(robert parrish) i was a ten-year-old kid in school.nd i worked on the paramount back lot, on the swing gang at night. there was a depression all over the world, every place in the world except hollywood. and they wanted the product that came from hollywood. so there were jobs for everybody. i don't know anybody that was ever out of work. they would make, in the height of the era, the 30's and 40's, 52 films a year. it's not... an unpredictable number. that's the number of weeks in a year. (robert parrish) unless a picture came out about every week, they had no product. and the people in singapore were not entertained. everything just went crazy when sound came in. we did pictures day and night and just get a lot of them out, because there was a big demand and we didn't have pictures out so we just had to make lots of them right then. they had an assembly stage where we built the sets. the minute they finished a set, it struck, moved out and the other ones moved in. and that's the only way they were able to do it. and i can remember the