[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] sometimes an interlude depending on the length of the film. Eventually when they turfed me out after a long time, to go around to all their cinemas, Gaumont British. And then I had the chance to play these big jobs that came up, I went all over London, I went up to the North, the big cinemas there,[…]
[…]! And he said to me, "There's a film being made by a German director called Wilhelm Tiele who directed some films in Germany...this was the time when Gaumont British and UFA were getting together. And we were, at this time, of course at Gainsborough studios in Poole Street. And Wilhelm Teile had mad[…]