[…]ith Alex. And he told me lots of anecdotes about Alex.John Legard: When he first arrived?Teddy Darvas: The first film that was made was for Paramount but I have forgotten what it was called "Not While Parents Sleep" something like that. But "The Private Life of Hen dry VIII" and they had a[…]
[…]...I don't know whether he's still alive?Alan Lawson: Um...yes...he was the man...who used to do close ups with the one-inch lens.David Prosser: With Paramount...on an Eyemo, yes.Alan Lawson: [Laughs]. Yes, that's right...David Prosser: I mean he was the first walking shot cameraman...Alan Lawson: T[…]
[…], we had, as far as I can remember, this is what, twelve years ago now, at that time we had about 40 static camera crews, which is bigger than MGM or Paramount or Universal in their heyday, either before or immediately after the war. It was a fantastic number of people that we had down in the film d[…]
[…] . Universal. Strangely not so much MGM, but certainly Universal, Paramount, Fox all now do a modicum of restoration work, […]
[…] it in what was the original shell of that beautiful Paramount. The technical services department were the project managers. The […]
[…] it in what was the original shell of that beautiful Paramount. The technical services department were the project managers. The […]
[…]ink it was twenty titles a year or something like that, and other studiosfollowed suit. Universal. Strangely not so much MGM, but certainly Universal,Paramount, Fox all now do a modicum of restoration work, usually on selectedtitles. But it does mean they are looking at catalogues, and beginning to […]
[…]der, okay? "Beyond Borders", yeah. Kent Houston 30:13 "Beyond Borders", again, was a job for Martin Campbell. It came from Paramount, and it's a lovely film, really, about international medical relief and charity. Again, didn't do terribly well in the box office, but a gre[…]
[…] in turn todo the royal rota. And when BBC - I went to BBC television - they had a newsreel royal rotacomprising of all the five newsreel companies - Paramount, Gaumont, Universal, Pathé - four -and BBC and ITN had a rota, they had their own rota, because we were dealing in 60mm andthey were dealing[…]
[…]the head booker. But very often they wouldn't make appointments with companies like British Lion, they would probably make an appointment with MGM or Paramount. We small independents had to have the crumbs from the rich man's table, so though we were selling in those days what I considered to be ver[…]
