How did he get started with Star Trek/Desilu?
JS: How he landed Star Trek I don’t know, but I was able to visit the set a few times, and remember meeting Uhura, got one of Spock’s ears (I threw it away, yuk), played on the bridge, and helped start an avalanche! Dad was a film editor, so I got to “work” a moveiola and cutting machine and make my own film strips. I even got to sit through the dailies once. DT: What education/experience did your Dad have to train him for film editing? JS: Dad, from what I remember, Dad fell into the movie industry. He came west during the depression (around 1933), having lost his mom and brother to some epidemic. He came with my granddad and a sister (who was raising him). I know that his two brothers were also in the industry one was a camera man before the talking movies, and the other I am not sure what his role was. Dad was in the army in the WWII and ended up making newsreels in New York, never got overseas. I don’t know if he had the experience before, or learned it in the military. DT: I assum
