at Lumière

PostED ON 19.10.2024

Walter Murch commenting on the documentary by Howard Berry, Her Name Was Moviola:

“We've been in the digital age for 35 years now. Twelve years ago, I realised that there were no documentaries on how mechanical editing was done with film reels. At the beginning of the silent era, there were no machines for editing, because cinema was a totally new art. Then came the Moviola, in the 1920s, a machine that is 100 years old. So what you're going to see today is a movie that goes through all the stages of film editing. It's a journey into the past.”

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The Raymond Chirat Prize, which recognises a writer-historian-researcher in the history of cinema, is attributed to Laurent Mannoni, Scientific Director of Heritage at the Cinémathèque française, Director of the Conservatory of Cinematographic Techniques and an exhibition curator.

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