Kinematograph Year Book 1942 (1942)
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The Kinematograph Year Book.
Denham Studios,
All Western Electric Sound Recording apparatus. Four Western Electric mobile sound recording trucks. Five Way Western Electric dubbing channel. Equipped with latest models Mitchsll and Debrie sound, silent and high speed cameras. Latest model camera cranes, rotanibulators and Velocitators, etc.
165 acres of grounds with spacious gardens, lawns, woods, meadows, and trout stream, etc.
Power Station equipped with six Diesel electric generators, each capable of developing 750 KW continuously, and 25 per cent, overload for two hours, capable of delivering over 50,000 amperes at no volts for all purposes, or 40,000 amperes at no volts can be delivered for two hours to the four Stages.
Shops, etc. : Carpenters and Wood Machinists shops (floor space 35,000 sq. ft.), Metal and Engineers' shops, Foundry and Blacksmith's shop, Plaster and Modeller's shops, Paint shop, Electrical Repair shop. Wardrobe workshop, Wig-making Workshop, Scenic Studio, Drapery Workshop, Prop and Model Making shop, Prop Rooms with 31,000 sq. ft. floor space. 14 selfcontained Cutting Rooms, fully equipped, with latest equipment. Stills' Developing, Retouching and Printing Laboratories, Optical Printing and Experimental Laboratories, Scoring Studio with 4,000 sq. ft. floor space. Restaurant with seating capacity for 1,000 persons.
Pinewood Studios.
Five stages: 3 — 165 by noft., 2 — no by 82ft Exterior lots : 48 acres.
Recording System : Western Electric Wide Range all mains.
Lighting : Direct current supply at 220 and no volts from own Diesel driven power station of 2,500 kw., 22,700 amperes at no volts. Incandescent and arc lighting chiefly latest Mole-Richardson types.
EALING STUDIOS, LTD.,
A.T.P. Studios, Ealing Green, W.5.
Telephone : Ealing 6761 (9 lines).
Directorate: Stephen L. Courtauid, M.C.
Chairman, Reginald P. Baker, F.C.A.
Managing Director, Major J. S. Courtauld,
M.C, M.B., Michael Balcon, Gordon W. G.
Rayner. Secretary : Gordon W. G. Rayner. Three floors — one 135 ft. by 83 ft., two 85 ft. by 73 ft.
Recording System : RCA Ultra Violet.
Electrical Equipment : Own generating plant, arc and incandescent lighting. Producer ... ... Michael Balcon.
Production and Plant
Supervisor ... John Croydon.
Literary Editor ... W. Meade (on Active
Service) . Scenario Editor ... Angus MacPhail. Studio Manager ... E. Marlow. Casting Director ... G. Hamilton Gay.
Film Editor Ray Pitt.
Musical Director ... Ernest Irving. Art Director ... Tom Morahan.
Chief Engineer ... S. G. Double.
Cameramen ... Roy Kellino.
Wilkie Cooper. Douglas Slocorabe. Camera Dept. Manager S. Howell. Sound Engineer and
Chief Recordist ... E.Williams.
Chief Electrician ... Jack Ford. Wardrobe .. ... Mrs. Underwood.
Buying Manager ... F. A. Giles. Chief Projectionist ... Percy Moss. Film Directors . . . Sergei Nolbandov.
Charles Frend. Basil Dearden. Press Publicity ... M. Danischewsky.
Productions, 1941 : "Turned Out Nice Again " (Marcel Varnel) ; " Ships With Wings " (Sergei Nolbandov); "The Black Sheep of WhitehaU " (Basil Dearden and Will Hay) ; "The Big Blockade" (Charles Frend) ; "The Foreman Went to France " (Charles Frend) ; Full-length Production for the War Office '. "Yellow Cajsar " (Short, produced by Cavalcanti) ; "Guests of Honour" (Short, produced by Cavalcanti).
FOX BRITISH PICTURE8 LTD.
See Wembley Film Studio, Ltd.
GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE8 (1928) LTD.
Gainsborough Studios, Islington, N.i.
Telephone : Clerkenwell 1271.
And at Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush.
Telephone : Shepherd's Bush 1210.
Directorate : Mark Ostrer (chairman), Maurice
Ostrer. In Charge of Production Maurice Ostrer.
Producer Edward Black.
General Manager of
Studios ... ... A. Godfrey-Lewis.
Production Manager ... J.Swinburne. Studio Manager ... W. P. Kellino.
Film Directors under
contract ... ... Marcel Varnel, Carol
Reed, John Harlow, Herbert Mason,
Anthony Asquith. Director of Music ... Louis Levy.
Casting Director ... Weston Drury.
Publicity Manager ... Bill Batchelor.
Productions, 1941 : "Hi Gang," "Back Room Boy," "Alibi."
GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS.
Studios : Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush.
Telephone : Shepherd's Bush 1210.
Produced by Castleton Knight. Commentated
by E. V. H. Emmett. Editor ... ... R. S. Howard.
Production Manager... H. W. Bishop. News Manager ... H. Bromige.
Chief Recordist ... A. Bushnell.
Recording Engineer ... H.Abbott. Cameramen ... ... P. Cannon.
S. Bonnett. A. Edmonds. H. Morley.
E. H. Hawkins. J. Turner.
J. Ewins. A. Willis. A. E. Aubury.
F. McLachlan. Recorders ... ... A. Prentice.
W. Hooker. Chief Cutter ... ... R.Drew.
Assistant ... ... W. Rowe.
Librarian ... ... A. Grosvenor.
Sound Equipment : B.A.F.
GAUMONT BRITISH STUDIOS.
Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush, W.12. Telephone : Shepherd's Bush 1210. • In Charge of Productions Maurice Ostrer. Producer... ... ... Edward Black.
General Manager of
Studios ... ... A. Godfrey-Lewis.