Category Archives: San Francisco

Interview excerpt: Walter Murch recalls Michael Sundin’s Performance as Tik-Tok

Here’s a nice mid-week treat for you all – a five minute excerpt from our interview with Walter Murch. Walter directed Return to Oz for Disney at Elstree Studios in the early 1980s.  Michael Sundin, who was the World Trampolining Champion at the time, was cast to perform as Tik-Tok – actually physically operating the robot character from inside.  In Continue Reading

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Walter Murch and our Return to London

It’s 15:30 at San Francisco airport and we are just having a last team meal before our flight. This morning, we had the honour of being guests in the home of Walter Murch – the Oscar winning editor of Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Trilogy and The English Patient. Walter spoke to us for over an hour about his time directing Continue Reading

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San Francisco

We are now towards the end of our California trip; the last part of which has been spent in San Francisco. The City is beautiful and we are in the heart of town in Union Square. It feels very Christmassy too – a giant Macy’s Christmas tree overlooks an outdoor ice skating rink and there are beautiful lights everywhere. Tomorrow, Continue Reading

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