[…]at in olden days might have been referred to as “the bird”. The chief instigator was invariably Phil Penfold (The Newcastle Chronicle’s Entertainment editor) egged on by Keith Dufton (of The Sunday Sun) with Metro Radio DJ’s Paddy McDee, Steve Coleman and Dave Porter joining in with their own verbal[…]
[…]sport. Absolutely right, except sport. What I did not learn was shorthand. I did court reporting and I wrote with longhand, and the Editor said, “Look old boy, you really have got to learn shorthand.” And I tried and I was absolutely hopeless. And so after two years the[…]
[…]or women. I mean I didn’t want to be a secretary, I didn’t even want to type or anything like that. And, there seemed to be only continuity girls and editors. And of course, very early on my hero became David Lean, because at that time he was doing Great Expectations. I’d been, I’d been to Denham a […]
[…]I came home. When I left school in the summer term the end of the summer term of 1940 when I was 16 I came home and my father had talked to the Chief Editor or whatever he was called Managing Editor of the Surrey Times Group, the Surrey Advertiser Group in Guildford and they had agreed to take me on[…]
[…]t's not only clever with his artist, but he's also very clever from the visual side. That's why whoever, because I worked with David Lean when he was editor and I was camera, says a camp operator, and I was impressed with his sort of mind. But then again, he is, you might say, the nearest to Fritz L[…]
[…] made so many bad mistakes in conti- nuity that the editor had had to put the thing together in a […]
[…]e.malden@btinternet.com.Jim Clark Side 1======================================= SPEAKER: M1Right. This is about James Clark a distinguished film editor preferred to be called Jim actually rather than to say that from now on I'll call you Jim. For the record James. Yes yes. Anyway Jim yes we alw[…]
[…]And the Children’s Department was a very busy department. It was Muffin the Mule days. They did these plays which Pamela, Pamela was Script Editor of the whole of Children’s Television. She was Script Editor for it and she did oh, a serial or a play nearly every... which I did wi[…]
Dallas Bower Side 1Alan Lawson 00:02Dallas Bower: producer, television director, television producer, sound recordist, film editor, drama producer. Dallas, when and where were you born?Dallas Bower 00:19Kensington Hall Gardens, London 1907.Alan Lawson 00:2[…]
[…]p;1:22:56 business. Oh, yes, it was it was tough. But then the man that was put an accountant was put in for the debtors for the for the creditors. And the it was rather a nice young man. I forgotten his name now. But he said, Look, he said, we've got the camera. We've got a lot of negati[…]
