Interview

[…]ad a four-man crew to operate what we now do as a one-man job in studios. We had a Sound Mixer. We had an assistant Sound Mixer. We had a senior tape editor and, you know, player and a four-person in any given studio crew and that's, you know, not realistic but it was what we did at the time. You fo[…]

Larry Allen

[…]ung days I went as a freelance engineer as well. So making a 'What the Butler Saw' machine wasn't hard at all. Matter of fact there's a man, he's the editor of 'The Animator', I don't know whether you've seen this paper, it's called 'The Animator' and - all movie books you see. He wrote to me, he sa[…]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]opyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Peggy Rignold, make-up artist, later to become Mrs Hyde-Chambers, wife of the film editor, and later to work for Lew Grade as an administrator. Recorded on the twenty-eighth of May 1995. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side One.First when a[…]

Freddie Francis

[…]next thing we knew, everybody was coming into this unit. So instead of being a one man Film Unit, there I was surrounded by Carol Reed, Ray Pitt, the editor, Thorold Dickinson of course, and all sorts of people Tilly Day, Angela Martelli, Tubby of course was there, and Peter Ustinov. He used to come[…]

Harold Myers

[…]only a holiday job, but it was a foot and subsequently, through friends. Is I got a break with a daily film enter. I joined there in 1935 who was the editor of the Yeah, that was 1935 and I stayed there until the outbreak of war, and I went back after the war for a short period.Sid Cole  5:20 &[…]

Jack Hildyard

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Mat Irvine

[…]They had Friday's off I think so Monday, you went into the Kensington house down off shepherds, Bush, you'd go down there you have a meeting with the editor and the trainee assistant producers coming in who were doing individual stories. And you'd work through and you say, Well, I want and they they[…]

Peter Graham Scott

[…]ots with David, and of course they worked together like a piece of beautiful clockwork), and Charles Friend, (who also became a director) who was the editor! And I got to know all these people. But particularly, David Lean. Oh, and I also knew Deborah Kerr, got to know Deborah Kerr, who was 16 years[…]

Ron Goodwin

[…]Speaker  21:33  How did it happen?Speaker 2  21:38  Well, I remember the the guy that taught me quite a lot about all that was an editor called Cliff boot. And not Jeff foot, but Cliff boot. Now, I don't know if Cliff boot still alive, or where he is, or I totally lost touch with[…]
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