Seventy years ago, on April 11, 1947, Charles Chaplin — one of the central figures of world cinema and as influential to the art of moviemaking as to the establishment …
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by Peter Tonguette As personal projects go, Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz is hard to top. The 1979 musical drama centers on a protagonist named Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a …
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by Edward Landler Audiences first heard the nascent Rock ‘n’ Roll music in the movies in March 1955, when Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” played over …
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by Barbara Pokras, ACE I was lost. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. It was the early 1960s and I drifted in and out …
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Early on, a Woman’s Place Was in the Cutting Room
by Betsy McLaneby Betsy McLane“Great film editing begins with great pictures,” said Barbara “Bobbie” McLean in a 1977 interview in Film Comment magazine. She could make such a gracious statement with authority at that …
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by Kurt Kassulke, CAS Growing up in Minnesota, I was the son of a doctor mom and stepdad, and a Minnesota Vikings dad. Music filled the house, especially every Sunday …
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Right, how do we want to do this? I know, let’s start gently with, ‘Welcome back to the show’ before the break…then we’ll go with the classic segue, ‘Someone else …
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How does one run a proper test screening?
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Every single day in the editing room feels like I’m at Disneyland, since I had worked as an accountant.
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Textbook Examples: Two Different Views on Filmmaking and Editing
by Betsy McLaneby Betsy McLaneTwo new books offer decidedly different approaches to the art and craft of creating motion pictures.