[…] in those days was the newsreels. They were in everything, did everything. So I wrote to there were five New Zealand companies in those days that was paramount, universal pathing, movie tone and go more British. And I wrote to Goon British, and I wrote to Paramount, and I didn't write pathing, but I[…]
[…]e I wanted to do personal films myself. But suddenly I was offered to take paramount. So I became vice president of a paramount company in America. Really chair[…]
[…]our or five months and he sent for me. I went up and saw him in the box. He said, "I've got a nice job for you." I said, "Oh, what's that?" He said, "Paramount News, over at East Acton - the jobs yours, I've been in touch with them." So I went over there and we get round to now an entirely different[…]
[…]e joined to begin with and then a few years later possibly 1930 31 British Paramount decided to start a newsreel and he joined British paramount. Jimmy can I&nb[…]
[…]tinuity might get bigger his money in the bank. And that was the attitude. So off the casino came I was then a battle that guy from Western had built paramount. And bad Owen Stein had been taken by Paramount from United Artists to head the European operations side paramount and they had a sick pictu[…]
[…]was it relatively gradual and what was the attitude towards background effects versus music. I can remember MGM seemed to say that dialogue had to be paramount and intelligible above all else. This is judgement from my experience on The Hill when I first went in there.John Aldred: I think it was tru[…]
[…]or pictures in the thirties, or the beginning of the thirtiesI: That’s right, yeah, because of the ‘quota act’?CB: Oh yes! I did a couple of those at Paramount, a couple of quota quickies. They sometimes turned out better than a picture that had taken a long time to makeI: IndeedCB: Because they wer[…]
[…]work with Waldo and I did, and got more and more hooked and said we've got to make this film somehow. There was a swap of producers, I sold it to the Paramount people, which is hotly disputed at Paramount. There was one head who wanted to do it and there was another that hated the whole idea because[…]
[…]und myself up at the Old Gate studio finishing off a Herbert Wilcox picture, after that I went over to the old Rock Studios where we continued making Paramount British quotas, which we made in those days, we made one every 10 days.Alan Lawson: Did the cameramen vary on that or was it usually the sam[…]
