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[…] until the depression; later he worked with Rank at Denham [tape ends mid-sentence]Side 200:00:00 – 00:10:33 Rank made religious films and bought the Gaumont circuit to show them; DD spent time in a Russian studio working with Anthony Asquith on a planned American-British co-production; Gorky Film S[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]e order of events, but I certainly at some point along the line there, I did some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I really remember, it was recruiting ACT […]

[…]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 […]

[…]r coming out of the RAF. And er, I've been here ever since...Jim Shields: You were a dubbing mixer then were you?Maurice Askew: We were over at G-BI [Gaumont British Instructional] at the time...Jim Shields: Yes, that was what decided, was it?Maurice Askew: Hmm. I hadn't had - you know I'd been a so[…]

[…]e went down to Windsor and onto a boat or something like that. But everybody turned up. And this is Maurice Ostrer, because the Ostrer brothers owned Gaumont British. This is Maurice Ostrer, this was Ted Black the studio man, and these were make-up men, oh everybody's there! Lighting men, oh there's[…]