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[…]re the years when Hitchcock was more or less a journeyman director...E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well Hitch left about the first or second year to go to Gaumont. And he did - he took with him a very extrovert character who was First Assistant called Dicky Beville who'd been in the Navy in the First Wor[…]

[…]purposes and had been to university and fought with some distinction in the First World War worked for Mick at  Ealing and indeed before then at Gaumont. And it's quite amusing that there was I understand at the old Gaumont  Studios, a long corridor, which was known as the Polish Corridor […]

[…] as are his experiences working in Britain at BIP and Gaumont British. Bennett's Hollywood career is covered more fitfully, but he […]

[…] we shall be appearing at the corner of the High Street and Market Road, featuring Harry Trubshaw on the steam roller.” And then he would do the Gaumont British News thing, da, da, da, diddly doo, trying to do a physical impression of all the people in all the quadrants of the old picture, you […]

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]

[…] and the continuation of sponsored training initiatives, major cinema chain Gaumont set up schools for women operators across Britain, with […]

[…] the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, and then began at the Gaumont British Shepherd’s Bush studios as a clapper-loader. He worked at […]

[…]awley's of High Street'], I remember, for a comedian at British International. Eventually my contract finished, and so did Hitch's. And Hitch went to Gaumont-British where they said, "What do you want to make?" He said, "Well, there's this story about 'Bulldog Drummond's Baby', but we can't get Bull[…]

[…]t My Darling Clementine was shown, it was billed on the Odeon, Leicester Square, and at the same time Great Expectations, I think, was showing at the Gaumont and Powell and Pressburger, A Matter Of Life And Death maybe was on at Empire. And I remember choosing, and I don’t know why, to go and see My[…]