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EDITORS
GEORGE TOMASINI
Tomasini's editing techniques have influenced many film editors and filmmakers. Valerie Orpen noted that his use of jump cuts and overlapping dialogue for exclamation points was innovative and dynamic, an example of this being the shower scene in Psycho. Tomasini was nominated for the 1960 Academy Award for best film editing for North By Northwest, but instead the award went to the editors of Ben-Hur, John D. Dunning and Ralph E. Winters. Tomasini died in November 1964, due to a heart attack. After his death, people believed that Hitchcock's subsequent films didn't have the same level of artistic success, due to other editors not having the same innovative style and the mastery of time in editing to heighten suspense.
George Tomasini was an American film editor, born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1909. Tomasini was a decade-long collaborator with director Alfred Hitchcock and edited films such as Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds. Tomasini's editing was experimental and stylish, whilst always maintaining the focus of the characters and the story. To many, his innovative editing along with Hitchcock's skill and technique redefined cinematic language.
The thing I found interesting about George Tomasini is that his style and editing techniques used when editing North by Northwest and Psycho heighten the tension in the scenes. In the crop-duster scene in North by Northwest, he uses quick cuts to build tension. In Psycho, he uses music and quick cuts to build tension.
An example of George Tomasini's suspenseful editing is during the cropduser scene in North By Northwest, which was nominated for best editing in the 1960 Academy Awards
NORTH BY
NORTHWEST
PSYCHO
Another example of George Tomasini's editing is during the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcocks 'Psycho'. The scene is one of the most famous in cinema history
En.wikipedia.org. (2019). George Tomasini. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tomasini [Accessed 23 May 2019].
IMDb. (n.d.). George Tomasini - IMDb. [online] Available at: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866462/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1.
North By Northwest (1959) Film.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. USA, Metro-Goldwin-Mayer.
Psycho (1960) Film.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. USA, Shamley Productions.
NINO
BARAGLI
Nino Baragli was an Italian film editor, born in Rome in 1925. Baragli has over 200 film credits, with his most famous being directed by Italian director Sergio Leone. Baragli collaborated with Leone on some of his best-known films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. Sergio Leone had other editors prior to working with Baragli for the first time on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but Baragli edited all of Leone's subsequent films. Writer Robert Cumbow described Baragli as 'Leone's best editor' and says that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly had a compelling pace and the fact that it works so well is due to Baragli's talent. Cumbow also describes Baragli's work on the film 'Once Upon a Time in America' as a masterwork of editing.
Baragli was a member of the Italian Association of Film Editors. In 2012, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award from the association.
The thing I found interesting about Nino Baragli's editing on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is that the final duel scene is almost 10 minutes long, but maintains the same level of tension throughout. Nino Baragli's cuts between the close up shots of the actors faces and guns and the use of music heightens the tension in the scene.
THE GOOD,
THE BAD
AND THE UGLY
The final duel scene of Sergio Leone's 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly', edited by Nino Baragli
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) Film.
Directed by Sergio Leone. Italy, Produzioni Europee.
IMDb. (n.d.). Nino Baragli - IMDb. [online] Available at: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052849/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1.
En.wikipedia.org. (2019). Nino Baragli. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Baragli.
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