Cotton Warburton - Фильмы

Ирвин "Cotton" Евгений Уорбертон (October 8, 1911 – 21 June, 1982) was an American college football защитник (1933) who became a film and television editor with sixty характеристика киноработ. He worked for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and for the Walt Disney Studios, and is probably best known for his editing of Mary Poppins (1964). Уорбертон attended San Diego High School, and won the California high school 440-yard dash в 1930 году. He brought his speed to the USC Trojans football team, and was chosen as an All-American защитник в 1933. Warburton was the quarterback during a winning streak that lasted for 27 games, which remained at unsurpassed until USC 1980. Cotton что elected to the College Football Hall of Fame в 1975 году. Warburton's teammate Аарон Розенберг так что elected to the Hall of Fame, and also had a successful career in the film industry as a director and producer. Following his graduation from the University of Southern California в 1934, Уорбертон declined an offer to become a professional football player with the Chicago Bears. He became an фильм assistant editor at Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, where he remained for 19 years. As was common in the era studio, his first editing кредитного came after about eight years with the studio and was for the Laurel and Hardy film Air Raid Wardens (1943). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Crazylegs (1953), a film about Elroy Hirsch's football career; Роберт Ниеми has suggested that the номинация acknowledged Warburton's success в "weaving documentary footage of олень on the playing field into the proper фильм." Shortly after this film, Уорбертон left MGM. By 1956г. Warburton was an editor for the Walt Disney Studios, where he remained for the rest of his career. His first Disney фильм credit что Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956). About 1960, he began a fruitful collaboration on feature films with директор Disney Роберт Стивенсон. Their first film was The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). Уорбертон won an Academy Award and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for the "spectacularly successful" Мэри Поппинс (1964), which also earned Стивенсон an Oscar nomination as best director. Критик Дрю Каспер particularly notes Warburton's editing of the film's "chimney pot" musical sequence (clip to see the right). In total, Stevenson and Warburton collaborated on nine films in the 1960s and 1970s; their last together фильм что Herbie Rides Again (1974). Уорбертон retired from editing after The Cat from Outer Space (1978), a Disney film directed by Norman Tokar. Warburton was a member of the American Cinema Editors.