Search Results for: Gaumont-British

[…]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[…]

[…] off with Rome Express which I think I've mentioned before. But it was quite a happy place to work always, Shepherd's Bush.John Taylor: Was it called Gaumont-British in those days?Charles Wilder: No Gaumont Company Limited. And I remember at one time Leon Gaumont came over from France to visit the s[…]

[…]ng, so I looked around for something else that would use my zoology and would give me a satisfying life. And I had the greatest good luck to hit upon Gaumont-British Instructional, who at that time, were making a great number of natural history and zoological films under the guidance of Julian Huxle[…]

[…]Cole: Yeah sure, why not?Tom Peacock: So I would go. Now when I start reminiscing I get mixed up with Shepperton, Pinewood, Denham, Riverside Studio, Gaumont-British, Fox in Wembley, all the studios that I worked in you see. When they were busy I would nip in - MGM, and all that you see. But there w[…]

[…]Frankie (in the Army Kinematograph Service)George Rotner (BBC TV Newsreel Camera department)Rudy Cartier (TV producer)Steven Daid (Camera operator at Gaumont-British with Hitchcock) 

[…] departmental head then grabbed the editor’s credit) many of the Gaumont-British and Gainsborough comedies and ended a glorious career by […]

[…] 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[…]