[…]e, and food. It never struck me that it was going to lead to a life, and as I worked with some of the finest lighting cameramen in the world, because Gaumonts had German, French, Japanese, all nationalities working as lighting cameramen.DB. Did you know Freddie Young?PS. Freddie Young had the reputa[…]
[…] of Army service, Bill went into the dark-room at the Gaumont-British film lab in Shepherd’s Bush. His job was at […]
[…] What were the cinemas like, and how much did you have to pay to get in?Dicky Leeman: Well I can remember, at a later period when I was an actor, the Gaumont-British up in Kilburn - because I lived in Golders Green - if it was a very wet day, I would go round the agents looking for a job, and then i[…]
[…]ud: So I was beginning to get a bit fed up with it, so I started walking around looking for jobs and I finally landed myself with an interview at the Gaumont, Camden Town. Where they had 'Clover Leaves' it was a really super show you know, it was a really pucker place, I thought, "Well this is it," […]
[…]for me, which was a little bit it wasn't it wasn't much but it sparked the whole business off, you know, and he's got me a job. As an apprentice with Gaumont British that the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, which was in the largest in modern Europe.And 3000 seater, and I worked for the UN I put out in the […]
[…]or on itMaurice Carter: YesRoy Fowler: From here on you art director everything you work onMaurice Carter: YesRoy Fowler: Was it that Gainsborough or Gaumont BritishMaurice Carter: Gainsborough. The titles were pretty interchangeable then I think, it maywell have been Gaumont, it may have been a Gau[…]
[…]e Hall at all.JS: Go on, I want to find out about how people get educated musically.RA: After that, I wanted to be a film director and I think it was Gaumont British offered a course for £100 where you could be an apprentice and I put this to my father and he refused to allow this because we had a h[…]
