[…]ollowing film, The Ghost Camera. I had seen some unusual cutting on a newsreel, was it either British Movietone or um...Sidney Cole: Yes - no, he was Gaumont British.Bernard Vorhaus: Gaumont British that's right. And er - I wanted to find out who was doing this. And it didn't worry me about giving a[…]
[…]ersity Film Unit also had meetings where they would get hold of people to talk to us.  And I got hold of Hugh Gray, who was the research at Gaumont British at Shepherds Bush.  And it was through him that I was able to do anything at all on films because there's no training, no wa[…]
[…] 7:38  Now Oswell Blakeston, Harry Hasslacher in fact was his real name, he was a, he was the camera department of the of the original Gaumont set-up at Lime Grove. And he became first editor of "Close Up" and he was called Oswell because he'd invented the name. And he he told me[…]
[…]And it has a sequel later on, which we'll be talking about. But, during that period, there was the big strike which brought out all the theatres, the Gaumonts, the Granadas, everything. All shut down because projectionists were pulled out on strike by the ETU, which was the organiser for projectioni[…]
[…]s the De Forest patent, the AEO-light, which Movietone had acquired and it made sound newsreels possible. And when other newsreels started up such as Gaumont, Paramount, Pathe, they had much more clumsy equipment. Pathe had Visatone recording on a separate recorder instead of in the camera. The reco[…]
