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Morningside Heights joins the 20th century
Walter Murch
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This was simultaneous with me seeing my first jet plane and the elevator in the apartment building, now that there was alternating current, being retrofitted with cybernetics so that you could walk into the elevator and press the number four button and it would take you automatically to four rather than having to have an elevator operator who would operate these things. So emotionally, for me, I felt like I was yanked into the middle of the 20th century from some earlier time. Again, in retrospect, I think this was a good thing that I did experience that all of that old technology and that old way of doing things. As a kid, being seven years, seven or eight years old at the time, it was very exciting because suddenly, I was joining the rest of humanity.
Born in 1943 in New York City, Murch graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. His career stretches back to 1969 and includes work on Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, II, and III, American Graffiti, The Conversation, and The English Patient. He has been referred to as 'the most respected film editor and sound designer in modern cinema.' In a career that spans over 40 years, Murch is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Francis Ford Coppola, beginning in 1969 with The Rain People. After working with George Lucas on THX 1138 (1971), which he co-wrote, and American Graffiti (1973), Murch returned to Coppola in 1974 for The Conversation, resulting in his first Academy Award nomination. Murch's pioneering achievements were acknowledged by Coppola in his follow-up film, the 1979 Palme d'Or winner Apocalypse Now, for which Murch was granted, in what is seen as a film-history first, the screen credit 'Sound Designer.' Murch has been nominated for nine Academy Awards and has won three, for best sound on Apocalypse Now (for which he and his collaborators devised the now-standard 5.1 sound format), and achieving an unprecedented double when he won both Best Film Editing and Best Sound for his work on The English Patient. Murch’s contributions to film reconstruction include 2001's Apocalypse Now: Redux and the 1998 re-edit of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil. He is also the director and co-writer of Return to Oz (1985). In 1995, Murch published a book on film editing, In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, in which he urges editors to prioritise emotion.
Title: Morningside Heights joins the 20th century
Listeners: Christopher Sykes
Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.
Tags: elevator, alternating current, cybernetics, technology
Duration: 1 minute, 4 seconds
Date story recorded: April 2016
Date story went live: 01 March 2017
