[…] And then they sold it for, shall we say, you know, for $2,000 after they spent so so much on writing scripts and so forth. And then it was bought by Paramount, who then spent another $20,000 on it. And by now it was then sold, you say, $500,000 to somebody else. By the time he got back to Fox, they[…]
[…]f Birmingham because if, if it had been hit of course twenty streets would have gone up if, because they were all there, MGM, and Warners and Fox and Paramount and Colombia, were all around John Bright Street in Birmingham.They’d moved out into a country house about five miles outside Birmingham in […]
[…]pictures that this country ever saw. When I did Oh, What a Lovely War, 1968, we showed it at the Plaza, I sat with Dickie Attenborough, it was a Paramount picture. The Paramount executive came to me and he said, 'Bill, this is the best colour print I've ever seen.' I said, 'Well, it's a very go[…]
[…]m Togus or their own system, their own sound system.Arthur Graham: You went there actually as a Cameraman?Eric Cross: Yes, an operator, I did all the Paramount quickies and every time I thought I was going to get a film they'd import a German or a French cameraman, or an American Cameraman, we were […]
[…] . Universal. Strangely not so much MGM, but certainly Universal, Paramount, Fox all now do a modicum of restoration work, […]
