Word: gaumont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some 600 cinema theaters, worth ?24,000,000. This is less than 15% of the British total, but since they include Gaumont-British's 275, and Odeon's 300 cinemas and supercinemas, they cater to almost one-third of Britain's 23,000,000 weekly cinemaddicts...
Rank's 24 cinema companies are also variously hooked up with big U.S. producers. M.G.M. and Fox own 49% of his Gaumont-British Pictures; United Artists has an important interest in Odeon; General Film distributes all of Universal's pictures in Britain. So far as the rest of British production is concerned, just about all Rank lacks of a complete cinemonopoly is the ?15,000,000 Associated British Pictures which has some 500 theaters...
...colleague, meticulous Robert Stevenson, 36, moved into his directorship with the precision of a mathematics teacher. Son of an English businessman, he took a "first" in mathematics at Cambridge University. A postgraduate thesis on the psychology of the cinema got him so interested in the subject that he persuaded Gaumont-British to take him on as a reader...