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Helen Wiggins | |
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| Born | Ellen Matilda Wiggins |
| Occupation | Film editor |
| Spouse | Chris Millett |
| Parent | Jack Wiggins |
Helen Wiggins (born Ellen Matilda Wiggins) was a British film editor active from the 1920s through to the 1970s.
Helen was the daughter of Jack Wiggins, a pioneering British cameraman. [1] She entered the film industry as a film processor in 1920, learning her trade at Film Laboratories Ltd before joining her father at the Topical Film Company, producers of the Topical Budget newsreel in 1921. [2] She continued in newsreels, joining the film laboratories of Empire News Bulletin in 1926 and becoming chief film editor of its sound successor, Universal Talking News in 1930. [3] She was negative cutter, working for her father, on short-lived colour newsreel The National News and film editor on political series Point of View (1939). [4]
She became chief film editor for Pathé News in 1940, leaving in 1948 to form her own company, Helen Wiggins Films Ltd. [5] As a freelancer, she worked on many features, shorts, documentaries, and commercials during the 1940s through the 1970s. [6] In 1962 she married Chris Millett, scriptwriter for National Interest Picture Productions. Wiggins took over the company's production of training films and other government commissions, many of them using animation. Helen Wiggins Films Ltd. went into voluntary liquidation in 1974. [7]
Fiction films (as editor)
Film series (as lab worker, negative cutter or film editor)
Helen Wiggins Films Ltd. (mostly as editor)
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