[…]brought up in Hornsea but her sister was Frank Launder's first wife. So that's really why I was at the service.Roy Fowler: And Frank was a story editor was he not there?E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, he certainly was not. No, Frank was then a very junior writer, or fairly junior writer. In Roy Bo[…]
[…]ffice and I rang George and I told George I said ‘George, you know Ihave been organising this unit - I can’t remember its name’- I knew the editor, that’s right, she was Dorothy Stimpson, the editor. I said ‘I have organised this unit .....would I let her observe everything and I assured t[…]
[…]ir, they had the cutting rooms in the basement. [TIME 00.14.59] So, itwasn’t long before I could go in there to work as a trainee assistant editor actually, because just after I started with Dimitri there had been a young fellow, who you mayknow of, a man called Antony Balch who had left a[…]
[…] that he had been an actor, which he had been, of course in Zed cars. But he had been working with Ken Loach and so on. And, and he was in as a story editor. And there was there was a very good play, written by John Hopkins, which was about a very rich time, good play. And it was about South Africa […]
[…]als because we weren’t, then join them up again, and I used to do that. Alan Richardson, but primarily Richard Berkeley who was a...[35:03]Yes.A film editor, he used to, to look after those. And I used to rush down there and edit them and tidy them up for transmission here and put them on the screen[…]
[…]tually took over the editing side of it after the death of me. Ex newsreel editor who edited it for quite a number of years and died tragically young. It'l[…]
[…]nbsp;John I. John was it British Transport films. I think John was an assistant editor. I remember John as an assistant editor. Remember John used to sit on the[…]
[…]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&[…]
