[…]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[…]
[…] there was Pathe Gazette, there was Universal News, there was Gaumont News, th ere was Paramount News and Topical Budget […]
[…]erever they needed you?Barry Quinton: Yes, all the cinemas I worked in all belonged to the Rank Organisation. They were either the Odeons or the Gaumonts and I moved then on to the Gaumont. I moved back to Finchley at the Gaumont Tally Ho Corner.Interviewer: And what memories, were you sti[…]
[…]little bits and pieces which I did...I: Right
CB: and Chick. That was the one when I was noticed as being like Clara Bow you know. That was made at Gaumont British.I: Right and some major names on that: Victor Saville 14 was the producer...CB: He was. And Edwin Greenwood 15 was the director
I: Y[…]
[…] like Clara Bow you know . That was made at Gaumont British . I: Right and some major names on […]
[…] was silly really. And then I got a job with Gaumont. Now, it was very highly paid and I had […]