As the motion picture industry grew during the silent era, Hollywood borrowed the serialization of stories from magazines and the cliffhanger from popular drama to create the movie serial.
Edward Landler
Edward Landler
Edward Landler is a filmmaker, media educator and film historian. He made I Build the Tower, the definitive feature documentary on the Watts Towers, and is currently completing a cultural history of film. He can be reached at [email protected].
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CineMontage explores two contrasting teams of music editors and the differing ways they worked together with their composers and music supervisors.
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Of the many crafts essential to making movies, only editing came into existence because of the medium itself.
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LA Film Critics Bestow First Editing Award: Tichenor, Goldenberg Honored for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
On Saturday evening, January 12, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) presented its 38th Annual Awards at a gala dinner at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City. Post-production personnel …
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Ray Zone has left for us the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of how stereoscopic film attracts us.
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The Motion Picture Editors Guild has existed 75 years, a time period often associated with the span of a human life. It is no surprise then that the lives of …
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‘A New History of Documentary Film’ firmly establishes itself as the most thorough overview of the evolution, achievement and future of the documentary film to date.
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As part of their ongoing effort to gain recognition and acknowledgement for picture editors, the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the American Cinema Editors (ACE) launched a Petition for the …
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Writing with the Camera, Directing with the Moviola: The American Film Editing Revolution of the Late ’60s & ’70s
A change in movie storytelling and editing was already under way when French film critic and soon-to-be film director Alexandre Astruc wrote these words in an article in the magazine …
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Picture editor Irving James Wilkinson has unfortunately become the most obscure of the three original founders of the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors (SMPFE). Many sources, including the Guild’s …