[…] thing which is not my idea of fun really! It is quite tedious! So I really wanted a job in VT which is video tape, because I was quite interested in editing but anyway, during my year of training, you get taken round all the departments so that is how you get an idea of what you want to do. So, I h[…]
[…] and it gave you about 4 minutes?Philip Donnellan: Yes it gave you about 4 on soft acetate. Now the problem of soft acetate is the overall problem of editing. It's great if you can just use those discs once for an interview situation. Even then you had to, you'd have to mark them up for transm[…]
[…]ay to go visit didn't you.SPEAKER: M2So then John said Well he was not only second in command of the studio under Ian Dalrymple but he was also still editing. And he took me into his and showed me a reality. Just finished editing.SPEAKER: M6>From a film called before the raid about the raid on ph[…]
[…]an assistant was rejectionist, an assistant editor editor did some directing decided it wasn't suited to me or I wasn't suited to it and went back to editing.Ian Noah 1:35 Thank you very, very much. And thank you for giving us an opportunity to interview you for the effective oral histor[…]
[…] there was all this rather huge Ampex tape. I think it was two inch for cement joins, and so I learnt about that and joined all that, took ages editing things then. My goodness. So we did his obituary and carried on with ‘What’s My Line’ for a bit. Alan Lawson: Just to stop yo[…]
[…]lf, which I won't bore you with that, however. And he said, right, this is the best place for you. I'll get you a job at MGM and you start off in the editing room as a numbering boy,Unknown Speaker 36:15 what what age would you have been there?Speaker 2 36:18 I was 16. I was […]
[…]ou know.
Yes, I used to go down there a great deal too.
Yes. Yah. And, so, you know, I had begun to, to formulate more what I wanted to do, and editing seemed to be the most interesting job. And at that time I wanted to be a director, and I reckoned that I, you know, I was going to be God’s gi[…]
[…]oud, so I moderated it after that. There was an idea of going into the camera department and that didn't work. But I started learning something about editing because Thorold Dickinson was editing films there and I became an assistant to him and started learning about how films were really made.AI : […]
[…] and that didn't work. But I started learning something about editing because Thorold Dickinson was editing films there and I […]
[…]stuff had to be got back to the labs at Finsbury Park, and from Finsbury Park by motorcyclists brought, again, in ten minute chunks to Lime Grove for editing. And there were many a night when the programme started on the air and the last roll of film wasn’t there, I mean, out of the question, […]
