[…]was a complement recognition for the way I had performed during my training induction period with Ted. The Manchester City Centre units comprised The Gaumont (a roadshow type, separate performances operation akin to much of the Clerk Street unit’s operation), the Odeon (mainstream continuous perform[…]
[…] we shall be appearing at the corner of the High Street and Market Road, featuring Harry Trubshaw on the steam roller.” And then he would do the Gaumont British News thing, da, da, da, diddly doo, trying to do a physical impression of all the people in all the quadrants of the old picture, you […]
[…] Page: Jack Cox, yes. Jack Cox. And he went to Gaumont's, er...er Lime Grove and I worked there...Um...I really...My mind […]
[…]interrupts] Oh, it doesn't matter...Cyril Page: Jack Cox? Jack Cox?...Alan Lawson: Oh, really?!...Cyril Page: Jack Cox, yes. Jack Cox. And he went to Gaumont's, er...er Lime Grove and I worked there...Um...I really...My mind baffles with so many...Alan Lawson: [interrupts] Yes...yes...Cyril Page: ..[…]
[…]purposes and had been to university and fought with some distinction in the First World War worked for Mick at Ealing and indeed before then at Gaumont. And it's quite amusing that there was I understand at the old Gaumont Studios, a long corridor, which was known as the Polish Corridor […]
[…]re the years when Hitchcock was more or less a journeyman director...E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well Hitch left about the first or second year to go to Gaumont. And he did - he took with him a very extrovert character who was First Assistant called Dicky Beville who'd been in the Navy in the First Wor[…]
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[…]g as they came up and one day !was called in to Clifford Jeakes' office and told not to come back on Monday morning but to goacross Wardour Street to Gaumont British News and I, Crockett, my camera and our car weresuddenly employed by Gaumont British and Universal folded. Everybody got the sack with[…]
[…] the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, and then began at the Gaumont British Shepherd’s Bush studios as a clapper-loader. He worked […]
