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[…] the Plaza, I sat with Dickie Attenborough, it was a Paramount picture. The Paramount executive came to me and he […]

[…]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[…]

[…] they brought him in, tested him, and he got it. Paramount saw him in it and put him under contract […]

[…] 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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] used to do a lot of 16mm transfer here of Paramount Pictures... Maurice Askew: Oh we did, yes that's right. We […]

[…] 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[…]

[…]was it relatively gradual and what was the attitude towards background effects versus music. I can remember MGM seemed to say that dialogue had to be paramount and intelligible above all else. This is judgement from my experience on The Hill when I first went in there.John Aldred: I think it was tru[…]

[…] Lawrence of Arabia . Then had a year contract with Paramount, then worked in Canada and freelance with Hall Wallis, […]

[…]tor wants, you’ve got no chance. You have to in essence read your director's mind and I think the relationship between a director and an operator are paramount; apart from the cameraman. It’s nothing about loyalty, I have loyalty to everyone but I would always see the director's point of v[…]