Search Results for: Gaumont British News

[…]e, and food. It never struck me that it was going to lead to a life, and as I worked with some of the finest lighting cameramen in the world, because Gaumonts had German, French, Japanese, all nationalities working as lighting cameramen.DB. Did you know Freddie Young?PS. Freddie Young had the reputa[…]

[…] he entered the film industry in the early 1930s at Gaumont-British under the apprenticeship scheme run by Ian Dalrymple. 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 […]

[…]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[…]