[…]nly somebody said what are you going to donow and I said I don't know and they said there's a man called ListerLawrence starting very shortly to edit Paramount quota films in thesame studio, why don't you go and see him. I saw him and he took me onas his sole assistant. At that point I knew nothing […]
[…]the head booker. But very often they wouldn't make appointments with companies like British Lion, they would probably make an appointment with MGM or Paramount. We small independents had to have the crumbs from the rich man's table, so though we were selling in those days what I considered to be ver[…]
[…]ol could never understand that whatsoever. certainly wasn't allowed, as you rightly said in Metro none of them over there now we're now in touch with Paramount now.Jim Shields 14:10 If you work with American he does not smell and visual. Or Dom I've noticed and react.John Hargreaves &nbs[…]
[…]Forest patent, the AEO-light, which Movietone had acquired and it made sound newsreels possible. And when other newsreels started up such as Gaumont, Paramount, Pathe, they had much more clumsy equipment. Pathe had Visatone recording on a separate recorder instead of in the camera. The recorder of c[…]
[…]g your pardon, a Canadian chappie Then we had Red Law. He was a very, very good type of mixer, very quick, very good, I believe, originally came from Paramount news. And he was at Paramount news for many, many years. And the other chiefs of sound we had, I can't I think one was called Mr. Smit[…]
[…]nted to ask me aboutInterviewer 12:36 when you touched on that slightly withGeoff Labram 12:38 Vista Vision, of course, was a paramount idea, intended to achieve better picture quality by not only photographing on an image of twice the size, but also projecting in the cinema […]
[…] about the rivalries between the newsreel companies – Gaumont, Movietone, Paramount, Pathé, Universal – are a treat. For instance: at […]
[…]there’s no grain, that was the big thing. But of course, when CinemaScope came out it was now the big wide screen and Rank went into VistaVision with Paramount. The big problem was cameras weren’t ready at that time, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen one, but before they arrived there was a camera te[…]
[…]bsp; Q: The Paramount?00:30:48 JIM WHITTELL: The Paramount, yes the Paramount Bullring. &nb[…]
