[…] just on the ball, were we just politically more aware than other people? But it got very very frustrating at times, because we’d go to commissioning editors and we’d say, ‘Look, there’s this issue that’s boiling and burning up, but it’s not right at the front of the agenda. Can we make a film about[…]
[…]ked for him. And I’m pretty certain that Jim produced Up The Junction, which Tony Garnett always takes credit for. I think Tony was in fact the story editor on it but I’m sure he didn’t produce it as such.No.So in, to a certain extent, you know, what, what he was good at, even the people who knew hi[…]
[…]cular people with whom you work within the longer associations I'm thinking of, you know, did you have cameramen within the window number of jobs are editors for example. Derek Williams 24:12I worked with a number of cameramen. But Maurice Pico is especially associated with my films. Jame[…]
[…]n in the lift from the top of the tower at Alexandra Palace forthe morning news meeting when I was confronted by an enormous New Zealander who was theeditor of News called Taho Hole. He was a big man and he was a nice man actually. He said'you are out John?' and I said ‘what do you mean out?'. He sa[…]
[…]son's England. I was really quite frightened of that however I did it and it went ok.TD: Did you find it difficult, did you get measurements from the editor, did you find it difficult to work out. timing.Alexander Faris : In that case, I can't quite remember, I didn't have to do many fine timings, I[…]
[…]ields: He wasn't a bad bloke was Red Law was he?Maurice Askew: No, no...Jim Shields: Burns Red! [Chuckles]Maurice Askew: [Chuckles] Brilliant dubbing editor.Jim Shields: Ex Naval man, of course.Maurice Askew: Of course [Hulton?] was absolutely new you know, it had just been installed - it all worked[…]
[…]the way the scene should go, on coming to the rushes. Everyday she'd come and insist on seeing the rushes. And she did, and I sat at the back with my editor and I thought, "What the hell is she going to do this time?" She always used to sit in the front, and she came running up the steps to me after[…]
