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Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 10-31-2002, 04:24 PM:
Film Editor Margaret Booth passes away at 104 years old.
She began her career cutting silent film with D.W. Griffith.
But she spent most of her 70 year career as a Film Editor
at MGM from 1930 to 1968. She got a Oscar nom for the film
"Mutiny on the Bounty" 1935. After MGM, she was Rastar's
supervising film editor till she retired in 1986.Just imagine all the film history , she got to see and work with.
During that time she saw all the great film directors work.
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 10-31-2002, 06:20 PM:
I didn't realizr that she was still around and lived to 104. Thats really amazing. I also remember her as one that liked to teach the new generation of editors as well.
Mark
Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 11-01-2002, 03:12 PM:
You are right Mark.
Margaret and Vera Fields came to class when I was in Film School.
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 11-01-2002, 06:42 PM:
Wow!What a period to be alive in and to love film! You got to see it practically from film's birth to it's demise. To go from silent to sound, from B&W to color, from mono to stereo, from small halls to movie palaces to multiplexes, from optical to mag to digital...from nitrate to bitrate from 8mm to IMAX...
I mean this is an impressive career span and a top person to boot!
WOW.
Steve
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"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 11-04-2002, 08:53 AM:
Slightly off topic but related; I wonder how long Riefenstahl's going to last. There are at least two pretty devastating biographies just waiting for her to pop off (their publishers don't want to risk lawsuits), so I guess she'll spite us all and go on for a good while yet.