[…]ole: Ah, same year as I was. Yes. So you got in - went in as an office boy. What was your first job? Where was it?Jack Rockett: In Denman Street with Gaumont company.Sidney Cole: Aha. And how long did you stay?Jack Rockett: Well I was there for - until Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was formed […]
[…]ere for the stills from 'The Sport of Kings' and all that sort of thing. Well, then it amalgamated with WNF, then there was another amalgamation with Gaumont. I survived all those, and finished up in Film House with Gaumont on the fifth floor, but publicity wasn't my forte at all actually. I used to[…]
[…] years of making a great many of these Aldwych comedies with us, let's think 'Canaries Sometimes Sing', and many others. But of course he went off to Gaumont's and started directing on his own. But I think that was us it was always Herbert Wilcox that was directing it. 'Thark', that's another Aldwyc[…]
[…]ter Peek got the sack and I stayed on! And after another - whatever it was - a year or nine months, I finally got a break into the cutting rooms with Gaumont-British Instructional, on the top floor of Lime Grove. And I made all the mistakes that you do when you're training to be an editor. Dropping […]
[…]go for Western." So the Western Electric...Bob Allen: Can I just interrupt there, just to clear up a little point for people listening - this was the Gaumont-British, or British Acoustics, rather...Mickey Hickey: The British Acoustics, yeah.Bob Allen: The British Acoustics system, which actually was[…]
[…]en hired a small teacher by a mobile Casa buddy. I said, Well, we've already got us studio, we've got the insert stage at the back of the Hammersmith Gaumont is quite big. We use it for all sorts of things, and raised there but it isn't soundproof, we can't possibly use it. We got to have dialogue. […]
[…]? Andy Worker: Yeah, hmm. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm, so in terms of production finance there was no problem? Andy Worker: No problem. GFD and Gaumont used to put up half each in those days. Roy Fowler: What kind of accountability was there? If the film went over budget was there conside[…]
