[…] of Army service, Bill went into the dark-room at the Gaumont-British film lab in Shepherd’s Bush. His job was at […]
[…] been nuts but I didn’t anyway.And then, and I think it must have been after he left that he rang up and I couldn’t gobecause he was offered a job at Gaumont British Instructional and he went to work in the cutting rooms and the library was a lot duller.Was that Mary Fields?That’s right, yes, and he[…]
[…]for me, which was a little bit it wasn't it wasn't much but it sparked the whole business off, you know, and he's got me a job. As an apprentice with Gaumont British that the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, which was in the largest in modern Europe.And 3000 seater, and I worked for the UN I put out in the […]
[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
[…]were all that keen. They thought my education was all rather wasted. During the course of business my father met Castleton Knight who was the head of Gaumont British News, quite a character, an extraordinary chap. He did a lot of extraordinary publicity stunts at a time when newsreels were in enormo[…]