[…] used to do a lot of 16mm transfer here of Paramount Pictures... Maurice Askew: Oh we did, yes that's right. […]
[…] possible. And when other newsreels started up such as Gaumont, Paramount, Pathe, they had much more clumsy equipment. Pathe had […]
[…]e circumstances. But I always tried to match the crew to the production rather than anything else. I think this was the most important thing that was paramount in my mind, or my Film Operation Manager's mind, was to get the right people for the right assignment, if you could. And that I mean is para[…]
[…]lm which had just been deposited at the bus stop at the luggage department whatever they call it the parcels department the brown fibre boxes were of paramount importance to me. They became the sort of totem of my existence.SPEAKER: M2So anyway that was the early life. And from then everything to do[…]
[…] recently, but we did a wide range of music.Jim Shields: Um [indecipherable]...I remember too, Maurice. You used to do a lot of 16mm transfer here of Paramount Pictures...Maurice Askew: Oh we did, yes that's right. We saw all the Paramount Pictures, we made the 16mm release negatives, that's right.J[…]
[…]ree. And of course, America were very quick to catch on to this problem. And so that was why every American company formed a British company that was paramount, who worked at Pinewood was 20th Century Fox, who owned Wembley and MGM Of course, by now had the, we're building very shortly afterwards, t[…]
[…]g. If... was only made because Albert was then in the New York doing A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg and he and Michael went to see Charlie Bludhorn of Paramount who had already turned the film down in London, quite different from what she says in Alex Walker's account of the British cinema, Bud Ornst[…]
[…] were good films too.Charles Wilder: Yes, oh absolutely marvellous. And they were, except for Becket, they were all for Universal. I think Becket was Paramount, I think that's right. Um...if you only knew at that time, you'd make all sorts of notes, wouldn't you? [Chuckles]Margaret Thomson: [Chuckli[…]