[…] cheated by people I thought of my friend Michael Powell, you see, because originally they wanted to have an American director, when I managed to get Paramount interested, when I mentioned Michael Powell de monteneux. So I said, the American director may not, from a Russian point of view, be accepta[…]
[…]to be in Cineamscope and it was changed at the last minute because John Davis fell out with them and they went over to America and did this deal with Paramount and we had Vistavision .KGY: What about Vistavision.CC: It was chronic. Terrible cameras to work with. Ungainly and awkward. The whole idea […]
[…], we had, as far as I can remember, this is what, twelve years ago now, at that time we had about 40 static camera crews, which is bigger than MGM or Paramount or Universal in their heyday, either before or immediately after the war. It was a fantastic number of people that we had down in the film d[…]
[…]rise, was it not? 00:30:50ADOLPH:Yes. Q:Can you tell us about … 00:30:52ADOLPH:You see you had a, you had Pathé, Gaum-, Gaumont, Paramount, and Universal. Q:And Movietone. 00:31:09ADOLPH:Yes. Q:And all these newsreels were very much in competition with one a[…]
[…]seas assignments I did. One was the blowing up of the Heligoland UBoat Pens which was quite something. I went out. There was Alf Tungwell for I think Paramount and Dennis Towler I think for Universal and myself for BBC Newsreel. The operation was going to be viewed from the seas but we wanted someth[…]
[…]r ages, I had people under me and used to cut one in three. Then I did a picture with Christopher Morahan called Diamonds for Breakfast for Paramount, and then The Best House in London for Philip Saville, who was Diana Rigg's boyfriend at the time. Then I went to America and did […]
[…] about the rivalries between the newsreel companies – Gaumont, Movietone, Paramount, Pathé, Universal – are a treat. For instance: at […]
[…] what the designer would like.”[27] Script and character figure in paramount position, but in working towards the objective of creating […]
[…]Rug? video yes. And then, when I worked for central casting, we were over the car park in in Brewer Street, very unsavory place. And then we moved to Paramount house 162 Wardour street, so I stayed in my favorite Wardour street for a long time.Speaker 1 7:52 Is it hard to find reliable s[…]
