Features
Video Spawned the Editing Star: What Hath MTV Wrought?
Has MTV reinvented or hobbled the art and craft of editing? […]
Film History
Features
Cut and Run: Where MTV Editing Got Its Chops
A zippier editing style has achieved institutional status, through MTV […]
Features
THIS MONTH IN FILM HISTORY: Are You ‘Experience’d?
The American Experience had a unique style and zeitgeist. The stories were never pat interpretations of historical figures and events, nor did they shy away from the chronicles of lost causes, defeats, rough compromises and violence. […]
Features
Rebooting ‘Roots’
The idea to reboot the legendary, award-winning miniseries Roots nearly 40 years later was executive producer Mark Wolper’s, and it did not come easily. […]
Tail Pop
The Coen Brothers’ ‘Miller’s Crossing’
I have always been envious of those who came to the business because of their love and passion for films. I was born into the film industry and didn’t appreciate my proximity. […]
Features
The CinemaScope Rebound
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. […]
Features
My Father, the Soundman: Coming Full Circle on the Fox Lot
My anticipation was always a mixture of excitement and fear — excitement that I was going to the studio where my father made movies, but fear because the actual reason for the visit was to see the dentist, which, given my age, could mean the extraction of baby teeth. The fear usually won out. […]
Features
Attuned to Images: An Appreciation of Editor Tom Rolf
Tom Rolf was a real professional, a man who knew his craft inside and out. He was all business in the cutting room. I remember that he would come in at 9:00 a.m., sit down, get right to work, and leave at 6:00 p.m. […]
Features
Otherworldly Workflow
If you think that unwrapping the mysteries of transcoding file-based camera footage provides its challenges, you will find the post-production workflow on Avatar either very scary, or a completely visionary model of things to come. […]
Features
My Morning with Marlon: ADR Editor Vs. Superman’s Father
“I had no other recourse but to go to work…or pretend to…” – Norman B. Schwartz […]
