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Mar 9, 2024 · One of the famed editors of Old Hollywood was Margaret Booth, who began her career with D.W. Griffith pioneering revolutionary film editing techniques.
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Margaret Booth (January 16, 1898 – October 28, 2002) was an American film editor. In a career lasting seven decades, Booth was most associated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Born in Los Angeles, Margaret was the younger sister of actor Elmer Booth, who starred in several films for D. W. Griffith.
YearTitleDirectorNotes1921Cutter Uncredited1924Co-editor Collaborated with Stahl1924Co-editor Collaborated with Stahl1925Co-editor Collaborated with Stahl- When An Editor Was A Cutter
- Margaret Booth: from D.W. Griffith to Irving Thalberg
- Women Editors Make The Transition to Sound
To further complicate matters, the term “editor” was used inconsistently during the silent era. The word “editor” might be used to describe the person who cut a film, or the one whose role it was to shape written stories into coherent, dramatic films. For instance, twenty-four-year-old Winifred Dunn became an editor for Metro in 1923, but she was o...
Margaret Booth began work at D. W. Griffith’s Los Angeles studio shortly after graduating from Los Angeles High School in 1915. Her brother, Elmer Booth, had been a Broadway performer who acted in a number of Griffith’s films for the Reliance Company. When Elmer died in a car crash in 1915, Griffith gave a moving eulogy at the funeral, as Moving Pi...
The transition to sound presented a particular challenge to Booth and other cutters accustomed to working with silent film. Silent film gave cutters a fair amount of flexibility in selecting and juxtaposing footage. With the addition of a soundtrack, they lost that flexibility. As Booth explains the difference, with silent film “you could throw the...
Apr 19, 2024 · Margaret Booth, one of Hollywood’s great film editors, unexpectedly guided me towards a future that I hadn't suspected or even had a motivation to pursue.
Film editor Margaret Booth, who began her career in silent films with D.W. Griffith and ended it seven decades later editing “The Way We Were” and other films for producer Ray Stark, has died.
Mar 8, 2022 · Margaret Booth, a towering and powerful figure in the editing field, was hired by D.W. Griffith in 1915 as a “patcher” and “joiner” for $10 a week, and eventually moved up to negative cutter. Friedrich noted that Booth worked for Griffith till 1936 and then became supervising editor at MGM until 1969.
Feb 4, 2016 · Olivia De Havilland presents an Honorary Award to Margaret Booth for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry, at the 50th Academy Awards. Hosted...
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