My older brother Noel Chanan, a documentary film editor and photographer, who has died aged 86, trained at the BBC in his 20s and worked on the pioneering current affairs programme Tonight in the early 1960s. Then in 1966, he left to go freelance and set up his own cutting room.
Noel was in constant demand as a film editor and he also directed a number of modest but elegant films of his own, particularly on photography. These included contributions to Granada Television’s Camera: Early Photography series in 1979 and film biographies of contemporary photographers including Bert Hardy, George Rodger and David Goldblatt.
