[…]ere for the stills from 'The Sport of Kings' and all that sort of thing. Well, then it amalgamated with WNF, then there was another amalgamation with Gaumont. I survived all those, and finished up in Film House with Gaumont on the fifth floor, but publicity wasn't my forte at all actually. I used to[…]
[…]ole: Ah, same year as I was. Yes. So you got in - went in as an office boy. What was your first job? Where was it?Jack Rockett: In Denman Street with Gaumont company.Sidney Cole: Aha. And how long did you stay?Jack Rockett: Well I was there for - until Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was formed […]
[…]er, cut out the activator, the carbonate and so forth, and gave my developing time a bit longer and we got a much better picture. Well, the next year Gaumont made a picture in Egypt and they shot Turnpenny off to Egypt to Cairo. Well, you see you hadn't got aeroplanes to bring the stuff back and the[…]
[…] early films. When Shepherds Bush closed down Birch moved to Gaumont British News as a dubbing mixer. He served in […]
[…] we got a much better picture. Well, the next year Gaumont made a picture in Egypt and they shot Turnpenny […]
[…]ound department at its inception, so I ran the British Instructional Films at Welwyn. And after I think about two years with them, the Sound Chief of Gaumont, George Gunn, he asked me if I would care to make a change. Well owing to travel difficulties I was rather tired of going to Welwyn Garden Cit[…]
[…], that's about all, and I felt that the second year was almost a waste of time. The only thing is that Bernstein at the end of it said, "If you go to Gaumont British you'll get a job, I'll give you a job there." Lime Grove you see. So [chuckles] I went to Gaumont British, Lime Grove, and I was the f[…]
[…] as are his experiences working in Britain at BIP and Gaumont British. Bennett's Hollywood career is covered more fitfully, but […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
