Crinoid
09-05-2003, 10:58 PM
FILM EDITORS GUILD
The committee has approached the Film and TV School for a grant to conduct workshops through 1973. Last year workshops were held for junior members and proved an unqualified success. However, at that stage materials used were supplied free of charge by Roger Mirams and Eric Porter Productions. We cannot always depend on the goodwill of cooperative organisations however much they are willing to assist.
Nick Beauman is writing a personal letter to all persons eligible for membership with the guild. Membership is disappointingly small considering that in Sydney there are approximately 185 editors, assistants and neg matchers. The ABC alone employs approximately 70 in this area. It's quite frustrating the number of production houses who do not even attempt to support the guild. It is quite remarkable that these people choose to ignore the need for a strong united body which can represent them and work for them by providing a common ground for the flow of ideas, techniques and information in an area which lives on technical expertise. Consider the position where editors would rather join a foreign union to enjoy benefits of higher rates but would not work at obtaining high qualifications and respect of the industry. Editors unite for united editors!!
Tom Cowan's simple masterpiece "The Office Picnic" came in for some strange questioning when screened at the february meeting. And as in the style of the film, T. C. answered all critics with unarming simplicity. A beautifully balanced film. Excellent script, direction, photography (Mike Edols) casting and acting, but marred somewhat by bad negative handling. An overly critical audience. A thoughtful film.
Richard Hindley jetted back from London to start on APA's feature E force 1 time bomb. Shooting and cutting in progress.
Tim Reed producing at Lindfield.
Nick Beauman is alive, well and back on deck with EPs.
Tony Buckley in London finishing off Don Quixote with Nureyev.
Gregory Ropert still in Amsterdam, his film Willy willy to be finally released in Australia. David Huggett doing opticals on his marathon editing effort Once around the sun (OATS).
A closing piece from lan Walker who tells me that the Commonwealth Film Unit is to be controlled by the Department of Services and Property, but no department exists as yet and now that the unit is no longer controlled by the Department of Interior there's a large floating population up Lindfield way.
RICHARD CLARK
The committee has approached the Film and TV School for a grant to conduct workshops through 1973. Last year workshops were held for junior members and proved an unqualified success. However, at that stage materials used were supplied free of charge by Roger Mirams and Eric Porter Productions. We cannot always depend on the goodwill of cooperative organisations however much they are willing to assist.
Nick Beauman is writing a personal letter to all persons eligible for membership with the guild. Membership is disappointingly small considering that in Sydney there are approximately 185 editors, assistants and neg matchers. The ABC alone employs approximately 70 in this area. It's quite frustrating the number of production houses who do not even attempt to support the guild. It is quite remarkable that these people choose to ignore the need for a strong united body which can represent them and work for them by providing a common ground for the flow of ideas, techniques and information in an area which lives on technical expertise. Consider the position where editors would rather join a foreign union to enjoy benefits of higher rates but would not work at obtaining high qualifications and respect of the industry. Editors unite for united editors!!
Tom Cowan's simple masterpiece "The Office Picnic" came in for some strange questioning when screened at the february meeting. And as in the style of the film, T. C. answered all critics with unarming simplicity. A beautifully balanced film. Excellent script, direction, photography (Mike Edols) casting and acting, but marred somewhat by bad negative handling. An overly critical audience. A thoughtful film.
Richard Hindley jetted back from London to start on APA's feature E force 1 time bomb. Shooting and cutting in progress.
Tim Reed producing at Lindfield.
Nick Beauman is alive, well and back on deck with EPs.
Tony Buckley in London finishing off Don Quixote with Nureyev.
Gregory Ropert still in Amsterdam, his film Willy willy to be finally released in Australia. David Huggett doing opticals on his marathon editing effort Once around the sun (OATS).
A closing piece from lan Walker who tells me that the Commonwealth Film Unit is to be controlled by the Department of Services and Property, but no department exists as yet and now that the unit is no longer controlled by the Department of Interior there's a large floating population up Lindfield way.
RICHARD CLARK