[…] early films. When Shepherds Bush closed down Birch moved to Gaumont British News as a dubbing mixer. He served in the RNVR […]
[…]o his job." And I thought "Good man."John Legard: That was great.Rodney Giesler: And of course Derek Mayne who was a much quieter guy. He was ex-GBI (Gaumont British Instructional). Quiet. Short. Unobtrusive. Left all the creative decisions to Jack and me. And kept at bay because we still had a migh[…]
[…]ound department at its inception, so I ran the British Instructional Films at Welwyn. And after I think about two years with them, the Sound Chief of Gaumont, George Gunn, he asked me if I would care to make a change. Well owing to travel difficulties I was rather tired of going to Welwyn Garden Cit[…]
[…] who was a much quieter guy. He was ex-GBI ( Gaumont British Instructional). Quiet. Short. Unobtrusive. Left all the creative […]
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[…] a little point for people listening - this was the Gaumont-British, or British Acoustics, rather... Mickey Hickey: The British Acoustics, […]
[…]ere for the stills from 'The Sport of Kings' and all that sort of thing. Well, then it amalgamated with WNF, then there was another amalgamation with Gaumont. I survived all those, and finished up in Film House with Gaumont on the fifth floor, but publicity wasn't my forte at all actually. I used to[…]
[…]er, cut out the activator, the carbonate and so forth, and gave my developing time a bit longer and we got a much better picture. Well, the next year Gaumont made a picture in Egypt and they shot Turnpenny off to Egypt to Cairo. Well, you see you hadn't got aeroplanes to bring the stuff back and the[…]