[…]s the De Forest patent, the AEO-light, which Movietone had acquired and it made sound newsreels possible. And when other newsreels started up such as Gaumont, Paramount, Pathe, they had much more clumsy equipment. Pathe had Visatone recording on a separate recorder instead of in the camera. The reco[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] he entered the film industry in the early 1930s at Gaumont-British under the apprenticeship scheme run by Ian Dalrymple. He […]
[…] Movietone, could he be friendly with somebody from Paramount or Gaumont British? Norman Fisher: Oh indeed. Roy Fowler: Yes, you were […]
[…] of Army service, Bill went into the dark-room at the Gaumont-British film lab in Shepherd’s Bush. His job was at […]
[…] been nuts but I didn’t anyway.And then, and I think it must have been after he left that he rang up and I couldn’t gobecause he was offered a job at Gaumont British Instructional and he went to work in the cutting rooms and the library was a lot duller.Was that Mary Fields?That’s right, yes, and he[…]
