[…]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[…]
[…]  25:00  Yes,I do. Because there was a strong connection between this and what I subsequently did. I think the most interesting people were Gaumont British instructional, was then , headed up by Bruce Wolf, remember, and he  that he had no studio of his own at the time and used to use[…]
[…]or on itMaurice Carter: YesRoy Fowler: From here on you art director everything you work onMaurice Carter: YesRoy Fowler: Was it that Gainsborough or Gaumont BritishMaurice Carter: Gainsborough. The titles were pretty interchangeable then I think, it maywell have been Gaumont, it may have been a Gau[…]
[…]d anybody else with you on that at all, or were you....David Prosser: John Turner, whom you may remember...Alan Lawson: Oh yes, yes.David Prosser: of Gaumont and I, um.... John was originally going to participate in it, and he did do several shots for me, but we used to alternately direct, or, um, l[…]
[…]in saying that Pinewood was the first studio in this country if could even have been in the world for all I know, too. adopted. It was made for us by Gaumont Kaylee and I can remember that when the equipment was delivered we didn't think that there's been designed right and altered it. Gaumont Kalee[…]
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[…]that was the first sound film made at the Bush. Maurice Elvey was the director, Jameson Thomas and Benita Hume, Humberston Wright and the rest of the Gaumont repertory company were in that. I was still, I think by that time I'd been upgraded, I was no longer the number boy, 1 was the first assistant[…]
[…]ercial and no good. And the way he could insist on Del being no good was that, in those days, the Rank Organisation owned two circuits, the Odeon and Gaumont. And if Del made a film, John Davis would put it in the worst cinema at the worst time of the year to do it down. He would put it in Warringto[…]
[…]rles let's start from the beginning...Charles Wilder: Well I first went to Shepherd's Bush in 1924.Margaret Thomson: Yes.Charles Wilder: That was the Gaumont Company. And um...Margaret Thomson: How old would you be then?Charles Wilder: Fourteen.Margaret Thomson: Good heavens, really?Charles Wilder: […]
[…]ph Bond: Well it would be useful.Alf Tunwell: Well there was er, British Movietone News, there was Pathe Gazette, there was Universal News, there was Gaumont News, there was Paramount News and Topical Budget were either just in or just out, I'm not quite sure. They were just going out, fading out, o[…]
