Frontline: Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
An investigative biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man at the center
of the political crime of the 20th century, the assassination of JFK.
I cut the first hour of this 2 hour show. Unlike so much TV in those days, it was both shot and edited on film. You have to be very organized to be an old-school film editor or you’ll lose important shots at the bottom of the trim bin or in a misfiled film can. It can sometimes take several minutes to retrieve a shot - which is scary on a Frontline schedule. And if you cut a scene for one purpose and later realize you need it for something else, you have to physcially undo all the edits and reconstitute the shots - painstaking and time-consuming. This was my last film before starting to use Non-Linear Editing with Avid.
Produced by Bill Cran and Ben Loeterman
1993
I cut the first hour of this 2 hour show. Unlike so much TV in those days, it was both shot and edited on film. You have to be very organized to be an old-school film editor or you’ll lose important shots at the bottom of the trim bin or in a misfiled film can. It can sometimes take several minutes to retrieve a shot - which is scary on a Frontline schedule. And if you cut a scene for one purpose and later realize you need it for something else, you have to physcially undo all the edits and reconstitute the shots - painstaking and time-consuming. This was my last film before starting to use Non-Linear Editing with Avid.
Produced by Bill Cran and Ben Loeterman
1993
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