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While talking about their first movies with Sampaguita Pictures, Bella Flores talks about how she wrestled with Lillian Leonardo on ‘Kilabot sa Makiling!’

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00:00The talent field!

00:02Let's watch the first movie first.

00:04What's your first movie?

00:06Me! I know, I remember.

00:08Very first, in Tabelia.

00:10Kilabot sa Makiling.

00:12I was given a screen test there.

00:14I was brought here by our friends.

00:16Did you have a contraband?

00:18Not yet, not yet.

00:20I was given a screen test in Sapa fight scene.

00:22Kilabot sa Makiling with Oscar Moreno

00:24and Lilian Neolardo.

00:26There are screen tests.

00:28We had a fight scene at the swamp.

00:30That's where I fell.

00:32And I fell.

00:34We had a fight scene at the top of a mountain.

00:3615 feet below

00:38or 30 feet below.

00:40But the net of the fireman hit us.

00:42So you were doing

00:44your own stunts?

00:46No.

00:48I told Lilian,

00:50when we were at the edge,

00:52I told her to turn around.

00:54She didn't turn around.

00:56But the net of the fireman

00:58hit us.

01:00It hit the cement.

01:02You know what?

01:04Honest to the truth is

01:06I was dead in so many seconds.

01:08You were dead?

01:10Yes.

01:12I lost consciousness.

01:14For me, my first movie here in Sampaguita

01:16was introduced

01:18by me

01:20and Lolita Rodriguez.

01:22The title of my movie

01:24was

01:26Piliya.

01:28Piliya.

01:30That's a good title.

01:32It suits you.

01:34I did an extra first

01:36between Marikit

01:38with Amalia and Juancho.

01:40Sinong Maysala, Romay Vasquez

01:42and Susan.

01:44That's where I started.

01:46You, James?

01:48Susan Susay Susy starring Susan Rosas.

01:50I hope.

01:52Lito was there

01:54and also Marie.

01:56I was one of the sidekicks

01:58of one of the Susan there.

02:00With the help

02:02of Director Rosa Mia,

02:04I met her

02:06at Rita Gomez's house.

02:08I asked her if I could

02:10be an extra in her movie.

02:12She asked me to go to Sampaguita

02:14for a shooting.

02:16My first movie here in Sampaguita

02:18was All Over The World.

02:20I was with

02:22Eddie Gutierrez,

02:24Josephine Estrada,

02:26Rox Marie,

02:28Sonora.

02:30James was also there.

02:32I didn't do

02:34a screen test.

02:36I studied

02:38to improve

02:40my voice.

02:42I enrolled in the Chemists Guild.

02:44I studied

02:46to improve my voice.

02:48I also studied

02:50to improve my talent.

02:52Talent fee?

02:54Talent fee.

02:56Talent fee?

02:5825 pesos per movie?

03:00Per week.

03:02Because I was under contract.

03:04I got 75 pesos

03:06per movie.

03:08My first contract,

03:10I signed up in 1963

03:12and for four years,

03:14my first movie was 75 pesos.

03:16Then the second year,

03:18it will be...

03:20Why are you so cheap?

03:22Of course, we didn't start there.

03:24But I'm 500 pesos.

03:26You're famous now.

03:28500 pesos per movie.

03:32Why am I different?

03:34Because I signed up

03:36for a contract here

03:38for four years.

03:402,000 pesos.

03:42Wow!

03:48You're lucky because my allowance

03:50is 30 pesos per week.

03:52200 pesos per movie.

03:54That's why I got 3,000 pesos

03:56when I got my first starring role

03:58with Susan.

04:00So, Lito, I'll do it for 10 days.

04:02How much is 2,000 pesos?

04:04200 pesos.

04:06How are you?

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