POST-PRODUCTION PIONEERS

September 23, 2012, 03:57 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

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 and Bowles and Hill and Knowlton, among others, were a major part of the "go-go" years in Manhattan. Editors in the East Coast Motion Picture Film Editors Guild, Local 771, which was founded in 1943, were the backbone of the advertising and television industry, working under heavy...