What if a gun had a soul? That was the question that was pinned to walls, doors and bulletin boards on the production of The Iron Giant.
Film History
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Give Them Some Credit!: How Post-Production Practitioners Received On-Screen Acknowledgment
In his study of silent films, The Parade’s Gone By…, author Kevin Brownlow described editing as “the hidden power.” “Editors are passed over by film historians because their work, when …
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Let There Be Sound: The Origins of Post-Production Audio on the West Coast
by Mel Lambertby Mel LambertTo relate the history of film post- production sound during the past 75 years is to tell the story of the creative post facilities that made such developments possible through …
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Raising ‘Kane’: An Overview of Hollywood Film Editing in the 1930s
by Betsy McLaneby Betsy McLaneAs soon as the MAY-JUN 12 issue of CineMontage — featuring “The 75 Best Edited Films” as selected by Editors Guild members — arrived in mailboxes, readers’ comments immediately ensued: …
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Perhaps because I work in this business, or just because I love movies so much, I’m always asked to define which ones I think are the classics. To me, that’s …
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My anticipation was always a mixture of excitement and fear — excitement that I was going to the studio where my father made movies, but fear because the actual reason …
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The 1980s were very busy years for the East Coast Editors Guild, Local 771, and the period of its highest level of membership. By 1987, more than 1,200 people were …
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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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Post-Production Pioneers: The Guild’s Earliest Members – East Coast
by uncreditedby uncreditedTelevision kept post-production people employed during the post-World War II years in New York. Feature film was a West Coast commodity, but the Madison Avenue advertising firms, such as J. …
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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.