Adolph Simon

[…]rise, was it not? 00:30:50​ADOLPH:​Yes. ​Q:​Can you tell us about … 00:30:52​ADOLPH:​You see you had a, you had Pathé, Gaum-, Gaumont, Paramount, and Universal. ​Q:​And Movietone. 00:31:09​ADOLPH:​Yes. ​Q:​And all these newsreels were very much in competition with one a[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]seas assignments I did. One was the blowing up of the Heligoland UBoat Pens which was quite something. I went out. There was Alf Tungwell for I think Paramount and Dennis Towler I think for Universal and myself for BBC Newsreel. The operation was going to be viewed from the seas but we wanted someth[…]

Eric Cross

[…]m Togus or their own system, their own sound system.Arthur Graham: You went there actually as a Cameraman?Eric Cross: Yes, an operator, I did all the Paramount quickies and every time I thought I was going to get a film they'd import a German or a French cameraman, or an American Cameraman, we were […]

Charles Picken

[…]ook round and to shed a few tears at tales and memories of happy times shared collectively at this unit. The site opened on September 7, 1931 (as The Paramount) and had proudly served the North East for 71 glorious years. CHAPTER 12 THE NEW BEGINNING - November 28, 2002 It was a case […]

Kent Houston

[…]der, okay? "Beyond Borders", yeah. Kent Houston  30:13  "Beyond Borders", again, was a job for Martin Campbell. It came from Paramount, and it's a lovely film, really, about international medical relief and charity. Again, didn't do terribly well in the box office, but a gre[…]

John Krish

[…]dest, kind American - not too many of those. He was so diffident, so easily embarrassed in spite of his great knowledge. He was the make-up editor at Paramount News in America before he was seconded to the OWI. When I first went to meet him it was like walking into a clich�. He was sitting at his de[…]
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