[…]o each reel? Would there be a bit of politics? A bit of sport? A mixture?Reg Sutton: Oh yes, humorous things, we used to do gag shots as well. We and Paramount were great ones for putting in gag shots. I remember one occasion we used to think these things up, it's probably still in the vaults, I rem[…]
[…] from England he was Hungarian and he started to read in the paper somewhere that he is just coming to Hollywood to make a series of puppet tunes for Paramount Pictures. So I went to see him and showed him some of my models and that was my first job. I think it was sixteen dollars a week.SPEAKER: M1[…]
[…]d then stay. And as soon as I was working there, I realised, unlike England, there were union and non-union movies. So I couldn’t get into the union. Paramount had been trying for some time to get me in the union there, and couldn’t. But then I discovered there were quite well paid, quite interestin[…]
[…]e useful.Alf Tunwell: Well there was er, British Movietone News, there was Pathe Gazette, there was Universal News, there was Gaumont News, there was Paramount News and Topical Budget were either just in or just out, I'm not quite sure. They were just going out, fading out, or they were still in, I […]
[…]ad, he couldn't supervise them. So we all found ourselves out of work one Monday morning. Cecil DeMille took them over for a while, he had a row with Paramount at that time, I forget what about. And he took them over and moved them in here. And I remember him giving me a very benign smile one day as[…]
[…]te.Roy Fowler: Right, OK, let's not forget that.Joan Kemp-Welch: And then this one was with John Stuart, which I had a better part. That wasParamount.Roy Fowler: It's just labelled Paramount.Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes.Roy Fowler: It says, OT 24. I wonder what 'OT' stands for?Joan […]
[…]p;were paid labor modest expenses. I think each company. For example I know the paramount people were paid more than money else. And I know that movie at home&n[…]
