Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor

Lanham MD/London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dj. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, No. 88) Series (B&W photographs) "Drawing from his own ascent up the MGM Studio System, [the author] gudies the reader through a history of American film editing, beginning with its earliest days when film was snapped by hand. Not a glamorous account of Hollywood, the book gives film buffs and moviegoers a nuts-and-bolts look at the mechanics of editing from inside out." Winters's career as an editor began at MGM in 1928 (where his father worked in the wardrobe department), and lasted until the 1990s; his last recorded credit was on the 1995 film CUTTHROAT ISLAND, and in between he edited such little pictures as BEN-HUR, ON THE TOWN, QUO VADIS, SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, and a dozen films for director Blake Edwards, including THE PINK PANTHER and VICTOR/VICTORIA. .