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Jack Ellitt(1902-2001)

  • Editor
  • Director
  • Sound Department
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The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953)
Jack Ellitt was born in 1902 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an editor and director, known for Methods of Steering the Anderton Shearer Loader (1971), Training for Safety (1972) and Our Country (1944). He was married to Doris Harrison. He died in 2001.
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Known for

Methods of Steering the Anderton Shearer Loader
Short
  • Editor
  • 1971
Training for Safety
Short
  • Director
  • 1972
Our Country
  • Editor
  • 1944
This Is Colour (1942)
This Is Colour
7.1
Short
  • Director
  • 1942

Credits

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Editor

  • Methods of Steering the Anderton Shearer Loader
    Short
    • Editor
    • 1971
  • BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950)
    BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
    7.0
    TV Series
    • Editor
    • 1959
  • Oxford
    Short
    • Editor
    • 1958
  • There Was a Door (1957)
    There Was a Door
    5.8
    Short
    • Editor
    • 1957
  • Rail Report 13: On Track for the Eighties (1980)
    A Place in the Team
    6.3
    Short
    • Editor
    • 1953
  • The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953)
    The Elephant Will Never Forget
    7.6
    Short
    • Editor
    • 1953
  • Our Country
    • Editor
    • 1944
  • Soldier, Sailor (1944)
    Soldier, Sailor
    6.8
    • Editor
    • 1944
  • African Skyway
    Short
    • Editor
    • 1940
  • Wings Over Empire
    Short
    • Editor
    • 1939

Director

  • Training for Safety
    Short
    • Director
    • 1972
  • Methods of Steering the Anderton Shearer Loader
    Short
    • Director
    • 1971
  • Chasing the Blues
    6.1
    Short
    • Director
    • 1946
  • Triumph Over Deafness
    Short
    • Director
    • 1946
  • ABCD of Health (1942)
    ABCD of Health
    Short
    • Director
    • 1942
  • This Is Colour (1942)
    This Is Colour
    7.1
    Short
    • Director
    • 1942
  • How to Dig
    Short
    • Director
    • 1941
  • Scotland Speaks
    Short
    • Director
    • 1941

Sound Department

  • Behind the Scenes (1938)
    Behind the Scenes
    Short
    • sound editor
    • 1938
  • Free to Roam
    Short
    • sound editor
    • 1938
  • N or NW (1938)
    N or NW
    6.9
    Short
    • sound editor
    • 1938
  • The Birth of the Robot (1936)
    The Birth of the Robot
    6.6
    Short
    • sound recordist (uncredited)
    • 1936
  • Kaleidoscope (1935)
    Kaleidoscope
    6.9
    Short
    • sound
    • 1935
  • A Colour Box (1935)
    A Colour Box
    6.2
    Short
    • synchronization (uncredited)
    • 1935

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A Day In The Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain
Trailer 1:26
A Day In The Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain

Personal details

  • Born
    • 1902
    • Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
  • Died
    • 2001
  • Spouse
    • Doris Harrison

Did you know

  • Trivia
    A close collaborator of Len Lye, he was born on 29th May, 1902 in Manchester but grew up in Sydney, Australia. He joined Lye in England in 1927 but returned towards the end of his life with his wife Doris to Australia where he died, at the age of 99, in a nursing home in Wyong, New South Wales in April or early May 1901.

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