RonSkelley
- Sound
Ron Skelley spent 36 years with the National Film Unit’s sound department, contributing to the soundtracks of Weekly Review, Pictorial Parade, and many other NFU and independent films. Skelley started at the NFU in 1949, and was in charge of the sound department from 1977 until his retirement in 1985. He died on 29 March 1992. Image Credit: Photo from The Evening Post, courtesy of Fairfax Media
Screenography
1970 Associate Sound Mixer Short film
1968 Sound Mix Short film
Pictorial Parade No. 201 - The Young Protectors
1968 Sound Short film
New Zealand - South East Asia
1967 Sound Television
Birth of a Rainbow
1967 Sound Short film
Biography
Ronald Albert Skelley was born on 5 March 1925. He was an accomplished musician, playing the mandolin in a band on an early release from record label TANZA. It did not bring him fame; but in this, as with his general career, he was quite happy to work quietly and diligently in the background.
“'Background - Ron Skelley.'”
— Ron Skelley staying out of the limelight, in a typical National Film Unit photo caption
Related images
John O'Shea directs a scene from his 1964 feature Runaway on the Franz Josef Glacier. At left are Deirdre McCarron and O'Shea, while Tony Williams lies holding the camera on the right. In the background (left to right) are sound recordist Ron Skelley, camera assistant Michael Seresin, and actor Barry Crump.
Pacific Films Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
A crew photo for NFU film This is New Zealand. From front, starting on the left: Geoffrey Scott (executive producer), Hugh Macdonald (glasses & beard - writer/director), David Fowler (producer), Rob Ritchie (associate director), Martin Townsend (title designer), Sam Grau (camera), Mac Ashley (technical manager), Kit Rollings (sound) Brian Shennan (sound) Cecil Forsberg (title designer), Kerry Coe (technician) Ron Skelley (associate sound mixer) and technicians Bruce McKenzie, Jim Chandler & Henry van Tulder.
Kindly supplied by The Dominon Post.