[…] we shall be appearing at the corner of the High Street and Market Road, featuring Harry Trubshaw on the steam roller.” And then he would do the Gaumont British News thing, da, da, da, diddly doo, trying to do a physical impression of all the people in all the quadrants of the old picture, you […]
[…]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[…]
