FROST, Robert ("Bob")

Bob Frost joined Movietone during the Second World War, and worked as assistant to the music librarian and sound editor Stan Wicken [qv]. Frost was eventually called up into the army, but after demobilisation in 1949 he rejoined Movietone in his old position, displacing Geoff Crawford [qv] who had been given his job. Frost then became a film editor, and appears in the staff list for October 1951. He assisted Ray Perrin [qv] in editing ‘The Flight of the White Heron’ (1954), the company’s film of the Royal Tour of the Commonwealth. According to Terry Gallacher [qv], Frost took over as chief cutter on the promotion of Sid Wiggins [qv], in 1955. He appears in the Movietone staff list for January 1964, but according to Peter Hampton [qv] Frost left Movietone in 1968 to set up his own editing company in Wardour Street. Frost retired in about 1989.

A Bob Frost was credited as editor for three issues of the colour cinemagazine series Look At Life, including ‘UNDERWATER MENACE’, released 1968. It is likely that this is the same man.

Sources

Reg Sutton’s typescript autobiography, copy in BUFVC: BUFVC, T. M. Gallacher, ‘Additional Notes,' October 1998: Information from Peter Hampton, March 1999: NoS Number 350696; Look At Life Number 494; Year released 1968.