[…]with group three for a few months. And I remember the person who got the creditors executive producer was John Baxter. Yes very nice charming man but he only&nb[…]
[…]ood film. And we had lots of other films there. While I was up there, they also had the Oxford Film Unit. And we made a film and I was the editor. I was meant to be the assistant director, but unfortunately I did something to my finger and was in bed while they were shooting.&n[…]
[…]erview with Marion GriersonInterviewer: Margaret Thompson MT: This is Margaret Thompson interviewing Marion Grierson; documentary film director, editor reporter, literary editor and writer.these were the professions that she followed in the early years of documentary filmmaking. She later went […]
[…]an: Well I think 'World in Action' has been a tremendous struggle for the peoplemaking it. Since Tim Hewat, it has had a succession of brave and bold editors including RayFitzwalter. World in Action puts more strain on a company management than any other programme.I had more problems with World in A[…]
[…]ost live action sound is done afterwards and stuck on. With us it weren't like that, that's why I was a bit annoyed when good old ACTT said that film editors in animation aren't paid the right rate. Well, that's because nobody seemed to know that they didn't do the same work as live action. They cer[…]
[…]ybody. The people who were laying soundtracks were decidedly opposed to it in the beginning. They couldn't, as they said, See the mods. Skilled sound editors in those days were quite capable of looking at a soundtrack and forming a pretty good idea of what was on it just by looking at it. And certai[…]
[…]ut, I couldn't help it, I said why, I don't need him, I'm picking it up off the other fel low - I learnt a lot from that simple sentence, this was an editor who knew exactly what he was going to use. David Lean impressed me tremendously, to this day he is one of the top half dozen, Carol Reed,SC: Wh[…]