Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,410 pages of information and 246,085 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Gaumont-British Cinemas

From Graces Guide

1898 Gaumont-British was founded as the British subsidiary of the French Gaumont Film Company.

1922 It became independent of its French parent when Isidore Ostrer acquired control of Gaumont-British.

In 1927 the Ideal Film Company, a leading silent film maker, merged with Gaumont.

1941 Bought by the Rank Organisation

G. B. Equipments, a subsidiary of Gaumont-British, made a number of 16-mm film sound projectors in Britain before and during the Second World War, including models such as the G.B.-Scope A and B, Grosvenor and G.B. K and L series.

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