[…]t that was thebeginning of everything. He said well they need someone in the cuttingroom at Elstree. I'd never heard of the cutting room. I'd heard ofediting but I always thought editing was where the director, I'd read alot of books by Pudovkin and people and they'd all been sitting therewith film […]
[…] of activity this business which I hadn't previously experienced, and that's what it was anyway. Yes, so the I don't know what the question was about editing, but it didn't mean that I didn't have a lot to learn about editing if I was talking about Sandy McKendrick standards. But then your commercia[…]
[…]nk that which we used to use the join the film smells like pear drops, just still like funnily enough. And so you know, I started on my career in the editing rooms at the very lowest level, reclaiming unused film, we used to send it to a factory where they used to process it to get the silver back f[…]
[…]ay. I wasn't in the union. He was aware of that I said Of course I can. And that side started dealing on a certain Monday morning in the in the Sound Editing Department on the Ted Field Thunderbolt which Charlie cried and was directing and I was working with Mary have a field who was the sound edito[…]
[…]first series I came back. I, I was also, I’ll tell you, I'd forgotten, I edited before I, while I was still a PA and before I became a director I was editing the commercials out of The Perry Como Show, which the BBC was showing with great success from about ‘57ish.Mm.John Street started doing t[…]
[…] a PA and before I became a director I was editing the commercials out of The Perry Como Show, which […]
[…]And then, I started going down to Saturday Club recording sessions. And then gradually went from working in control room and continuity to tape editing which I was very keen on… you know, cutting up tape with a razor blade. And I specialised after a while in music editing, particul[…]
[…] a lot, and in my final year at Leeds I was making my graduation film.Now I'd been doing, as I said I'd been making films with my clockwork Bolex and editing them all on our little Acmade picsync which was okay but not ideal. But one of the other opportunities at Leeds was to get a taste of televisi[…]
[…]at I should be allowed to go intofilms, into documentaries specifically, and I went to Merlin Films with Mike Hankinson, where I did my initial basic editing training. &[…]
