Features
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. […]
Film History
Columns
Robert “Bubba” Nichols on ‘Top Gun’
To hear Robert “Bubba” Nichols describe it, working as a recordist sounds a little like serving as a fighter pilot. Okay, okay — pilots operate under life-and-death pressures in the air, while recordists toil under far less challenging conditions on a re-recording stage. […]
Features
The Great Society: The Beginnings of the Editors Guild
In celebration of the Editors Guild’s 80th anniversary on May 20, 2017, we reprint this story on the founding of the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors, the forerunner of today’s Guild, which originally appeared in CineMontage JAN-FEB 2012 […]
Features
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. […]
Features
The Splice of Life
Editors Guild Launches Archive of Post-Production History
Moviolas and splicers, rewinders and synchronizers, photographs and books, the memories of post-production personnel… The history of the craft of editing is in the Guild Archive. […]
Features
The Evolution of the Film Mixing Console
Consoles have evolved dramatically over the last two and a half decades. […]
Columns
Dede Allen
Her emotional and gutsy style on films established her reputation as a premier actor’s editor. […]
Columns
Steve Maslow on ‘The Last Waltz’
In ‘The Last Waltz,’ released by United Artists 40 years ago in April 1978, director Martin Scorsese trained his cameras on what was intended to be the last concert of the Band at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. […]
Book Reviews
Man with a Shorinofon:
When Russia Embraced the Talkies
Few Americans, even those who work with motion picture sound, have heard of the Tagefon and Shorinofon systems, but readers interested in the intricacies of how sound first meshed with cinema can learn about these machines and the artists who used them. […]
Columns
‘The Piano’ Ain’t Got No Wrong Notes
From the age of six, Ada McGrath refuses to speak, yet film audiences first saw and heard how clearly she communicates on May 15, 1993, when Jane Campion’s ‘The Piano’ premiered at the 45th Cannes International Film Festival. […]
