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'''Chaiken:''' Was Maidstone edited at Leacock-Pennebaker? | '''Chaiken:''' Was ''Maidstone'' edited at Leacock-Pennebaker? | ||
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'''Welt:''' By the time we got to edit Maidstone we had moved out of LeacockPennebaker to an upstairs office in the same building. Maidstone cinematographers Nick Proferes and Jim Desmond had started their own company,Proferes-Desmond Films, and that’s where we worked. It was around this time that I was doing interim work as an editor on Michael Wadleigh’s | '''Welt:''' By the time we got to edit ''Maidstone'' we had moved out of LeacockPennebaker to an upstairs office in the same building. ''Maidstone'' cinematographers Nick Proferes and Jim Desmond had started their own company,Proferes-Desmond Films, and that’s where we worked. It was around this time that I was doing interim work as an editor on Michael Wadleigh’s | ||
''Woodstock'' (1970). Working on that film, I had come up against the KEM editing table, which gave you the ability to have three screens going simultaneously. Pretty sophisticated stuff for 1969 ... the KEM dictated the tripanel look of Woodstock. I was pretty astonished by them as an editing system and suggested to Norman that we buy a couple and make some extra | ''Woodstock'' (1970). Working on that film, I had come up against the KEM editing table, which gave you the ability to have three screens going simultaneously. Pretty sophisticated stuff for 1969 ... the KEM dictated the tripanel look of Woodstock. I was pretty astonished by them as an editing system and suggested to Norman that we buy a couple and make some extra | ||
money by renting them out. So we did and that’s how Maidstone was edited, | money by renting them out. So we did and that’s how ''Maidstone'' was edited, | ||
on a KEM with three screens going simultaneously. It was a very convenient | on a KEM with three screens going simultaneously. It was a very convenient | ||
way for us to handle that much material. | way for us to handle that much material. | ||