Kitty Wood (Morrison)

[…]ed to me that I might try going to see if I could get into the film industry. And my, sort of, guardian - my mother's solicitor - was a solicitor for Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. And he wrote to Bruce Woolfe and Bruce Woolfe of Gaumont-British Instructional interviewed me and eventually agre[…]

Mickey Hickey

[…] a little point for people listening - this was the Gaumont-British, or British Acoustics, rather... Mickey Hickey: The British Acoustics, […]

Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

[…]ter Peek got the sack and I stayed on! And after another - whatever it was - a year or nine months, I finally got a break into the cutting rooms with Gaumont-British Instructional, on the top floor of Lime Grove. And I made all the mistakes that you do when you're training to be an editor. Dropping […]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]or Western." So the Western Electric... Bob Allen: Can I just interrupt there, just to clear up a little point for people listening - this was the Gaumont-British, or British Acoustics, rather... Mickey Hickey: The British Acoustics, yeah. Bob Allen: The British Acoustics system, which actu[…]

A F (Peter) Birch

[…]e BBC - pastures new". I went back to Gaumont, you see. That was more to my liking. And of course they immediately gave me a sound chief's job in the Gaumont-British Instructional Films. I'd already been in ordinary British Instructional Films, which was distinct from Gaumont.Alan Lawson : Bruce Woo[…]
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