[…]; as a child he used to play 9.5mm films borrowed from a local film library; his interest started when he was twelve; the local cinemas were the ABC, Gaumont and Odeon and BN would see every programme each week; he recalls seeing Metropolis on 9.5mm from the library at Burnt Oak (three 100ft reels o[…]
[…]as odd. I mean, first of all, the whole time that I was living in Salisbury, there were three cinemas there in those days, the ABC, the Regal and the Gaumont. And it was during a period, when you had some really amazing British films being made. There's Powell and Pressburger - there's another inter[…]
[…] been nuts but I didn’t anyway.And then, and I think it must have been after he left that he rang up and I couldn’t gobecause he was offered a job at Gaumont British Instructional and he went to work in the cutting rooms and the library was a lot duller.Was that Mary Fields?That’s right, yes, and he[…]
[…]ercial and no good. And the way he could insist on Del being no good was that, in those days, the Rank Organisation owned two circuits, the Odeon and Gaumont. And if Del made a film, John Davis would put it in the worst cinema at the worst time of the year to do it down. He would put it in Warringto[…]
[…]o his job." And I thought "Good man."John Legard: That was great.Rodney Giesler: And of course Derek Mayne who was a much quieter guy. He was ex-GBI (Gaumont British Instructional). Quiet. Short. Unobtrusive. Left all the creative decisions to Jack and me. And kept at bay because we still had a migh[…]
[…]eless information but information. And during this on one of my holidays I scrounged a visit to, I've forgotten the dear old publicity man's name, at Gaumont British in Lime Grove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych […]
[…] didHugh Attwooll 13:29 not really know. He was a very good cameraman And heSid Cole 13:32 only made one very good picture of Gaumont I tried to recall it was about a haunted house. But he worked. He was a good TV director.Hugh Attwooll 13:50 Yeah, probably yes. Y[…]
[…]en hired a small teacher by a mobile Casa buddy. I said, Well, we've already got us studio, we've got the insert stage at the back of the Hammersmith Gaumont is quite big. We use it for all sorts of things, and raised there but it isn't soundproof, we can't possibly use it. We got to have dialogue. […]
[…]r coming out of the RAF. And er, I've been here ever since...Jim Shields: You were a dubbing mixer then were you?Maurice Askew: We were over at G-BI [Gaumont British Instructional] at the time...Jim Shields: Yes, that was what decided, was it?Maurice Askew: Hmm. I hadn't had - you know I'd been a so[…]
