[…]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: […]
[…] where they did get collection and eventually one of us had to take them up to the lab because the labs were in those days. The labs were joining the studios. So as a matter of taking them crosswind hours remember I used to put them in the wrong place and but girdlestone bills girdlestone was out th[…]
[…];delegate to be in charge of production. Sidney Box was also around at the time, he was in charge of production at Gainsborough, then we had Herbert Smith at Denham, who was in charge of production there but it all contracted[…]
[…]le: That's right, yes.Tilly Day: Yes; that's the same picture. That was in the studio.Sidney Cole: Yeah must have been. What was that, Gainsborough?Tilly Day: No, no, Pinewood!Sidney Cole: Oh the studio at Pinewood, was it?Tilly Day: Yeah.Alan Lawson: Now that's er[…]
[…]nd doing some work. And we were there for a bit and then we went back to - er that was it, we went back to The Bush and then I was loaned out back to Gainsborough because they were onto a picture called um... I don't know, Evelyn Laye was in it anyway, it was a costume thing. And I was quite happy o[…]
[…]ollect that Alan. No I don't know where that's come from, there may have been one or two who had been. I think, I think, I think there was someone at Gainsborough, which of course was after BIP whose name I can't recollect. It may be may have been Adam, I'm not sure maybe been Adams I'm not absolute[…]
[…] 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, […]
[…]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, […]
[…]ng of the Rank Organisation which then had a great many studios, something like 13 at its peak, I recall, so that people were always coming down from Gainsborough from the bush, or Ealing. And in turn, occasionally, we made expeditions there, I certainly went to Ealing. So the number of shooting uni[…]
