[…]in saying that Pinewood was the first studio in this country if could even have been in the world for all I know, too. adopted. It was made for us by Gaumont Kaylee and I can remember that when the equipment was delivered we didn't think that there's been designed right and altered it. Gaumont Kalee[…]
[…]were all that keen. They thought my education was all rather wasted. During the course of business my father met Castleton Knight who was the head of Gaumont British News, quite a character, an extraordinary chap. He did a lot of extraordinary publicity stunts at a time when newsreels were in enormo[…]
[…]rtita Hunt, Enid Stamp-Taylor - they were all before me, but they are all old girls, and Dora Nahabidian[?] who was in the film industry - she was at Gaumont-British in the thirties. Quite a lot of people sort of impinging that I've tracked down down the years. And while I was there, we put on a pla[…]
[…]4, the CTBF was founded.Roy Fowler : Right, and that was directly a result of Friese-Greene dying in straits, in privation?Ella Mallett : Yes, in the Gaumont rooms[?], yes. It was very sad.Roy Fowler : Very sad - disgraceful.Ella Mallett : It is disgraceful. And sometimes when I hear them grumble no[…]
[…]ependents and the circuits but we had a special circuits department who dealt with them but even at that stage you had the Odeon circuit, you had the Gaumont circuit, both of which were owned by the Rank Organisation, and of course the ABC circuit. So those were your main three circuits. There were […]
[…]interrupts] Oh, it doesn't matter...Cyril Page: Jack Cox? Jack Cox?...Alan Lawson: Oh, really?!...Cyril Page: Jack Cox, yes. Jack Cox. And he went to Gaumont's, er...er Lime Grove and I worked there...Um...I really...My mind baffles with so many...Alan Lawson: [interrupts] Yes...yes...Cyril Page: ..[…]
[…]duction properly," see? Well a friend of mine who is a big noise in the film world - later he was - he was then, and his father was a big director in Gaumont-British. And this friend of mine, we were young, almost kids together, I knew him well and his name was Hughie Orr, and if you get the Childre[…]
[…]go for Western." So the Western Electric...Bob Allen: Can I just interrupt there, just to clear up a little point for people listening - this was the Gaumont-British, or British Acoustics, rather...Mickey Hickey: The British Acoustics, yeah.Bob Allen: The British Acoustics system, which actually was[…]
