[…]g as they came up and one day !was called in to Clifford Jeakes' office and told not to come back on Monday morning but to goacross Wardour Street to Gaumont British News and I, Crockett, my camera and our car weresuddenly employed by Gaumont British and Universal folded. Everybody got the sack with[…]
[…]awley's of High Street'], I remember, for a comedian at British International. Eventually my contract finished, and so did Hitch's. And Hitch went to Gaumont-British where they said, "What do you want to make?" He said, "Well, there's this story about 'Bulldog Drummond's Baby', but we can't get Bull[…]
[…]ng, so I looked around for something else that would use my zoology and would give me a satisfying life. And I had the greatest good luck to hit upon Gaumont-British Instructional, who at that time, were making a great number of natural history and zoological films under the guidance of Julian Huxle[…]
[…]Cole: Yeah sure, why not?Tom Peacock: So I would go. Now when I start reminiscing I get mixed up with Shepperton, Pinewood, Denham, Riverside Studio, Gaumont-British, Fox in Wembley, all the studios that I worked in you see. When they were busy I would nip in - MGM, and all that you see. But there w[…]
[…]that was the first sound film made at the Bush. Maurice Elvey was the director, Jameson Thomas and Benita Hume, Humberston Wright and the rest of the Gaumont repertory company were in that. I was still, I think by that time I'd been upgraded, I was no longer the number boy, 1 was the first assistant[…]
[…]deon in Morecombe which is the very cinema he opened in 1937.00:06:36       I went for a further interview at the Gaumont in Preston with a man called Roy Mason who was a Northern regional controller, and he gave me a job in Bradford as the trainee assistant manag[…]
[…]rles let's start from the beginning...Charles Wilder: Well I first went to Shepherd's Bush in 1924.Margaret Thomson: Yes.Charles Wilder: That was the Gaumont Company. And um...Margaret Thomson: How old would you be then?Charles Wilder: Fourteen.Margaret Thomson: Good heavens, really?Charles Wilder: […]
[…]ph Bond: Well it would be useful.Alf Tunwell: Well there was er, British Movietone News, there was Pathe Gazette, there was Universal News, there was Gaumont News, there was Paramount News and Topical Budget were either just in or just out, I'm not quite sure. They were just going out, fading out, o[…]
[…]pier’s motor cars in Acton, splicing ropes for army tents in White City, at an artificers’ guild; used to visit the cinema two or three times a week; Gaumont was a big glass studio in those days; he visited the studio to ask for a job, in photography, and was told to start the next day in the labora[…]
