[…]s for young people. And they also had a religious advisor, which is a wonderful man called Penry Jones. And they chose agnostics, actually, to be the editor, which was pretty brave actually. So it meant that the programming was not sanctimonious. It was, it was lively and questioning. And as an agno[…]
[…]irst day of the sort of assembly, and that was the day after finish shooting was five days from the start of the production. And on the Monday and my editor then Peter Musgrave said, No, we can't work on your film we've been blacked, and then I rang the laboratories and they said, Well, […]
[…] called Sunday In The Park which was a dreadfully facetious piece of work which we made on 16mm, staging many scenes. And a friend of mine who was an editor who I've subsequently worked with, Dick Marden had a producer friend who saw it, James Laurie his name was. He said I've got a friend at the BB[…]
[…] to have it as a Royal command performance. When we knew then, the Mudlark got it. And I think we were over at Shepperton and I think we had about 15 editors sound and picture editors trying to get the picture out. And Romulus we're going mad the money we were spending. But Al Lewin had the final sa[…]
[…]plit it down into units, then you arrive at a figure. Now in those early days, we did daily Gostin and we used to do split every salary right down to editorial camera department, the production unit, every salary person was split down, do a six have a day of the week be he these days would not be a […]
[…]back to the cutting room to learn about filmmaking. And I spent several years after that, as a cutting room assistant. I couldn't even call myself an editor. I'll just give you the titles of these films. I must say that ecology didn't have the broader meaning, then, it had a tighter meaning. We thin[…]
[…]p;of the various stock. It was done on a single one.Original negative taken and put through. If the editor decided he wanted a fade in, that piece of original negative was put in this little mach[…]
[…]spa: Did you do an apprenticeship in engineering. Geoff Conway: No. There were no apprenticeships at the time, during the war. It was just plain production line mostly. I was getting training in machine setting. Manny Yospa: Because there was quite a bit of training for mechanical work.&nb[…]
This material is the copyright of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan […]
