The 75 Best Edited Films’ years of release range from the 1920s to the 2010s — with 3 titles each in both of those decades. Most of the films cited are from the 1970s (17), followed by the ‘90s (16), the ‘60s (13), the ‘50s (8), the ‘00s (7), the ‘80s (5) and the ‘40s (3). Curiously, there were no films chosen from the 1930s. […]
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In a way, Ben Lewis, one of the three founding members of the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors (SMPFE) — now the Motion Picture Editors Guild — was the quintessential company man, working 45 of his 52 years in the cutting room at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. […]
The results of a survey of Editors Guild members to name their choices for the best edited film of all time, taking into consideration picture, sound and music editing, as well as re-recording mixing […]
Representing one of the most exciting new sound post-production facilities to be built in Tinsel Town in several decades, the Technicolor at Paramount complex on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood comprises eight re-recording theatres, three ADR stages, a large Foley stage, eight sound design suites, 16 editorial suites, six DVD/ Digital New Media editing/encoding rooms and a pair of 7.1-channel HD video layback/ Transfer/QC rooms. […]
Because the shortsighted Hollywood film industry did not want anything to do with the new invention called television in the mid-1940s, the radio industry took over the burgeoning medium. New York became the dominant center for the first decade of TV, as the radio studios were located in Manhattan. […]
Editor Eric Zumbrunnen, A.C.E., first became known for cutting music videos, like Spike Jonze’s award-winning clip for Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” and Björk’s “It’s Oh So Quiet.” […]
Mitch Jacobson helps readers learn the same methods, and perhaps achieve the same results, as the masters of multi-cam. […]
Marvin Davis should have become a union organizer. Davis, a Field Representative in the Hollywood office of the Editors Guild, retired in February after a long and rewarding career in the film industry. […]
With the inauguration of television after World War II, motion picture attendance suffered a precipitous decline. From 1946 to 1952, attendance at movie theatres had dropped by almost half, from 83 million to 46 million per week. […]
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