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[…] 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[…]

[…] years of making a great many of these Aldwych comedies with us, let's think 'Canaries Sometimes Sing', and many others. But of course he went off to Gaumont's and started directing on his own. But I think that was us it was always Herbert Wilcox that was directing it. 'Thark', that's another Aldwyc[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]