[…] in turn todo the royal rota. And when BBC - I went to BBC television - they had a newsreel royal rotacomprising of all the five newsreel companies - Paramount, Gaumont, Universal, Pathé - four -and BBC and ITN had a rota, they had their own rota, because we were dealing in 60mm andthey were dealing[…]
[…]r: It was a continuous operation? E.M. Smedley-Aston: Pretty well, yes. Roy Fowler: Yes.E.M. Smedley-Aston: We made for Paramount, we made for MGM and we made for somebody else, I forget. I don't know whether you would like to have - I mean the other day I noticed one o[…]
[…]n dramatic. And I assume that maybe he nearly got run over. But I don't know because that's the only image I've gotAlan Legard 11:31 1931 Paramount Skippy, and directed by Norma TurogRichard Marden 11:38 written by Joe MankewichAlan Legard 11:39 by Jor Mankewich J[…]
[…]ineers were so used to dictating what they did, thou shalt use or not use. And then suddenly Of course, it got beyond their control on production was paramount and they had their way I never quite worked out. There's been a fantastic amount of equipment bought on production money and not where it al[…]
[…]gain, we I went to see blue dog, who is the child bluedot, who had been the person to finance Rubin, Julian, when he became first became president of paramount. He then founded this group called group company called Gulf and Western. And again, he was in his office in the first film they financed wa[…]
[…]the head booker. But very often they wouldn't make appointments with companies like British Lion, they would probably make an appointment with MGM or Paramount. We small independents had to have the crumbs from the rich man's table, so though we were selling in those days what I considered to be ver[…]
[…]dest, kind American - not too many of those. He was so diffident, so easily embarrassed in spite of his great knowledge. He was the make-up editor at Paramount News in America before he was seconded to the OWI. When I first went to meet him it was like walking into a clich�. He was sitting at his de[…]
[…]uld like to take you to lunch. And there was a lovely…it’s gone now sadly, but there old, very traditional thing outside, just outside those gates at Paramount called [Oblatz?] and so I go into [Oblatz?] to have lunch with Bob Gottschalk and as he was paying for it I let him finish his soup and then[…]
[…]ol could never understand that whatsoever. certainly wasn't allowed, as you rightly said in Metro none of them over there now we're now in touch with Paramount now.Jim Shields 14:10 If you work with American he does not smell and visual. Or Dom I've noticed and react.John Hargreaves &nbs[…]
