[…] entered the film industry as a page boy at the Gaumont-British Studios at Lime Grove (Shepherd’s Bush) at the age […]
[…]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 […]
[…] as a regional stock-taker and occasional mobile manager for the Gaumont-British circuit. He had become an ‘internal auditor’ around the […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ere 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 in 1930.Sidney Cole: And that was just when things were changing over to sound.Jack Rockett: That's rig[…]