[…]fficult to keep the image very clean so you, the camera original was physically edited in the early days of High Road. Later on we were able to shoot neg, which meant that it would go away for processing and the Editor would get a print back which he would physically cut up. He would send that away […]
[…]es Wilder: I know she used to work at Beaconsfield.John Taylor: Oh Gwyn's mother?Margaret Thomson: Yes.Charles Wilder: Hmm.John Taylor: Yes she was a negative cutter, yes.Charles Wilder: Oh negative cutter, hmm. I knew she was in the film industry. So it really and truly...Margaret Thomson: And then[…]
[…]l Council eventually you see. And I was on General Council for a few years and Executive Council and sub committees and things. And I was involved in negotiations for the 1947 agreement, which was the first post-war - the main agreement that started it all for so long. It was almost a standard that […]
[…] : Oh we did, yes we did! They used to neg. cut two or three takes together maybe, at the […]
[…]d you have a rushes book, which has then slate and scene and all the rest of it in one book. But in those days, everything being on optical, you have neg numbers, of course, the soundtrack as well. So he always insisted that I have another book, which prepared will also cross referenced,[…]
[…]ances Cockburn, who became important in the COI later on, was just a young kid of 14 in the cutting room when I was there. There were two redoubtable neg cutters, whose names I can't remember, these, these women that were so so very powerful in the early days of filmmaking, they were nearly all very[…]
[…], yes I think I...Or an OBE or something like that, I think it was MBE for her work at Crown Film Unit.I think I did know.And of course, she’d been a neg cutter in features years before.10Vivienne Collins Tape 1 Side AYes, yes, I think I did know that. And I, I, there were about four of us trainees […]
[…]ld be presented to the BBC, although it was shot colour the BBC would have a black and white print. So the colour went through a black and white dupe neg and then they made a print and they had an optical print, but the BBC also had a separate magnetic track as well so that if anything went wrong th[…]
[…]l sort of what I call I can only describe as mahogany look about them? Well,yeah, and when we came back here, whenever we had a preprint, I mean, the negative came back to West writing. Week, and when we have the copies made, we could never achieve this. And I was told that it was either something t[…]
