[…]that year I learnt more about film than I would ever have learnt at any school, because you know we were working six days a week - filming two days - editing, two days - in the studio one day with Bob Monkhouse - playing back the stuff we had shot while Bob improvised a commentary and we had Sunday […]
[…]Together?Dicky Leeman: No. That was just finished before I got there. But I met Dicky Attenborough there at the time. But no, I was working mostly in editing with Peter Baylis, who unfortunately died, he was a really good editor. And he was in the RAF Film Unit throughout the war, and again I learnt[…]
[…]I became a freelance. I was only at work for four hours.Yes, the first two when I got to beta clock, and at noon, the phone rang for over the cutting editing job. And I've been a freelance ever since.I mean, I've always had a little store by being being a freelance that I did you ever wanted to belo[…]
[…]h and German copy.They were not at all happy about the title I had chosen. Cranko’s Castle. They wanted Eine Stuttgarter von South Africa.Some of the editing problems were as a result of German and English because German takes longer to say than English. We did every interview in both English and Ge[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 189 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-10-30Interview Date: 1991-03-18Interviewers: Alan Lawson and Manny YospaInterviewee: Leonard HarrisTape 1, Side 1 Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Leonard Harris: Well I was born here - just up the[…]
[…]out six months after my first one and, you know, we had au pairs and people, but mostly at that time it was writing, you know, I was doing...PdN: And editing.And editing. No, no, that was after the second one I became an editor, I went to the CoalBoard and that’s where I obviously met Ralph Elton, a[…]

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[…] that I did leav e Granada but Martin Smith was editing it for me, Martin said he was leaving too […]
