Where’s the ‘rimshot’ GIF when you need it?

Ah, found it!

He started with Gainsborough Studio as a Lift Boy when he left school, I suppose that's a good way to go up in the world

Where’s the ‘rimshot’ GIF when you need it?

Or, to put it another way, your brother’s brother-in-law.

I didn't know the best way to describe him.

He started with Gainsborough Studio as a Lift Boy when he left school, I suppose that's a good way to go up in the world, he went on to be a cutter, then moved up from there, I only talked with him on a couple of occasions

My brothers Wife's Brother

Or, to put it another way, your brother’s brother-in-law.

Ynys Môn is the Welsh name for Anglesey. Pick one!

pberk wrote:

Yipes.  I first used a Sony PortaPak in about 1967 while a grad student at UCLA.    Talk about analogue.  There was no way to edit that stuff. It was 1/2" I think but later on it was 1" .. Not sure. But it was helical scan so you couldn't physically edited the tape as it generated a horrible roll bar as the helican scan caught up.  But it did give us a "cheap" way to shoot.  It was B&W but it was sound and picture.  We learned to do "optical transfer add-on edits" in our TV studio which had a 2" broadcast standard VCR.  I shot something like 30 hours on a particular documentary, did the laborious "add-on"editing in the studio and the show aired on our local PBS station.  Nifty.

That's very interesting, thank you, my first days with film was cut and splice with film cement, the same with my early audio tape recording

My brothers Wife's Brother was a film editor, started with Gainsborough Studios, went on to edit the Hammer Horror films, his name was James Needs.

Wow! .. James Needs was born on October 17, 1919 in Holborn, London, England, UK. He was an editor, known for Horror of Dracula (1958), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). He was married to Mona Reilly and Wynifred Rose Makin. He died in 2003 in Ynys Mon, Anglesey, Wales, UK. 

Internet Movie Database (IMDB) keeps all this info -- apparently in perpetuity so a thousand years hence, Jim Needs will be still be part of the data.  Who knew back then?

Yipes.  I first used a Sony PortaPak in about 1967 while a grad student at UCLA.    Talk about analogue.  There was no way to edit that stuff. It was 1/2" I think but later on it was 1" .. Not sure. But it was helical scan so you couldn't physically edited the tape as it generated a horrible roll bar as the helican scan caught up.  But it did give us a "cheap" way to shoot.  It was B&W but it was sound and picture.  We learned to do "optical transfer add-on edits" in our TV studio which had a 2" broadcast standard VCR.  I shot something like 30 hours on a particular documentary, did the laborious "add-on"editing in the studio and the show aired on our local PBS station.  Nifty.

That's very interesting, thank you, my first days with film was cut and splice with film cement, the same with my early audio tape recording

My brothers Wife's Brother was a film editor, started with Gainsborough Studios, went on to edit the Hammer Horror films, his name was James Needs.

here is my set up in the early 80's