Harry Miller

[…] oh …ALAN LAWSON: Didn’t everyone have a hand in that?HARRY MILLER: Well, not really, er, lots of people did, but he used to be either an Ealing or a Gaumont director, didn’t he?ALAN LAWSON: I can’t think who it was.HARRY MILLER: Because I remember I was given this job to do…ALAN LAWSON: Alex produc[…]

Adolph Simon

[…]ve enterprise, was it not? 00:30:50​ADOLPH:​Yes. â€‹Q:​Can you tell us about … 00:30:52​ADOLPH:​You see you had a, you had Pathé, Gaum-, Gaumont, Paramount, and Universal. â€‹Q:​And Movietone. 00:31:09​ADOLPH:​Yes. â€‹Q:​And all these newsreels were very much in competition w[…]

Chris Strachan

[…];So what was the equipment they used then in those early days, Chris Strachan  7:07   I think the first projector was a Gaumont Chrono projector. And, of course, there was only one projector, and at the end of every 10 minute reel, there would be a break, and this was a[…]

Cy Young

[…]ears ago I think it was the Barbados Broadcasting Corporation BBC only thing it ran which I'm currently in commonwealth countries telerecording was a British television programs. They're still finding them returning them you know all the businesses that come along. The dust is being pushed out. So t[…]

Nigel Wolland

[…]ou said things began to change.Speaker 2  8:12  Yes 64 I was at Surbiton then i i was asked if I would go to the Odeon. Chelsea was the old Gaumont Palace but it was still it was renamed the Odeon. And six months later, I closed that cinema. And then I went back out on relief again for a w[…]

Mike Hodges

[…]as odd. I mean, first of all, the whole time that I was living in Salisbury, there were three cinemas there in those days, the ABC, the Regal and the Gaumont. And it was during a period, when you had some really amazing British films being made. There's Powell and Pressburger - there's another inter[…]
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