[…]n in the lift from the top of the tower at Alexandra Palace forthe morning news meeting when I was confronted by an enormous New Zealander who was theeditor of News called Taho Hole. He was a big man and he was a nice man actually. He said'you are out John?' and I said ‘what do you mean out?'. He sa[…]
[…] - I remember - quite a well-known picture - '77 Park Lane' was made there. A host of stuff. That's where I met Mickey Powell you see. Because he was editor I think, to start with, and then he 'shacked up' with a man called Jerry Jackson who had some American connections and they made quota films to[…]
[…]o at all until I saw a photograph of him in the paper and of course I knew immediately that was one and the same chap you, know. Because he became an editor first of all didn't he?John Taylor: Yes.Charles Wilder: Yeah.John Taylor: But what about the other people there who you were friendly with?Char[…]
[…]ould use your education more effectively somewhere else’. And she kept, and she was always looking out for, for jobs and the job came up of a journal editor and research officer in ACTT, so I applied and was kind of [Laughter] interviewed by the entire Executive which was odd, I mean the only thing […]
[…]p;going to of course was in charge of all our animation work. He'd been an editor in the film unit and resolve principal editor and dangerous Scottish when the&[…]
[…]called Jonah Jones and Chick Fowle and we had a studio carpenter-come- handyman and everything else, so you could say we had, oh we had one permanent editor, so we had a total staff of about six or seven.Roy Fowler: The studio itself was it an old church or what was it?Norman Fisher: No, it was an o[…]
[…]anager of Movietone, and a director in Fox -20th Century Fox - films, and eventually I think we got to see Tommy Scales, who gave me the job, who was editor of Movietone, through Sir Gordon Craig presumably, and this wasn't a push job, it was a question of, em....how really one needed relatives to b[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]nt to Spain with Sid Cole, Ivor Montagu, Ray Pitt and Phil Leacock, you and I went as cameramen, and Sid and Thorold as directors and Phil and Ray as editors. We were there about 3 months and we saw the road rapidly going to be cut between Madrid and Barcelona and we came back to Barcelona, I stayed[…]
