Russell Reid

One of the founding production staff of the National Film Unit, Russell Reid was a writer, editor and sometime director of many items for the Weekly Review, as well as other films made in the NFU's first decade. He was also known for his work in theatre, a passion he shared with his wife Joan. Together they ran a theatrical supplies business for 15 years. Russell Reid died in July 1970. Image: Detail from Archives New Zealand photo [see Photos tab] 

When the heat's on around the studios and there's a rush to get away next week's Review, all of us in the National Film Unit have at some time or another said: 'There must be a better way of earning a living.' But I doubt if any of us really want to find it. Russell Reid on working on the National Film Unit's Weekly Review, in Screen Parade, April 1945, page 13