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[…] and the King of Siam, a book that had been written quite some years before by a woman who had actually lived through it and then made into a film by Fox with Rex Harrison and R&H had this idea of doing it and Gertrude Lawrence was going to be in it. And he said “Should I take it?” and I said “W[…]

[…] very small. And then what happened was I had been working for some time on a screenplay with Steve Zellian of Falcon and The Snowman. And we were at Fox and maybe as a result of Honky Tonk Freeway and everything it got put into turnaround and I could see that we weren't going to make it and I came […]

[…] this country. He said of course he'd left Pathe and was joining British Movietone News. British Movietone News consisted of Harmsworth and of course Fox 20th Century. Well, at the beginning of the foundation of that reel, a number of Americans came over to teach us how to use sound. And he said to […]

[…]ystem and the sound quality was good.Roy Fowler: Well let's talk about the newsreels as you remember them from then on. How long a time were you with Fox Movietone?Norman Fisher: All in all from 1936 to 1978. The war was in the middle but I was a newsreel war correspondent so I was still with Moviet[…]

[…] great row with the MOD and thePress would probably be critical of television being so outrageous and they forbade us to transmit it.So I called Paul Fox who in those days was in charge of Panorama and said "Paul would you showthis film?" and he said "I can't show it all" I said would you show some?[…]

[…]now how I found out there was something at Denham, but they mistook me for another Ryder, Sid Ryder who is still around I think, something to do with Fox?LH: Dunno.WR: Yeah, on the projection side. And I worked there with CC Stevens. I couldn’t believe it, because at Beaconsfield we often did forty […]