[…]and McNaughton cut the second reel. And I...John Legard: R. Q. McNaughton I seem to remember?Pat Jackson: That's right! Marvellous cutter! Marvellous editor! And then, um... I'd previously been joining for Cavalcanti, I think 'Coalface' came out, just before... the little short, 'Coalface'. And I re[…]
[…]back to the cutting room to learn about filmmaking. And I spent several years after that, as a cutting room assistant. I couldn't even call myself an editor. I'll just give you the titles of these films. I must say that ecology didn't have the broader meaning, then, it had a tighter meaning. We thin[…]
[…]to go out as a Commando, out with No.4 Royal Marine Commando on D-Day with a detachment and one of the sergeants was Ernie Walter who later became an editor at MGM and we landed at D- Day on the beach at St Urban sur Mer [32.46] and I went through all the Normandy campaign until just at the time of […]
[…]bombed quite steadily at that point by the Italians, and later by the Germans. And Ray Pitt came back so - Thorold being a, well both he and Sid were editors really...Stephen Peet: Shall I just put on record the list of the people that...Philip Leacock: Yes surely.Stephen Peet: Because there were tw[…]
[…]ue I remember it bringing the house down when we had our first showing to the assembled war office. Shell had no, at that point there was no specific editors, we were all expected to edit our own films. At one point when we had rather a lot to do Arthur Elton said the camera department should do som[…]
[…]very close to Tory Central Office. wasn't he?Reg Sutton: No that was Gerald Sanger.Roy Fowler: Oh I beg your pardon.Reg Sutton: Now Gerald Sanger was editor, now he was Lord Rothermere's private secretary at the Daily Mail, also a director of the Daily Mail and a shareholder. And he was put into Mov[…]
[…] I beg your pardon. Reg Sutton: Now Gerald Sanger was editor, now he was Lord Rothermere's private secretary at the […]
[…] supernumerary and did every part. AY: That’s right but that was much, much, much later? TD: Years ago. AY: Yes, how editors learned their trade is beyond me. You had to be a natural didn’t you? You had to be able to do it. TD: When your editor[…]
[…]ays’ notice, so we scrabbled together and did the first show ourselves. Which I gather was an improvement. And I grabbed a light entertainment script editor a brilliant man called Gale Pedrick to say “two more shows to go, can’t do any harm, got any youngsters who need experience because we need som[…]
