[…] be faced with a man who couldn't care less about that.Roy Fowler: And yet at Warners they had Anton Grot who was a superb art director andWallace at Paramount, a different kind of art department at Paramount but never the less,a very talented one.Maurice Carter: Maybe he was a very tough art direct[…]
[…]or pictures in the thirties, or the beginning of the thirtiesI: 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] in those days was the newsreels. They were in everything, did everything. So I wrote to there were five New Zealand companies in those days that was paramount, universal pathing, movie tone and go more British. And I wrote to Goon British, and I wrote to Paramount, and I didn't write pathing, but I[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] job but drop dead darling was as I say was way I thought way ahead of its time as a comedy and it didn't make it was unfortunate. Both Some work for paramount. And just at that moment, Paramount was taken over by Gulf was I forget the name of the guy that took it over. And they literally swept ever[…]
[…]y were the notorious onesUnknown Speaker  40:28  for the old Hagan things weren't they? Hagan,Roy Fowler  40:29  yes, some of the Paramount stuff. Twickenham, course.Unknown Speaker  40:37  So anyway, I can't think of anything that of any significance.Roy Fowler  4[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
