[…]ught to have the whole staff to do." It was a major story, on my own! It worked out well and I managed to get some quite good stuff actually. I had a Paramount camera man, Prakash, who became my assistant and he helped me quite a lot in locations and things and getting to know Delhi, I mean I had to[…]
[…] in fact worked for Howard Wilcox before the war doing films like Queen Victoria and 60 glorious years.SPEAKER: M5And there was a chap who worked for Paramount. What was his name. Dick Farrell who was a captain in Dick Farrell. Maybe that was after 9/11 by him. Yeah Richard.SPEAKER: M2But anyway we […]
[…]work with Waldo and I did, and got more and more hooked and said we've got to make this film somehow. There was a swap of producers, I sold it to the Paramount people, which is hotly disputed at Paramount. There was one head who wanted to do it and there was another that hated the whole idea because[…]
[…]es that I wrote for him, the film called Steppin' Out turned out to be much more successful than their usual low budget pictures and I got a job with Paramount as a writer, and um - then with Metro. And that was a hell of a job because I was assigned as a junior writer to Carey Wilson who was a very[…]
[…] least talented, but it was in the days when directors had too much power. I think and they weren't controlled and I can't remember the guys names at Paramount. The one guy in particular but again, very the the Jewish network if you like he gave Michael the carte blanche basically and he could do wh[…]
[…] because in the States, if one worked for CBS, then depending, a Vice President, for example, would have a corner office. But the size was...DS: Paramount....prescribed, yeah.DS: Yes. Well, I think it’s a bit like that now, it certainly is in Thames, especially in the drama department, the[…]
[…]e useful.Alf Tunwell: Well there was er, British Movietone News, there was Pathe Gazette, there was Universal News, there was Gaumont News, there was Paramount News and Topical Budget were either just in or just out, I'm not quite sure. They were just going out, fading out, or they were still in, I […]
[…]ordon Hales  37:38  No, I visited Universal I visited most of the studio's I had a certain amount of introductions. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer Paramount, was that them I saw some of the Chiefs but particularly I got to know the editors and was the guest stayed in the house of the assistant ed[…]
[…]and the quality was bad. But there was no question within a very short time of getting the the tape recorder the the question of editing became paramount. Now at that time and I certainly edited edited material for programmes in 1954 and it was done in a completely different way than the way i[…]
