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Author Topic: Film Editor Margaret Booth passes away Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-31-2002 04:24 PM                     Film Editor Margaret Booth passes away at 104 years old. She began her career cutting silent film with D.W. Griffith. But she spent most of her 70 year career as a Film Editor at MGM from 1930 to 1968. She got a Oscar nom for the film "Mutiny on the Bounty" 1935. After MGM, she was Rastar's supervising film editor till she retired in 1986. Just imagine all the film history , she got to see and work with. During that time she saw all the great film directors work.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-31-2002 06:20 PM                     I didn't realizr that she was still around and lived to 104. Thats really amazing. I also remember her as one that liked to teach the new generation of editors as well. Mark  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 11-01-2002 03:12 PM                     You are right Mark. Margaret and Vera Fields came to class when I was in Film School.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-01-2002 06:42 PM                     Wow! What a period to be alive in and to love film! You got to see it practically from film's birth to it's demise. To go from silent to sound, from B&W to color, from mono to stereo, from small halls to movie palaces to multiplexes, from optical to mag to digital...from nitrate to bitrate from 8mm to IMAX... I mean this is an impressive career span and a top person to boot! WOW. Steve ------------------ "Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-04-2002 08:53 AM                        Slightly off topic but related; I wonder how long Riefenstahl's going to last. There are at least two pretty devastating biographies just waiting for her to pop off (their publishers don't want to risk lawsuits), so I guess she'll spite us all and go on for a good while yet.  |  IP: Logged

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