Portrait of an Invisible Man: The Working Life of Stewart McAllister, Film Editor

by Dai Vaughan

Genres: Film

176 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1983

About the author

Dai Vaughan was known as an innovative documentary filmmaker and latterly as a novelist and poet.

Reviews

[John Burgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Without exception, one of my all time favourite books on film and also a superb biography: a film editor writing about a film editor. By turns poetic, humorous, quirky, political, a work of imagination underpinned by detailed research. I recommend it to anyone with the faintest interest in documentary, the British documentary movement, Humphrey Jennings and wartime Britain. Passionate and, in the best sense, truly inspirational; the preface bears the words of playwright Ernst Toller: "What we call form is love".