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  title info:
    title: Suddenly something clicked
    sub title: the languages of film editing and sound design
  name:
    name part: Murch, Walter
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Textbooks.
  genre: Motion pictures.
  genre: Films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: photoprint
    extent: ix, 358 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
  abstract: "Highly lauded film editor, director, writer and sound designer Walter Murch reflects on the six decades of cinematic history he has been a considerable contributor to--and on what makes great films great. Together with Francis Coppola and George Lucas, Murch abandoned Hollywood in 1969 and moved to San Francisco to create the Zoetrope studio. Their vision was of a new kind of cinema for a new generation of film-goers. Murch's subsequent contributions in film editing rooms and sound-mixing theatres were responsible for ground-breaking technical and creative innovations. In this book, Murch invites readers on a voyage of discovery through film, with a mixture of personal stories, meditations on his own creative tactics and strategies, and reminiscences from working on The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, Lucas' American Graffiti, and Anthony Minghella's The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Suddenly Something Clicked is a book that will change the way you watch movies."--
  table of contents: Part one: Film editing. The ghost of 47th Street : senses plus mind equals reality -- The devil's black box and the snowflake : the effect of digitisation in fiction and documentary films -- Recutting Orson Welles's Touch of evil : 'he was some kind of a man' -- Nodality : a defence of film editing as poetry -- The droid Olympics : when film editing was a competitive sport -- Saccadic cinema : the uncanny persistence of the persistence of vision -- Tetris I : timing and dosage in editing The conversation -- Tetris II : restructuring The conversation -- N-VIS-O splicing : and the breezy darkness -- Her name was Moviola : the first editing machine -- Taking note : making comments on screenplays and screenings -- Standfleisch : your chair is your enemy -- The spliceosome : our lives depend on editing -- Hana and Harvey : canine ketamine -- Elements of style : read with caution . . . -- Cook Ting : 'at first, I could see nothing that was not ox' -- Part two: Sound design. Francis Coppola's special ballpoint pen : a 3 a.m. crisis in the mixing studio -- The dancing shadow : from king to queen -- Ode to Spo : the road to Apocalypse -- Because you DON'T LISTEN! : thoughts on the sound of Barton Fink -- Dense clarity/clear density : encoded and embodied sound and the rule of two and a half -- Dense clarity : further thoughts : dramatic polyphony -- You'll never work in this town again : and other studio follies -- Duality of the soul : mysteries of narration and dialogue replacement -- The many lives of sound effect 9413 : a Hollywood sound effect goes back to Nebraska -- 'Valkyries' in crisis : Decca vs Zoetrope -- The goddess Echo : an experiment in acoustics -- 'That's my squeak!' : the first sampling lawsuit and a long-delayed apology -- Manhattan symphony : redeem us from the chaos of shapeless noise -- The slope : coming back to earth after a long project -- The shape of things to come.
  note: Walter Murch.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Murch, Walter
      name part: 1943-
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: Editing
  subject:
    topic: Sound in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Montage (Cinéma)
  subject:
    topic: Cinéma
    topic: Son
  classification: TR899 .M875 2025
  classification: 777/.55
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Suddenly something clicked
    name:
      name part: Murch, Walter, 1943-
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Faber & Faber Ltd, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1519976230
  identifier: 9780571328857
  identifier: 0571328857
  identifier: 9780571328864
  identifier: Pgw, C/O Ips Jackson 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 241101
    record change date: 20260406152719.6
    record identifier: in00005777836
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng