Corporate Open DS/UK/1412 Gaumont-British Picture Company; 1898-1941; British film company Gaumont-British Picture Company 1898-1941 British film company

Media; Film, company The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was a company which produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. 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 a leading silent film maker, the Ideal Film Company, merged with Gaumont. The company's Lime Grove Studios was used for film productions including Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of The 39 Steps (1935), while its Islington Studios made Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). In the 1930s, the company employed 16,000 people. In the United States, Gaumont-British had its own distribution operation for its films until December 1938, when it outsourced distribution to 20th Century Fox. In 1941 the Rank Organisation bought Gaumont-British and its sister company Gainsborough Pictures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaumont-British (2019) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 8/31/2012 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 7f2a8ac3-d58e-401a-be5e-d6881d15b61b