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David Fisher
Compiler and Chronomediator
I have been editor of the international media journal Screen Digest since 1974,
having been news editor since 1972.
I was educated at Bolton School and
am a graduate
of the London School of Film Technique, where I was responsible for editing the final
version of an international award-winning short film, Breakfast.
Prior to joining Screen Digest,
I
published a pioneering book on film production techniques, The Craft of Film (Attic
Publishing, 1970). Between 1978 and 1982 I was executive editor of Television: The
Journal of the Royal Television Society. I have contributed to numerous newspapers and
journals and represent Screen Digest's membership of the Strasbourg-based European
Audiovisual Observatory.
I was a co-opted member of the Interim Action
Committee on the Future of the British Film Industry, chaired by Lord Wilson, and its
successor, the British Screen Advisory Council, chairing the statistics
committee. I was a recipient of the Roland Chase
Award and the inaugural President's Award of the British Kinematograph Sound and Television
Society.
Perhaps my most influential moment
(so far) arose in 1982 when a letter to the editor of
The Times resulted in the redrafting of the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill.
This contribution was mentioned in both houses of parliament.
Each autumn for several years I conducted a series
of postgraduate seminars at the University of Warwick, where I was an associate fellow.
In 1998 I was awarded a grant by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
to continue the compilation of a chronology of the media and arrange publication. This website is the
outcome. I am most grateful to the KK Foundation. And, because you
can consult it free of charge rather than shelling out for an expensive book, means that you
should be grateful to the KK Foundation, too!
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