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[…]

Kitty Wood (Morrison)

[…]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 […]

John (Johnny) Goodman

[…]s then fifteen. And so I was told, "Yes, we're going to put you in the sound department, in the sound maintenance department, but you've got to go to Gainsborough over at Islington." Which is a horrible studio [chuckles] opposite the 'Sunbeam' tobacco factory - but obviously I was delighted to no lo[…]

Larry Allen

[…]know, the main one...Rodney Giesler: Shepherd's Bush?Larry Allen: Ah, Shepherd's Bush. As a matter of fact, to tell the truth...Rodney Giesler: Where Gainsborough used to be?Larry Allen: That's right! Opposite the college isn't it? It's opposite the college.Rodney Giesler: That's right.Larry Allen: […]

Erica Masters

[…]Samuelson: And - I think then that that's interesting, that all those years ago was it the general rule that Ealing did not have people on staff like Gainsborough at Lime Grove had people on staff and Pinewood had people on staff.Erica Masters: I think that they had production managers on staff, I m[…]

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[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]r whoever it might be, to all one of the studios where we might be working. Sometimes I had to go on my own to to the studio, I remember going to the Gainsborough studios to shepherds, Bush to supervise a very nice pianist whose name I forgotten teaching somebody some star. It might have been the fa[…]
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