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The former Gaumont State Cinema in Kilburn, London, opened in 1937. Gaumont-British were the first large British cinema chain controlling 180 cinemas by 1928 and up to 300 the following year. Fox Film Corporation indirectly acquired shares in the company to help with the expansion. [5]
Gaumont opened foreign offices and acquired the theatre chain Gaumont British, which later notably produced several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock such as The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).
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Gaumont-British was a subsidiary of the French production company Gaumont, which had bought the land for a studio at Shepherd's Bush in 1912 and begun producing by 1914. It was a solely British company from 1922 (run by the Ostrer brothers), and was an exhibition giant in Britain by the late '20s, with 280 cinemas in 1929.
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was the British arm of the French film company Gaumont. The company became independent of its French parent in 1922, when brothers Isidore and Maurice Ostrer acquired control of Gaumont-British.
Gaumont British News was first released in January 1934, as a replacement for the Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont Sound News, and ran until January 1959. To guarantee national coverage, Gaumont produced numerous local stories for addition to the main reel, and a special edition of the Gaumont British News was also regularly released for Dublin.
