The producers of Hindle Wakes

The film's producers were AS Bromhead and Gaumont-British. The Bromhead brothers set themselves up in 1898 as the British agents for the French film producer Leon Gaumont. Gaumont was one of the pioneers of industrial production systems in the film industry. The Bromheads bought out the French interests in 1922, and the company was registered as Gaumont-British in 1927, with financial capitol from the city firm owned by the Ostrer brothers, owners of the Odeon cinema chain. Part of the investment in Gaumont-British paid for an expensive refurbishment of the company's Shepherd Bush studio. The new company also included two film rental companies and a chain of 21 cinemas. Thus, as with other large UK film companies, Gaumont-British established a presence across the different sectors of the industry - that is, they became vertically integrated.