[…]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[…]
[…] [21:35 mins] Growing up: first job at newspaper; starting at Gaumont British News; first job as a cameraman; learning to […]
[…] Assistant, and Assistant Director at a variety of studios, including Gaumont British, MGM British, and for more cut-price producers such […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] July 1908. He began as an office boy with the Gaumont company in Denham Street. By 1934 he was working […]
[…] — last modified Apr 18, 2008 03:54 PM 1930s - Gaumont British newsreel cameraman 1940s - War correspondent - Naval […]
[…] the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, and then began at the Gaumont British Shepherd’s Bush studios as a clapper-loader. He worked […]
