26 April 2003

Murch has been a film editor and sound designer since 1969, nominated eight times by the Academy of Motion Pictures. At this time in 2003, he was editing and mixing Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain. Murch will show the 1894 Dickson/Edison film that he put in synch for the Library of Congress and analyse his methods of editing picture and dialogue in feature films.

A Century of Synchrony Between Sound and Image

The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (William Dickson 1894)

References: Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella 2003) 02:12:23 – 02:13:42