Kinematograph year book (1948)

70 The Kinemattigraph Year Book. GAIN, BARRINGTON C, F.C.A., director, General Cinema Finance Corp., Ltd. ; General Film Distributors, Ltd. ; Eagle-Lion Distributors, Ltd. ; British Pictorial Productions, Ltd. ; Film Laboratories, Ltd. ; Two Cities Films, Ltd. ; Production Facilities (Films), Ltd. ; G.B. Animation, Ltd. ; Overture. Theatre, Ltd. ; Universal Pictures, Ltd. ; b, 1906 ; partner firm of Farrow, Bersey, Gain, Vincent & Co. ; director of The Associated Paper Mills, Ltd., and subsidiary companies ; Boyden & Smith, Ltd. Address : 53, New Broad Street, E.C.2. Tel. : London Wall 5555 GAMBLE, B. T. S., M.S.I.E., M.B.K.S., director, switchgear dept. F. H. Pride, Ltd. ; apprenticed to electrical engineering with B. T.-H. ; served successively with English Electric Company and Courtaulds, Ltd., Coventry ; joined Micklewright, Ltd., as manager, 1927 ; became associated with F. H. Pride, Ltd., 1935. Address : 69-81, High Street, Clapham, S.W.4. Tel. : Macaulav 2281. GARLING, W. F., M.B.K.S., M.B.F.I., M.S.M.P.E., manager, reproducer equipment dept., R.C.A. Photophone, Ltd. ; b. 1903 ; first associated with development of sound apparatus in 1927, in the laboratories of General Electric Company, Schenectady ; joined engineering dept., R.C.A. April, 1928 ; transferred to R.C.A. Photophone, Ltd., London, 1929. Addresses: Office : 36, Woodstock Grove, Shepherds Bush, W.12. Tel. : Shepherds Bush 1200. Private : 20, Blythwood Road, Pinner. Tel. : Pinner 5447 ' GELL, WILLIAM J., C.B.E., managing director, Monarch Film Corporation, Ltd. ; joined the Gaumont Company 1910 ; joint general manager 1922 ; joint managing director 1928 ; sole managing director 1929 ; resigned Gaumont Company 1933 and directorships of British Acoustic Films, Ltd. ; International Acoustic Films, Ltd. ; Gainsborough Pictures (1928), Ltd. ; Film Clearing Houses, Ltd. and Denman Picture Houses, Ltd ; managing director of Pathe Pictures, Ltd., and on board of British Instructional Films, Ltd., and Pathe Equipment Ltd., 1933-43 ; formed Monarch Film Corporation, 1947. Address : Suffolk House, Iver Heath, Bucks. Tel. : Uxbridge 173. GENT, COUN, H. S., exhibitor; b. 1892; educated Wesley College and King Edward VII. School, Sheffield; actively associated with Coliseum, Spital Hill, Sheffield, since 1931; elected to the Sheffield City Council November, 1935, and re-elected, 1938 and 1946 ; chairman, Sheffield and District Branch C.E.A. 1938-42 and 1947. Address: 12, Kenbourne Road, Sheffield, 7. Tel. : Sharrow 51456. GIBSON, W. S., director and general manager Thompson's Enterprises, Ltd. ; joined Industry, 191 1 ; chairman, Northern Branch C. E.A., 1935 ; 1939-41. Addresses : Office : 4, Palladium Buildings, Eastbourne Road, Middlesbrough. Tel. : Linthorpe 88156. Private : 64, Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough. GILBERT, FRANK L., B.Sc. (Lon.), Ph.D. (Cantab.) ; joint managing director, Production Facilities (Films), Ltd. ; experience in commerce and industry, including management, consultancy ; chief organisation officer, Ministry of Food, 1940-44. Address: Imperial House, Air Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Mayfnir 2210. GILBERTSON, R., general manager, Rovalty, Gosforth ; member Northern Branch C.E.A. committee ; b. 1892, Boldon, Co. Durham ; organised Managers' Separate Section, Northern Area, and was first chairman ; bon. secretary, Northern branch, Society of Cinematurians. Addresses: Office : Royalty, Gosforth. Tel. : 51066. Private : "Braemar," 8, Kensington Avenue, Gosforth, Newcastleon-Tyne, 3. Tel. : 51066. GILLETT, BERNARD EDWARD, hon. secretary, Birmingham Teachers' Film Society; National Federation of Educational Film Groups, b. 1904. ed. Birmingham University. Member Birmingham Educational Committee's Film Advisory Committee, 1937-45 ; educational representative, British Film Institute, 1940-42 ; started Birmingham Teachers' Film Society, 1946 ; assisted foundation of National Federation of Educational Film Groups. Addresses: Office : Colmers Farm, Secondary Modern School, Rubery, Birmingham. Tel. : Rubery 274. Private : 143, Ridgacre Road, Quinton, Birmingham 32. Tel. : Woodgate 2571. GILLIAT, SIDNEY, writer, director, producer; director, Individual Pictures Ltd. ; b. 1908, Edgeley, Cheshire ; entered films as reader ; joined Elstree's scenario department ; later, gag man and assistant to Walter Forde ; joined Gaumont-British company as junior writer, 1930; wrote "Jack's the Boy" and " Rome Express " for Gainsborough Pictures ; first original story "Friday the 13th"; formed Individual Pictures, Ltd., with Frank Launder in 1944 ; screenplays include, "The Ladv Vanishes," "Night Train to Munich," "The Young Mr. Pitt," "Millions Like Us," "Waterloo Road," "2,000 Women," in collaboration with Launder ; jointly produced with Launder, "The Rake's Progress," "I See a Dark Stranger," "Green for Danger," "Captain Boycott," "London Belongs to Me," "The Blue Lagoon." Addresses: Office : Empire House, 117, Regent Street, W.i. Tel. : Regent 0621. Private : 25, The Vale, Chelsea, S.WT.3. GLENISTER, E. V., secretary, Bournemouth section, Hants and E. Dorset Branch C.E.A. ; member Branch committee ; manager, Regent, Bournemouth ; b. 1885, Chelsea ; founded Cross Pictures, Ltd., in association with late Pearl Cross, 1906 ; manager, York's Theatre, Brighton, 1921-29 ; joined G.B., 1929 ; chairman Sussex Branch C.E.A., 1922-26. Address : Regent, Bournemouth. Tel. : 2402. GODFREY, R. H., joint managing director, Cheshire County Cinemas, Ltd. ; vicechairman N. Western Branch C.E.A. 1947-8, delegate to General Council ; b. 1904, Glasgow. Addresses: Office: Empress, Runcorn, Cheshire. Tel. : 2962. Private : The Ridge, Manley Road. Frodsham, Cheshire. Tel. : 2269. GOLDRICK, MILES ALEXANDER, chairman and managing director, Western Electric Co., Ltd. b. 1903, ed. University of California. Entered technical side industry, 1927 ; Comdr. U.S. Navy, 1941-5 ; appointed present post December, 1945. Addresses: Office : Liberty House, Regent Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Regent 1001. Private: