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  1. Gaumont-British was founded in 1898 as the British subsidiary of the French Gaumont Film Company. It became independent of its French parent in 1922 when Isidore Ostrer acquired control of Gaumont-British. In 1927 the Ideal Film Company, a leading silent film maker, merged with Gaumont. The company's Lime Grove Studios was used for film ...

  2. Gaumont-British was founded in 1898 as the British subsidiary of the French Gaumont Film Company. It became independent of its French parent in 1922 when Isidore Ostrer acquired control of Gaumont-British. In 1927 the Ideal Film Company, a leading silent film maker, merged with Gaumont. The company's Lime Grove Studios was used for film ...

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  4. In the 1930s,Gaumont British,under their production head Michael Balcon,decided to have a go at breaking into the American market in a big way.There was of course already a tie up with Twntieth Century Fox who owned part of Gaumont British.However they formed Gaumont British Distributors of America.Alas like many a predecessor and also their successors,The Rank Organisation,they came a cropper ...

  5. The Gaumont Film Company (French:), often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904 ...

  6. A. C. set up offices at 25 Cecil Court in London. The Gaumont Company quickly became successful and he expanded into handling films for Hepworth, Elge (France) and Lumiere (France). Business was booming so in 1903, A. C.'s other younger brother Herbert also joined the company. AS A SIDE NOTE: Gaumont was also the British distributor for Solax.

  7. LS Video, Gaumont British Distributors, Grapevine Video. Production Co Gaumont British Picture Corporation Ltd. Genre Mystery & Thriller. Original Language English (United Kingdom)

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  8. Gaumont British. My uncle, Isidore Ostrer, created and ran The Gaumont British Picture Corporation Limited, which was the largest movie company in the UK in the 1930s, employing 16,000 people, including directors like Hitchcock, and stars like James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Robert Donat, Conrad Veidt, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, John ...

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