Apprentice Editors

For as long as he has been a director, Gus Van Sant has also been an editor. While most of his subsequent efforts have been cut by such distinguished editors …

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 …

Midway through George Cukor’s Rich and Famous (1981), there is a scene that, all by itself, encapsulates the witty banter that was the director’s signature. The heroine of the film, …

Let’s hear it for the longtime assistant for enabling the editor to keep story as the primary focus. Assistant editors are the foundation of the editing room — organizing, interfacing …

The re-publication of this invaluable tome by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar is a cause for celebration among editors and filmmakers.

Legendary movie producer Sam Goldwyn wrote the quote, opposite, in an article for The New York Times Magazine in 1949, just as television was emerging as a major mass medium.

Forty years ago, Steven Spielberg transformed television narrative with his made-for-TV movie Duel, which aired on ABC in November 1971.

I started editing quarter-inch reels of recorded audio sessions, then got bumped up to an assistant working with film on a Moviola.  I was surprised by how much I liked …

During a busy and productive career that spans 60 years in film and television, sound editor Don Hall––the 2011 recipient of the Editors Guild’s prestigious Fellowship and Service Award, to …