wonderful time of learning about films, having to work fast, […]

Hugh Stewart

[…]le who directed some films in Germany...this was the time when Gaumont British and UFA were getting together. And we were, at this time, of course at Gainsborough studios in Poole Street. And Wilhelm Teile had made a film called Marry Me with Renata Muller and I think Ian Hunter or somebody. And any[…]
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