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[…] entered the film industry as a page boy at the Gaumont-British Studios at Lime Grove (Shepherd’s Bush) at the age […]

[…]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[…]

[…] — last modified Apr 18, 2008 03:54 PM 1930s - Gaumont British newsreel cameraman 1940s - War correspondent - Naval correspondent, […]

[…] and many others. But of course he went off to Gaumont's and started directing on his own. But I think […]

[…] there was Pathe Gazette, there was Universal News, there was Gaumont News, th ere was Paramount News and Topical Budget […]

[…] very important that it should be understood, it was not Gaumont British it was the Gaumont Film Company, it wasn 't […]

[…]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[…]

[…] 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[…]