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[…] early films. When Shepherds Bush closed down Birch moved to Gaumont British News as a dubbing mixer. He served in the […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] Tape 1, Side 2 Fowler/Lawson: In those early days of Gaumont British at the Bush, what kind of pressures were on […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ound department at its inception, so I ran the British Instructional Films at Welwyn. And after I think about two years with them, the Sound Chief of Gaumont, George Gunn, he asked me if I would care to make a change. Well owing to travel difficulties I was rather tired of going to Welwyn Garden Cit[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] was silly really. And then I got a job with Gaumont. Now, it was very highly paid and I had […]
