View entry
Name: JOHNSON, Robert Guy (Dr)
Nee: cousin of Peter Mervyn Johnson
Birth Date: 1908
Death Date: 26 Sep 1979 Nairobi
First Date: 1930
Profession: Medical practitioner
Area: Box 676, Nairobi
Book Reference: Red 31
School: MB, ChB Edin.
General Information:
Gazette 4 July 1980 probate
Medical student (Ancestry Passenger list 1927)
Gazette 11 Sep 1972 Med Practitioners and Dentists list
Ditto 18 Jan 1938
Tom Lawrence The first Sound Recording Studio was set up in a house in Rosslyn with and Art Deco front, by Guy Johnson and Eric Blanckart.
Tom Lawrence The first Sound Recording Studio was set up in a house in Rosslyn with and Art Deco front, by Guy Johnson and Eric Blanckart.
1938 (14th May) In the Impala Magazine of the Prince of Wales School, Dr. Guy Johnson “...entertained the School for about an hour with some very good films of his own taking.
1941 A film ‘War Came to Kenya’ was made in the country and produced in Kenya Information Office, and was done by African Film Productions Ltd. of South Africa with Guy Johnson and Director and Eric Blanckart as Asst. Cameraman and Ian Wetherell as commentator.
1944 (Nov) A film ‘Masai Cattlemen’ is released -amongst the list of ‘New Films’. It is described as “…a film which was taken by Dr. Guy Johnson in Kenya for the East Africa Command. Commentary and effects track were re-recorded here from discs sent with the film (Colonial Cinema magazine, Nov 1944, p. 48).
1947 East African Sound Studios Ltd. was a record company established by Dr. Guy Johnson in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1947. The company released the Jambo label (Discogs website A).
1944 (Nov) A film ‘Masai Cattlemen’ is released -amongst the list of ‘New Films’. It is described as “…a film which was taken by Dr. Guy Johnson in Kenya for the East Africa Command. Commentary and effects track were re-recorded here from discs sent with the film (Colonial Cinema magazine, Nov 1944, p. 48).
1947 East African Sound Studios Ltd. was a record company established by Dr. Guy Johnson in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1947. The company released the Jambo label (Discogs website A).
East African (Kenyan) label founded in 1947 by Dr. Guy Johnson and his East African Sound Studios Ltd., the first entirely local record company in East Africa. Recordings were made in Nairobi, Kenya, but also in Dar es Salaam and Kampala.
East African Sound Studios Ltd was “…established around 1947 by two Britons -Dr. Guy Johnson and Eric Blackart and was originally intended for both film production , sound recordings and vernacular records. They had a small studio in the living-room of a bungalow on Limuru Road (‘A’ Route) in Nairobi, but also made recordings in the Minerva Cinema, the Avalon Theatre, and the Evangelical Church in Dar-es-Salaam [all three are confirmed as being in Dar] and in the Nsembya School Hall, Kampala (Article by Flemming Harrev in 1989. Publication unknown.)
1950 By 1950, the Jambo label had issued 210 records, but experienced financial difficulties (Discogs website B).
East African Sound Studios Ltd was “…established around 1947 by two Britons -Dr. Guy Johnson and Eric Blackart and was originally intended for both film production , sound recordings and vernacular records. They had a small studio in the living-room of a bungalow on Limuru Road (‘A’ Route) in Nairobi, but also made recordings in the Minerva Cinema, the Avalon Theatre, and the Evangelical Church in Dar-es-Salaam [all three are confirmed as being in Dar] and in the Nsembya School Hall, Kampala (Article by Flemming Harrev in 1989. Publication unknown.)
1950 By 1950, the Jambo label had issued 210 records, but experienced financial difficulties (Discogs website B).
1951 In 1951, the African Ground Cotton Company (Afcot Ltd.) bought the Jambo label and renamed the company East African Records Ltd.
1953 (14th July Under the Compulsory Military Training Ordinance 1951, there had to be the appointment of medical practitioners who could conduct medical examinations. Amongst those appointed by the Medical Examinations Board for Nairobi were Dr. R. Guy Johnson, Dr. W.V. Boyle, Dr. F.D. Flowerdew, Mr. J.A.S. Green, Dr. D.G.T. Hicks and Dr. M. Dunstan-Adams. They were all of P.O. Box 832, Nairobi (Kenya Gazette, 14th July 1953, p.714).
1953 (14th July Under the Compulsory Military Training Ordinance 1951, there had to be the appointment of medical practitioners who could conduct medical examinations. Amongst those appointed by the Medical Examinations Board for Nairobi were Dr. R. Guy Johnson, Dr. W.V. Boyle, Dr. F.D. Flowerdew, Mr. J.A.S. Green, Dr. D.G.T. Hicks and Dr. M. Dunstan-Adams. They were all of P.O. Box 832, Nairobi (Kenya Gazette, 14th July 1953, p.714).