[…]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[…]
[…] was then, and his father was a big director in Gaumont-British. And this friend of mine, we were young, almost […]
[…] a little point for people listening - this was the Gaumont -British, or British Acoustics, rather... Mickey Hickey: The British […]
[…] a little point for people listening - this was the Gaumont-British, or British Acoustics, rather... Mickey Hickey: The British Acoustics, […]
[…] in straits, in privation? Ella Mallett : Yes, in the Gaumont rooms[?], yes. It was very sad. Roy Fowler : […]
[…] was despatched by Mick Balcon to Berlin to act as Gaumont’s unpaid contact on the English language version of an […]
