Editing Gilbert Taylor (section)

===Later work in colour===
Hitchcock requested Taylor work on his penultimate film ''[[Frenzy]]'' (1972). Despite a claim in Bergan's obituary of the cinematographer that Hitchcock was unaware the two men had worked together forty years earlier, according to Taylor they had stayed in touch.<ref name="Hilton"/><ref name="Bergan"/> Hitchcock never looked through the camera, because of his use of storyboards, leaving decisions to Taylor.<ref name="Hilton"/> The tracking shot, up and down a flight of stairs and then into the street, which invisibly merged shots from a studio set and street location took a day to achieve with the switch disguised by the movement of an extra in front of the camera.<ref name="Farquhar"/>

Taylor's later films include ''[[The Omen]]'' (1976), and ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'' (1977). On ''Star Wars'', he established principles about visual aesthetics which have been maintained in the later films in the series.<ref name="Timesobit"/> He told Mark Newbold in 2005:<blockquote> "I wanted to give ''Star Wars'' a unique visual style that would distinguish it from other films in the science fiction genre. I wanted ''Star Wars'' to have clarity because I think space isn’t out of focus, also I was mindful that there was an enormous amount of process work to be done in America with [[John Dykstra#Star Wars|Dykstra]] after we had finished shooting in England, and a crisp result would help this process".<ref name="Newbold"/></blockquote>
Taylor found [[George Lucas]] an elusive person to consult, leading Taylor to make his own decisions as how to shoot the picture after multiple readings of the script.<ref name="Williams"/><ref>Ellis, p. 77–8</ref> Differences of opinion between the director and cinematographer led to [[20th Century Fox]], for whom Taylor had shot ''The Omen'', intervening to retain him on the picture.<ref name="Hughes"/> After the experience of working on ''Star Wars'', Taylor decided he would never work again with Lucas.<ref name="Hilton"/>

His last film credit was ''[[Don't Get Me Started (1994 film)|Don't Get Me Started]]'' released in 1994, but he continued to work on commercials for some time afterwards.<ref name="Chagollan">{{cite news|last=Chagollan|first=Steve|url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/star-wars-cinematographer-gilbert-taylor-dies-at-99-1200587532/|title=''Star Wars'' Cinematographer Gilbert Taylor Dies at 99|work=Variety|date=27 August 2013|access-date=10 April 2017}}</ref>

Taylor was a founder member of the [[British Society of Cinematographers]], receiving their lifetime achievement award in 2001.<ref name="BBC230813"/> He received an international award from the [[American Society of Cinematographers]] (ASC) in 2006.<ref name="Chagollan"/>