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[…]pictures in the thirties, or the beginning of the thirties I: 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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] we used to do gag shots as well. We and Paramount were great ones for putting in gag shots. I […]

[…] 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[…]