He was a master of the moviola, precise with his splice, but by the early 1990s those skills became, suddenly, useless as film went digital and he was suddenly having to learn anew how to do his job from people half his age.
There is a lot to be said for the seasoned troupe going round the town halls, schools and local theatres, as the great Anew McMaster used to do in Ireland, delighting the populace with their vigorous accounts of the classics.
But the questions do demand that we think anew about what to do, both about the explosion of terrorism and the explosion of neo-fascism.
From the very beginning, the Iraq conflict tapped a deep vein of domestic politics, and, with elections approaching anew this year, it is likely to do so again.
For an inward-looking perspective to describe what IT practitioners and researchers need to do differently or anew, Tomlinson introduces the theme of extended human-centered approach (EHCA) and extended human-centered computing (EHCC).
I even considered writing a column about how sometimes the best thing to do is give up, start anew.
IMshopping doesn't send you a new tweet every time there is anew answer, which is a far less spammy way to do it.
It's hard to do much thinking there at all, let alone thinking anew.
After making sure you want to do this, hence the last step, you come to start anew.
He promised anew to repeal DOMA and "don't ask, don't tell".
The dawning era, they believed, summoned Americans not to think anew, but to keep doing precisely what they were accustomed to doing, albeit without fretting further about Communist takeovers or the risks of nuclear Armageddon.
