[…]lyGordon Hales  41:07  No that when Cavalcanti left Ian Dalrymple was brought in who was a highly professional former supervising editor of Gaumont  British and then a writer for Korda and who actually directed a film with John Mills I can't remember its title  as a feature film […]
[…]? Andy Worker: Yeah, hmm. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm, so in terms of production finance there was no problem? Andy Worker: No problem. GFD and Gaumont used to put up half each in those days. Roy Fowler: What kind of accountability was there? If the film went over budget was there conside[…]
[…]gs- Crazy Gang - and Inspector Hornleigh which was ‘41. My, I really moved to the Bush in 38 I think.RF: Do you know what the reason for that was.VG: Gaumont, or the Bush, had not been making money, Gainsborough was the one which was. Mick Baleen left and that left a big enormous place almost empty […]
[…]ecretary to a couple of the legal department. And while I was there I met a very nice woman called Miss Fisher, who had worked with Michael Balcon at Gaumont, and she was a reader. And she knew what I wanted to do and she was very sympathetic and she said ‘Why don't you write to him and say that I’v[…]
[…]shall Page 49That’s the winding up, I see. Alright. Well, then I was only going to say that the hierarchy of Bruce Woolfe, that he was GBI [Gaumont British Instructional], Diagram Films, then Scientific Films and his brother, Willy Woolfe, had something to do with Scientific Films. And som[…]
[…]sp;ora good cast, but it got me working for Ian Dalrymple.Dalrymple had been at Gaumont before the war.Yes, he knew me a little, and he had been head of Cr[…]
[…]e order of events, but I certainly at some point along the line there, I did some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I really remember, it was recruiting ACT […]
[…] oh …ALAN LAWSON: Didn’t everyone have a hand in that?HARRY MILLER: Well, not really, er, lots of people did, but he used to be either an Ealing or a Gaumont director, didn’t he?ALAN LAWSON: I can’t think who it was.HARRY MILLER: Because I remember I was given this job to do…ALAN LAWSON: Alex produc[…]
[…] of reasons. One was that he was obviously someone prepared to learn in all sorts of ways from experience. I didn't know him when he was in charge at Gaumont in the days of Victor Saville and Alfred Hitchcock at the Lush but I have a feeling that the influence of people like Ivor Who worked for him […]
[…] 7:38  Now Oswell Blakeston, Harry Hasslacher in fact was his real name, he was a, he was the camera department of the of the original Gaumont set-up at Lime Grove. And he became first editor of "Close Up" and he was called Oswell because he'd invented the name. And he he told me[…]
