John Turner

[…]d to satisfy him and I was one of the boys after that! That really - you know, during that period there was the abdication and the coronation of King George V1 and during that period I was just an assistant, I went with a cameraman, George Golding who was an expert on long focus lenses. Gaumont had […]

Gerry Humphreys

[…]man management skills if you put it that way of being able to get the ultimate out of a person, I think is tremendous.  The music he gets out of George Fenton, I think the best scores George Fenton does are for Dickie because Dickie loves the man one and this encouragement he gives a person……&n[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…]usiness. I must admit at the time I had been having several run ins with them AC DC AC DC was the. Ticket a union ticket who did not who did not with George Alvin.SPEAKER: M2And Co. So I couldn't get a ticket so I just carried on plugging away. One of the strangest things that happened to me when I […]

A F (Peter) Birch

[…]rtment at its inception, so I ran the British Instructional Films at Welwyn. And after I think about two years with them, the Sound Chief of Gaumont, George Gunn, he asked me if I would care to make a change. Well owing to travel difficulties I was rather tired of going to Welwyn Garden City and I t[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]imultaneously in the same day, we did something in the Nigerian forests which we discovered locational or somewhere else. We did Laura Georgia. Lloyd George's speech at the mansion house. And we were only given a scene for the day before David and I he had to build a set and I got him on to the cost[…]

John Dark

[…] one that was in the series that we made was directed by Vernon Sewell and he was making a second feature which I went on with him. And that was with George Maynard's and Vernon's company Cresswell Cresswell productions and I made a picture this close called rogue Sian but Derek Bond and the French […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]the American side as well. And the reason we can't get our comedy over in America is our films really never popular in America, our comedies, I think George Formby was reasonably popular in Canada and whatnot, but our comedies were never acceptable across the whole length and breadth of America, whe[…]
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