[…]o his job." And I thought "Good man."John Legard: That was great.Rodney Giesler: And of course Derek Mayne who was a much quieter guy. He was ex-GBI (Gaumont British Instructional). Quiet. Short. Unobtrusive. Left all the creative decisions to Jack and me. And kept at bay because we still had a migh[…]
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[…]shall Page 49That’s the winding up, I see. Alright. Well, then I was only going to say that the hierarchy of Bruce Woolfe, that he was GBI [Gaumont British Instructional], Diagram Films, then Scientific Films and his brother, Willy Woolfe, had something to do with Scientific Films. And som[…]
[…]bsp; 24:35  That's when he is still independent and it's Gainsborough.  Jill Balcon  24:40  I think it's Gaumont British by then. Roy Fowler  24:41   Well 31 I'm not sure I'm not sure. I thought Gaumont British was a little l[…]
[…]rtita Hunt, Enid Stamp-Taylor - they were all before me, but they are all old girls, and Dora Nahabidian[?] who was in the film industry - she was at Gaumont-British in the thirties. Quite a lot of people sort of impinging that I've tracked down down the years. And while I was there, we put on a pla[…]
[…]er, cut out the activator, the carbonate and so forth, and gave my developing time a bit longer and we got a much better picture. Well, the next year Gaumont made a picture in Egypt and they shot Turnpenny off to Egypt to Cairo. Well, you see you hadn't got aeroplanes to bring the stuff back and the[…]
[…]g as they came up and one day !was called in to Clifford Jeakes' office and told not to come back on Monday morning but to goacross Wardour Street to Gaumont British News and I, Crockett, my camera and our car weresuddenly employed by Gaumont British and Universal folded. Everybody got the sack with[…]
[…]h your existing rank plus time-out." So I took it. I came out of the Navy just before the invasion, which was silly really. And then I got a job with Gaumont. Now, it was very highly paid and I had - the programme was arranged, the films - the three films I was going to make in the first year. 'Hous[…]
