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Beginnings and Endings
It’s well known, and often cited, that of all the filmmaking crafts, editing is the only one that did not exist before the advent of moving pictures. In fact, editing was actually created in the process of making those early films — first within the movie camera (or kinetograph or cinématographe) and then after the film was developed and printed, in the phase that became known as post-production. […]
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‘Tis the Season
Greetings from the middle of Awards Season 2018-2019. […]
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Living Legacies
Here we are again at the height of Awards Season, which culminates Sunday, February 24 with the 91st Academy Awards, the legacy awards show. Most Guild members will be watching the telecast at home or at Oscar parties, aside from those lucky few who received nominations in the Achievement in Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories and will be watching the proceedings nervously from their seats at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. […]
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Last Fair Deal Gone Down?
Our nation and our union are currently roiling in the pro-or-con debate of upcoming elections. For the country, it’s the biennial mid-term elections of our congressional representatives and senators as well as state officials in early November, which looks to be more divisive than ever. […]
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Totally Involved in the Cutting Room
“Editing a film is making the film as much as shooting it or writing it is.” Woody Allen told me that when I interviewed him in 1996 for “DGA Magazine,” for which I served as editor. […]
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The Cutting Room Challenge
Given the veritable obstacle course of a workflow that the 22-strong picture editorial crew on American Ninja Warrior endures to get the hit sports/reality show to air each week, perhaps the next concept in competition-oriented reality TV programming should be about just that. […]
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Post-Production Trumps Politics
If you can get past the non-stop distraction of the build-up to our nation’s bitterly contested presidential election, which has been playing across media outlets like a real-time reality show […]
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Out of Boundaries
Amazon Studios’ “Transparent” is arguably much more than just a hit web series. It’s a phenomenon that pushes the envelope in terms of social, political and gender-role mores. […]
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Sound Judgment
As the Motion Picture Editors Guild enters its 80th anniversary year, it’s important to recognize that 2017 also marks the 90th anniversary of the commercial ascendance of motion pictures with synchronized sound, which were called “talkies.” […]
