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Brando Talks! and Superman Listens
“Brando’s voice and presence serve as a memory bridge back to that time.” – Craig Berkey supervising sound editor/sound designer […]
Articles by Michael Kunkes
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Superman’s Pals: Even Action Heroes Need Assistants
‘Superman Returns’s team of assistant editors, led by Liza Espinas-Regnier, had their hands full, getting this show onto the screen.
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Blue, Gray and Read All Over: Jay Wertz and ‘The Civil War Experience’
Jay Wertz has created a lavish and richly detailed combination of words and pictures exploring every major event of what has often been called the first modern war. […]
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‘Munich’, Mentoring & Moviolas The Michael Kahn Interview
CineMontage spoke with Michael Kahn, in his editing bay in the Howard Hawks building at 20th Century Fox, about ‘Munich’, and his 30-year working relationship with Spielberg. […]
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Digital Dreamcatcher: ‘Droidmaker’ Chronicles the Early Years of Lucasfilm
Droidmaker takes the reader inside the early years of Lucasfilm’s computer division. George Lucas foresaw a time when film would be replaced by a digital, high-resolution alternative that was neither film nor video. […]
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Canned Music Production Libraries for TV Are Now Calling the Tune
The public’s demand for feature-quality music in everything from reality shows to full-hour TV dramas–has turned the production music market into a half-billion-dollar-a-year intellectual property based business. […]
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When Movies Learned to Talk: A Brief History of Sound in Early Motion Pictures
The Kinetophone was the ancestor of a steady line of emerging technologies-film, recording, reproduction and amplification-that through trial and error would converge to create the technology of optical, monaural sound. […]
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The Power & the Story: The Screenplay’s the Thing for Story Analysts
There is a measure of power to the job of story analyst. […]
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Sounds Independent: New York Mixers and Editors Work with New Filmmakers
For post sound professionals an independent film is defined largely by little more than faith in their own creative abilities and a desire to help clients. […]
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Driving that Train: Editorial Engineers Power ‘Polar Express’
During production for ‘The Polar Express’ Multiple creative processes, including editing, storyboarding, writing and designing, were occurring simultaneously. […]
