[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]our or five months and he sent for me. I went up and saw him in the box. He said, "I've got a nice job for you." I said, "Oh, what's that?" He said, "Paramount News, over at East Acton - the jobs yours, I've been in touch with them." So I went over there and we get round to now an entirely different[…]
[…]d then stay. And as soon as I was working there, I realised, unlike England, there were union and non-union movies. So I couldn’t get into the union. Paramount had been trying for some time to get me in the union there, and couldn’t. But then I discovered there were quite well paid, quite interestin[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] cheated by people I thought of my friend Michael Powell, you see, because originally they wanted to have an American director, when I managed to get Paramount interested, when I mentioned Michael Powell de monteneux. So I said, the American director may not, from a Russian point of view, be accepta[…]
[…]e a serial in England. And here he is looking for the Son. See. The Paris studios, those pictures I took of Joan of Arc, I was standing on top of the Paramount news truck with my camera over my head upside down, took little pictures, and these enlargements. Here's the loudspeakers while they were do[…]
[…]pstead, the producer, and to Robert Stevenson, the director, and said, "I've found 'Baby' for us!" So they brought him in, tested him, and he got it. Paramount saw him in it and put him under contract immediately, and that was the beginning of Alan Ladd! Amazing, hmm?Arnold Schwartzman : He's extrem[…]
