My friend David Naden, who has died aged 91, was a Bafta award-winning film editor who made his breakthrough by editing John Irvin’s 1963 documentary about the Durham miners, Gala Day.
It was made with a £750 grant from the British Film Institute, and David cut the film with the help of fellow graduates from the London School of Film Technique (now London Film School), Jane Wood and Dai Vaughan. After Gala Day was transmitted by the BBC in 1964, the trio of editors established David Naden Associates, and the DNA collective became the base for some of the best British documentaries.
