 He also made two more short films entitled "49 Pickup" and "29 Pickup".After that, he went to work under an Oscar-award winning editor Michael Kahn on the TV pilot "Fuzz Brothers" (1973), in addition to the films "The Spook Who Sat By the Door" (1973) and "Nightmare Circus" (1974).Thomas went on to work for Paramount Pictures, where he served as an assistant editor on the Gordon Parks film "Leadbelly" (1976).