Word: gaumont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those were the hopeful days when Rank was talking of making 60 pictures a year and beating Hollywood at its own game of mass production. How badly he had flopped was shown by the prices of stocks in his two top companies, both at their eight-year lows. Gaumont-British common, which hit a high of 18s. last year, was down to 4s. 6d. last week. Odeon Theatres common, which had been up to 453., was down to 8. Commented the London Evening Standard: "In view of the gloomy estimates [of] the past year's results . . . shareholders must...
...used 40 to 60 cameras with a fine, eye for crisis and sidelight, pageantry and crowd, and assembled them with one of the world's most striking talents for cutting. To handle Britain's film, Rank has hired bouncing, white-haired little Castleton Knight, 54, head of Gaumont British News, who did the Technicolor films of the royal wedding and the royal wedding presents...
Died. Léon Gaumont, 82, French cinema pioneer, who synchronized film and sound as early as 1903, experimented with the first color films, showed the way to newsreel making; in Sainte Maxime, France...
Last month he made a deal with French Gaumont for a picture exchange with the French-a deal that may leave Hollywood, which before the war was allowed to exhibit only a limited number of pictures a year in France, still further out in the cold. Visiting Canada, where a year ago he bought a half interest in the 110-theater Odeon chain, Rank let it be known through one of his aides (he seldom speaks for himself) that he would build 50 more theaters in Canada to compete with Hollywood's outlets and perhaps a "showcase theater...
Throughout that world, everybody is passionately working and planning. Pathe is readying Le Bataillon du Ciel, whose real-life hero will be chief of French parachutists, one-armed Colonel Bourgoin. Gaumont plans to have Jean Cocteau direct his own La Belle et la Bête, assisted by ace director Marcel Pagnol. Artist Films is planning productions of Maupassant's Boule de Suif and Dostoevsky's Idiot. In Nice, Jacqueline Audry is directing France's sensational new eight-year-old Conrad in Les Malheurs de Sophie...