Julia Cave

[…]ssex.Julia Cave: Tony Essex.  Yes of course.Alan Lawson: He was not an easy man.Julia Cave: He was a ‘driven’ man.  He was a brilliant film editor on the ‘Tonight’ programme I think, and I learnt a very great deal from him in the cutting room, later when I got to that stage I can talk more[…]

John Shearman

[…]t time try to get into it,Unknown Speaker  19:53  not enterprising enough or something.Unknown Speaker  19:57  Had you become the editor by the.Unknown Speaker  20:00  This time by the you know, before the war,Unknown Speaker  20:03  he, I think I was editing […]

Richard (Dickie) Best

DICKIE BEST Tape 1 of 115th July 1987.Interview of Richard Best, editor, interviewer Arthur Graham.Copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.SIDE 1, TAPE 1AG: Richard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about[…]

Carol Owens

[…]ously in my final year I started applying for jobs and I applied for the Trainee Assistant Producer scheme in London BBC and also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Editor. And I think I went to Yorkshire TV or Granada or is it, not sure w[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]y Project - Interview No. 221[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date:Interview Dates: 8 November 1991 Interviewer: John Legard Interviewee: Teddy Darvas, EditorTape 1 Side A (Side 1)John Legard: Teddy, let us start with your early days. Can you tell us where you were born and who your parents were […]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]azine, we got to know about films. We went to films and ended up knowing a bit. And the good thing about Sequence was that it was a discovery for its editors.Also it wasn't in any way theoretical or academic, even though it did start at Oxford. So that for instance the French influence which came la[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]ing like that and talking about rashes there too. In rashes, quite a lot of directors only allowed the lighting caravan of the director and maybe the editor, but artists will quite often not allowed into the into the theatre, the writers theatre and also the no other people these days you look aroun[…]

Kitty Wood (Morrison)

[…]a big link, let's face it, between continuity...Kitty Wood : Very much so...Jim Connock : I always look upon the continuity girl as being the sort of editor's representative on the floor.Kitty Wood : Hmm, that's right.Jim Connock : In fact there was a time, I don't think it happens quite as much now[…]

Pat Jackson

[…] seem to remember? Pat Jackson: That's right! Marvellous cutter! Marvellous editor! And then, um... I'd previously been joining for Cavalcanti, […]
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