[…] was silly really. And then I got a job with Gaumont. Now, it was very highly paid and I had […]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] days, the Rank Organisation owned two circuits, the Odeon and Gaumont. And if Del made a film, John Davis would […]
[…] July 1908. He began as an office boy with the Gaumont company in Denham Street. By 1934 he was working […]
[…]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[…]