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[…]duction properly," see? Well a friend of mine who is a big noise in the film world - later he was - he was then, and his father was a big director in Gaumont-British. And this friend of mine, we were young, almost kids together, I knew him well and his name was Hughie Orr, and if you get the Childre[…]

[…], one's called Sid. I can't think the other person name, but the cinemas that they had was theAlbert Critoph  30:51  cinema in Kilburn, the Gaumont  state Kilburn, theTrocette at Tower road. Big cinema down in Mile End Road, I can't think name of it,Albert Critoph  31:04  an[…]

[…] of reasons. One was that he was obviously someone prepared to learn in all sorts of ways from experience. I didn't know him when he was in charge at Gaumont in the days of Victor Saville and Alfred Hitchcock at the Lush but I have a feeling that the influence of people like Ivor Who worked for him […]

[…]Cole: Yeah sure, why not?Tom Peacock: So I would go. Now when I start reminiscing I get mixed up with Shepperton, Pinewood, Denham, Riverside Studio, Gaumont-British, Fox in Wembley, all the studios that I worked in you see. When they were busy I would nip in - MGM, and all that you see. But there w[…]

[…]r would have been for each issue?Reg Sutton: I can't remember off hand. I've got a feeling it was probably about 200 because we showed at some of the Gaumont cinemas and Gaumont, we showed at half the Gaumont cinemas, Gaumont showed at the other half, And the reason being that the Gaumont Cinemas we[…]

[…]pier’s motor cars in Acton, splicing ropes for army tents in White City, at an artificers’ guild; used to visit the cinema two or three times a week; Gaumont was a big glass studio in those days; he visited the studio to ask for a job, in photography, and was told to start the next day in the labora[…]

[…] What were the cinemas like, and how much did you have to pay to get in?Dicky Leeman: Well I can remember, at a later period when I was an actor, the Gaumont-British up in Kilburn - because I lived in Golders Green - if it was a very wet day, I would go round the agents looking for a job, and then i[…]