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An Interview with ‘Titanic’ editor Conrad Buff, ACE
Conrad Buff sits down with the Editor’s Guild Newsletter to discuss editing ‘Titanic’
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Delving Inside The Post-Production Of ‘THE INSIDER’
Picture Editors Bill Goldenberg, Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom sit down and discuss ‘The Insider’
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Thelma Schoonmaker & Martin Scorsese on ‘Gangs of New York’
Editor Thelma Schoonmaker and director Martin Scorsese discuss the opening sequence from ‘Gangs of New York.’
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Let There Be Sound: The Origins of Post-Production Audio on the West Coast
To 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 a combination of tenacity and technical developments.
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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 successful, is virtually unnoticeable,” Brownlow wrote.
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Post-Production Pioneers: The Guild’s Earliest Members – West Coast
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 some of the Guild’s retired members encompass the Guild’s entire history.
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Post-Production Pioneers: The Guild’s Earliest Members – East Coast
Television 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. Walter Thompson, Benton & Bowles and Hill & Knowlton, among others, were a major part of the “go-go” years in Manhattan.
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Disney’s Deus Ex Machine Shop
In the early days of the motion picture industry, progress often required that new technologies be innovated by a studio that was advancing the art of cinema.
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Becoming an Editor
A compilation of editors giving tips and insights on becoming an editor.
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The Busy Boom Years of Local 771
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 working in features and at the television networks.
