[…] and turned it upside down at the end, so the editor knew which was the start, which was the finish, […]
[…] Do I mean her? Launder and Gilliat had a woman editor. Thelma Myers, I thought it was. There was Dora […]
[…]e telecine department probably numbered about thirty people per shift all told. Video tape was considerably larger because you included all the video editors and people, so that was about sixty or seventy people to a shift. That was a much bigger department in those days but, still, there was about […]
[…] difference to the volume of production. Things were changing, of course, in the network as well. There was the new network set-up, the Commissioning Editors that were set up by the network to commission programmes so you had to sell all your ideas through these Commissioning Editors, which could be[…]
[…]ore creative side and I did want to get into the cutting rooms. And then aftera few years there was a vacancy you can order Manchester from assistant editor on staff. So I applied for that and I did. And when I got there I was only there for two 2 1/2 years and I could see that I was never going to […]
[…]tion of their revenues in exchange for being allowed to sell the airtime on Channel 4. So the separation between the financial responsibility and the editorial responsibility gave the new channel terrific freedom. And the third thing it had that was lucky was a Chief Executive who was really absolut[…]