[…]t My Darling Clementine was shown, it was billed on the Odeon, Leicester Square, and at the same time Great Expectations, I think, was showing at the Gaumont and Powell and Pressburger, A Matter Of Life And Death maybe was on at Empire. And I remember choosing, and I don’t know why, to go and see My[…]
[…]e went down to Windsor and onto a boat or something like that. But everybody turned up. And this is Maurice Ostrer, because the Ostrer brothers owned Gaumont British. This is Maurice Ostrer, this was Ted Black the studio man, and these were make-up men, oh everybody's there! Lighting men, oh there's[…]
[…] until the depression; later he worked with Rank at Denham [tape ends mid-sentence]Side 200:00:00 – 00:10:33 Rank made religious films and bought the Gaumont circuit to show them; DD spent time in a Russian studio working with Anthony Asquith on a planned American-British co-production; Gorky Film S[…]
[…]! And he said to me, "There's a film being made by a German director called Wilhelm Tiele who directed some films in Germany...this was the time when Gaumont British and UFA were getting together. And we were, at this time, of course at Gainsborough studios in Poole Street. And Wilhelm Teile had mad[…]
[…]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[…]
