[…]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[…]
[…] I went out. There was Alf Tungwell for I think Paramount and Dennis Towler I think for Universal and myself […]
[…]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 […]
[…] people, all...mostly from um...[hesitates] er School[?] Road, up in er Paramount er... Alan Lawson: Oh yes, yes...Paramount News... Cyril Page: […]
[…]? What did...Cyril Page: [interrupts] They all came. They were all experienced people, all...mostly from um...[hesitates] er School[?] Road, up in er Paramount er...Alan Lawson: Oh yes, yes...Paramount News...Cyril Page: Yep, all that lot um...mostly...Alan Lawson: Oh really?Cyril Page: Yep, most of[…]
[…]uld like to take you to lunch. And there was a lovely…it’s gone now sadly, but there old, very traditional thing outside, just outside those gates at Paramount called [Oblatz?] and so I go into [Oblatz?] to have lunch with Bob Gottschalk and as he was paying for it I let him finish his soup and then[…]
[…]rise, was it not? 00:30:50ADOLPH:Yes. Q:Can you tell us about … 00:30:52ADOLPH:You see you had a, you had Pathé, Gaum-, Gaumont, Paramount, and Universal. Q:And Movietone. 00:31:09ADOLPH:Yes. Q:And all these newsreels were very much in competition with one a[…]
[…]bsp; Q: The Paramount?
00:30:48 JIM WHITTELL: The Paramount, yes the Paramount Bullring.
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[…]ady done the. Film of the relief of pure bogon those sort of things. And so we're left and started working for Jim Muller who was the chief editor of Paramount news until he opened his own business.[00:11:15.040] - SPEAKER: F1 Has stayed with him for a while and then persuaded features to persu[…]
