[…] the army. In 1952 he joined Technicolour as Assistant Assembly Editor working with the three matrices. This was suggested as […]
[…] worked on It Always Rains, but Crichton was an Ealing-based editor and director who knew Robert Hamer, and the film’s […]
[…]and and, and and Kevin wanted me to actually do, but I didn't really understand what it was I sort of repeated it parrot fashion and left it with the editors and hope that they will be able to do too. But yeah, so that was I didn't really understand the processes and but then after that they had sho[…]
[…]ar with it. Yes, I think Peter Watkins seeing that film and talking with Kevin Brownlow, because they were colleagues. Peter Watkins was an assistant editor for Kevin Brownlow for a few years. And I think that he preferred to work with somebody who wasn’t going to bring a lot of baggage of experienc[…]
[…] difference to the volume of production. Things were changing, of course, in the network as well. There was the new network set-up, the Commissioning Editors that were set up by the network to commission programmes so you had to sell all your ideas through these Commissioning Editors, which could be[…]
[…]lish actually.Oh.K-a-m-l-i-s-h.Y es.And we, I had a brother Harris Kamlish who was director of advertising for Odham’s.Oh yes.And one was in the editorial. They all had very big jobs in that.Y es.They were very bright lads, but all of them IP, IPC.Isn’t that interesting, yes?With Odham’s Press.[…]
[…]t of them still around?Oh yes. When I finally went to Channel Four, this is quite funny, thirteen years ago, Mike Custer [ph 31:41] was arts features editor.SF: Yes, indeed he was.And he walked in, he walked past, I’d not met him. He walked past and, Naomi Sergeant, kind of paused him and said ‘Oh M[…]
[…], if Roy went back, who did the rest of the editing, did, can you remember, and the sound?Well there was Clifford Boote.Oh yes.Clifford Boote was the editor. So I suppose he did, but Roy was very, a very hands-on editor, you know. So that, I don't quite remember whether he came back at intervals, it[…]
[…]. Well, the first shot, I put the board in and, because in those days you put the board at the beginning and turned it upside down at the end, so the editor knew which was the start, which was the finish, and er...Anyway, all the numbers fell out, for start - That...that, you know, upset me a bit...[…]