 Michael Balcon placed him in charge of the new Gaumont British art department where his organisational skills as well as talent came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of films at one time.After being Gaumont Britain's first real supervising art director, he moved to MGM-British where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War.After a brief spell spent interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Junge returned to London where he began work on King Vidor's "The Citadel" (1938).