Photo by Peter Poole, no reproduction without permission.
This photo is of film editor, Ian Bellion, Judy Hooker and Merrick Simmonds (foreground). In the background you can see film cans on the shelf, and edit trims on hooks.
It probably dates from the late 1970s.
What other strange and wonderful things are hidden in the Peter Poole archive?! It’s certainly late 1970s. It looks as if we’re in one of the smaller and more subterranean cutting rooms. I haven’t been that shape or had that much hair for a very long time. We reckon that it must have been just before the management discovered that Judy and I were living together…and promptly terminated her freelance employment. She went off to Central and I stayed put – but we carried on living together and still do… Shame we can only see part of Merrick’s face – he’s probably telling us all to go away so that he can get on with his work.