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
“Compelling storytelling”
–Variety
“A riveting Frontline”
–Los Angeles Times
“Exhaustive and fascinating”
–New York Times
–Variety
“A riveting Frontline”
–Los Angeles Times
“Exhaustive and fascinating”
–New York Times
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