[…]o each reel? Would there be a bit of politics? A bit of sport? A mixture?Reg Sutton: Oh yes, humorous things, we used to do gag shots as well. We and Paramount were great ones for putting in gag shots. I remember one occasion we used to think these things up, it's probably still in the vaults, I rem[…]
[…]e I wanted to do personal films myself. But suddenly I was offered to take paramount. So I became vice president of a paramount company in America. Really chair[…]
[…]d I said, look, there must be, apart from the Sterling element to this policy, there must be a dollar element. They said, Well, we haven't heard from Paramount about this. And I said, well you get on to Paramount and find out. They came back about 48 hours later and asked me to do the dollar policy […]
[…]car and bring the film's down to the hall? And then can you fix the car? So he did all that. And I remember it was a Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis from paramount in colour. And he got he came, he brought the films down, carried them up the ladder, and they were all on spools ready, and onto the machin[…]
[…]tinuity might get bigger his money in the bank. And that was the attitude. So off the casino came I was then a battle that guy from Western had built paramount. And bad Owen Stein had been taken by Paramount from United Artists to head the European operations side paramount and they had a sick pictu[…]
[…]f Birmingham because if, if it had been hit of course twenty streets would have gone up if, because they were all there, MGM, and Warners and Fox and Paramount and Colombia, were all around John Bright Street in Birmingham.They’d moved out into a country house about five miles outside Birmingham in […]
[…]p;were paid labor modest expenses. I think each company. For example I know the paramount people were paid more than money else. And I know that movie at home&n[…]
[…] was that the stage show would be covered by the whole of the shift in the spot gallery, under Mick because he was red-hot on spots, having come from Paramount and places like that where they had big stage shows. And he said, "It means I've got to leave the projection to you, Dave." I thought, "Well[…]
[…]und myself up at the Old Gate studio finishing off a Herbert Wilcox picture, after that I went over to the old Rock Studios where we continued making Paramount British quotas, which we made in those days, we made one every 10 days.Alan Lawson: Did the cameramen vary on that or was it usually the sam[…]
[…]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[…]
