Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

 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 […]

Keith Ewart

[…]ck biting. I mean, it was everybody very nice, very, very nice. It was a nice, clean business, actually, always, attrition between me and the fashion editor.Roy Fowler  18:47  Standards, standards. What I don't mean standards, standard of work. Oh, very high. Oh,Keith Ewart  18:56 &nb[…]

Alan Izod

[…]d that this seemed at the time to be my metier was editing. I loved it totally enjoyed it. And we had a good team of people. There, a number of other editors I worked alongside one of them I remember well, and with affection was man called Derek Hyde chambers. And Derek became quite a well known edi[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]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[…]

Erica Masters

[…] very unpleasant woman who was above me, who was the editor. She made me cry because she would come in […]

Alan Lawson

[…] was working with Teddy Damos as an assistant to the editor. After a year and a half he moved to […]

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[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]t we wanted to do. And that was to make it, it was going to be a report about a different subject every week. And Tony Jay was going to be the script editor as far as all his satirical comment was concerned, Tony Jay who wrote Yes minister Later. He was the script editor that side. I was appointed t[…]
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