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Eric Mival (born 18 July 1939, Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, UK) is a film editor, director, and music editor. is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Mival started his career in films and television working in editing roles on several TV programmes and feature films before becoming a BBC film editor. He is now a film and television writer/director/producer, who has worked on a wide range of both drama and documentary, broadcast and non-broadcast TV programmes. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
Early Work
He was the music editor on 13 episodes of the TV series The Prisoner recorded in 1966/67. He has also been a film editor on a number of TV shows including: Strange Report, Top of the Pops, Doctor Who, Comedy Playhouse, The Wednesday Play, and the Oscar nominated short film Oisin. The Prisoner is a 1967 UK allegorical science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan. ...
Strange Report was a British television drama starring Anthony Quayle as Adam Strange. ...
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...
Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
While working on the Prisoner he was asked, along with a number of other cast and crew, to work up a storyline or script for the series. He then wrote a story synopsis entitled "Ticket to Eternity" that was never actually filmed but is included in Volume One of the two-volume collection of Prisoner scripts edited by Robert Fairclough and published by Reynolds and Hearn in 2005 and 2006.
Educational TV work Much of his recent work has been on educational televisison. He wrote, produced and directed the television series We Can Work It Out, an educational series for parents about managing child behaviour. He has also written and directed, educational, training and promotional programmes for a number of large companies (such as Sainsburys and BT) and a number of UK government departments and organisations. He was the writer and director of Jolly Phonics an eight part puppet TV series teaching children to read using the phonics approach. Jolly Phonics won the “Teachers Choice” award at the US Education Media Awards in 1997. He was also both writer and director of a number of BBC schools TV programmes including Words and Pictures, You & Me, and Watch.
He directed and produced BYO, a five part short drama series shot on film in Australia for the Queensland Film Dept, dealing with the problem of teenage drinking. The series won the ITVA and Golden Mobie Award.
Other TV Work He directed documentary TV programmes for what was then Central Television in the UK including: Directing Parents and Teenagers an eight part series dealing with teenage/parental relationships which used filmed documentary and studio drama, and directing/writing England Their England, a series of three 25 minute documentaries on film about an NSPCC nursery, a feminist poet and a Birmingham black pop/dance group, who recorded in France.
He also directed a series of dramatised community service adverts on the themes of drugs and alcohol for the UK's Anglia Television TV station.
In 1978 he directed a report for the BBC TV series Film 78 on the Australian film industry. The report featured the works of directors Bruce Beresford, Fred Schepisi and Peter Weir.
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