[…]nglander: Well as I say I started off at Stoll's as a clapper boy and progressed to first assistant. I left Stoll's after about 12 months and went to Gaumont's, Gaumont British at Lime Grove. I was there at Lime Grove until the sort of crash came, the general film industry crash in 1936, when we wer[…]
[…]purposes and had been to university and fought with some distinction in the First World War worked for Mick at  Ealing and indeed before then at Gaumont. And it's quite amusing that there was I understand at the old Gaumont  Studios, a long corridor, which was known as the Polish Corridor […]
[…]was a complement recognition for the way I had performed during my training induction period with Ted. The Manchester City Centre units comprised The Gaumont (a roadshow type, separate performances operation akin to much of the Clerk Street unit’s operation), the Odeon (mainstream continuous perform[…]
[…]ere for the stills from 'The Sport of Kings' and all that sort of thing. Well, then it amalgamated with WNF, then there was another amalgamation with Gaumont. I survived all those, and finished up in Film House with Gaumont on the fifth floor, but publicity wasn't my forte at all actually. I used to[…]
[…]ole: Ah, same year as I was. Yes. So you got in - went in as an office boy. What was your first job? Where was it?Jack Rockett: In Denman Street with Gaumont company.Sidney Cole: Aha. And how long did you stay?Jack Rockett: Well I was there for - until Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was formed […]
[…]er, cut out the activator, the carbonate and so forth, and gave my developing time a bit longer and we got a much better picture. Well, the next year Gaumont made a picture in Egypt and they shot Turnpenny off to Egypt to Cairo. Well, you see you hadn't got aeroplanes to bring the stuff back and the[…]
[…]re the years when Hitchcock was more or less a journeyman director...E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well Hitch left about the first or second year to go to Gaumont. And he did - he took with him a very extrovert character who was First Assistant called Dicky Beville who'd been in the Navy in the First Wor[…]
[…]ound department at its inception, so I ran the British Instructional Films at Welwyn. And after I think about two years with them, the Sound Chief of Gaumont, George Gunn, he asked me if I would care to make a change. Well owing to travel difficulties I was rather tired of going to Welwyn Garden Cit[…]
[…], that's about all, and I felt that the second year was almost a waste of time. The only thing is that Bernstein at the end of it said, "If you go to Gaumont British you'll get a job, I'll give you a job there." Lime Grove you see. So [chuckles] I went to Gaumont British, Lime Grove, and I was the f[…]
