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[…] The last days of the newsreels: Jim Wright at British Paramount News; John Davis; Candy’s retirement and building up British […]

[…] well, yes. Roy Fowler: Yes. E.M. Smedley-Aston: We made for Paramount, we made for MGM and we made for somebody […]

[…]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[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…]me and things like that. Then after a time it closed down and then it was taken over by a motion picture company - I'm not at all sure whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make silent films round there, and occasionally they would enlist some local people for crowd scene[…]

[…]r ages, I had people under me and used to cut one in three. Then I did a picture with Christopher Morahan called Diamonds for Breakfast for Paramount, and then The Best House in London for Philip Saville, who was Diana Rigg's boyfriend at the time. Then I went to America and did […]

[…] company - I'm not at all sure whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make […]

[…] a picture with Christopher Morahan called Diamonds for Breakfast for Paramount, and then The Best House in London for Philip […]

[…]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[…]