[…] a pleasant place to be. John Maxwell, who owned it, was a nasty sort of unpleasant man, and a horrible little man named Walter Mycroft was the story editor. Hitch very cruelly used to say of Mycroft - Mycroft was a hunchback - and Hitch very cruelly used to say: "If you break his back open you'll f[…]
[…]toker, and we built this signal box on the stage and there was a scene of Jack creeping up outside and listening to what was going on inside. But the editor when we saw the rushes had dubbed on it a lot of dirty stories so when it came out on the rushes we heard Jack listening a lot of dirty stories[…]
[…] It was all processed in London, and, in fact, a good deal of the final sound stages were done in London. We laid tracks, but we didn't have a proper dubbing facility out there at that did you have a recording facility out there? Yes, we did, mainly on quarter inch tape, because Baghdad radio had tw[…]
[…] producer, the director, the art director, the cameraman, possibly the editor and that was it. And I think these [rolls/rows […]
[…] a horrible little man named Walter Mycroft was the story editor. Hitch very cruelly used to say of Mycroft - […]
[…]to political activists beating up women and doing all sorts of things. (TIME 58.11)DARROL BLAKE: Did you follow the project through to the editing anddubbing, and ...?RENÉE GLYNNE: No, no. I turned up at the editing and dubbing but I didn’t doall the filming because thereby hangs a very interesting […]
[…]is life finished a sentence but an absolute key man in, in the history of the industry in the Thirties. It was Harry Miller who was the first serious dubbing editor, the first man actually who created soundtracks in this country, mm… So were people who had, were interviewers encouraged to do th[…]
[…]bsp; Anyway, it went out live. Apart from a bit of filming, you know, it was live. And the guy that lived next door to me was the showbiz editor at that time, later became editor of the Daily Mail, Peter Brittenden [Arthur Brittenden?] And he came to my door, knocked at my door and said […]
[…]erbal diarrhoea and a nice woman but not of what I might call an artistic bent. [LAUGHTER] Who else now, Peter Tanner was a very nice man, he was the editor who I gathered died recently. Roy Fowler 4:22 Well, I hadn't heard he died. Jonathan Balcon 4:[…]
