[…] What were the cinemas like, and how much did you have to pay to get in?Dicky Leeman: Well I can remember, at a later period when I was an actor, the Gaumont-British up in Kilburn - because I lived in Golders Green - if it was a very wet day, I would go round the agents looking for a job, and then i[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ole: Ah, same year as I was. Yes. So you got in - went in as an office boy. What was your first job? Where was it?Jack Rockett: In Denman Street with Gaumont company.Sidney Cole: Aha. And how long did you stay?Jack Rockett: Well I was there for - until Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was formed […]
[…]r would have been for each issue?Reg Sutton: I can't remember off hand. I've got a feeling it was probably about 200 because we showed at some of the Gaumont cinemas and Gaumont, we showed at half the Gaumont cinemas, Gaumont showed at the other half, And the reason being that the Gaumont Cinemas we[…]
[…]en hired a small teacher by a mobile Casa buddy. I said, Well, we've already got us studio, we've got the insert stage at the back of the Hammersmith Gaumont is quite big. We use it for all sorts of things, and raised there but it isn't soundproof, we can't possibly use it. We got to have dialogue. […]
[…]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[…]
[…] of reasons. One was that he was obviously someone prepared to learn in all sorts of ways from experience. I didn't know him when he was in charge at Gaumont in the days of Victor Saville and Alfred Hitchcock at the Lush but I have a feeling that the influence of people like Ivor Who worked for him […]
