[…]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[…]
[…] (1944) and Man from Morocco (1945). He moved to the Gainsborough studios at Islington under Betty Box, working on films such […]
[…];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[…]
[…] the industry in the early 1940s as studio accountant for Gainsborough films at Shepherd’s Bush. He claims to have introduc […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]earer or Léonide Massine, who I met later when I worked on Tales of Hoffmann which I suppose was quite mind blowing in those days. Anyway…DB: But the Gainsborough films were also made in Islington, weren’t they? Did you nip up there?PM: Once. I was again sent up there to help out on an Eve Boswell s[…]
[…]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: […]
[…]e I met her she was getting a pound a day as an extra, and it was a film we made half of it at Islington; it belonged to Gaumonts but...MS. It' s not Gainsborough, is it?PS. No, Islington Studios. Yes, Gainsborough...MS. They've just rehabilitated that, they've just got it going again.PS. And that's[…]
[…]is credited with direction]Manny Yospa: Cameraman, yes. I think Margaretta Scott was in it too. And er - and then after that I left Welwyn and joined Gainsborough and that was about 1946, '47.Charles Drazin: So that was after the Ostrers had left and Sydney Box had come in?Manny Yospa: Yeah well I t[…]
