Rosemarie Hickson
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Rosemarie Hickson was one of the first American women film editors and directors of documentary, educational, and industrial films.
Biography[edit]
In 1952, Hickson was named head of the TV Film Production Department of Sterling Television Co. Her former affiliations were 20th Century-Fox, Caravel Productions (as supervisor of TV film production department),[1] and the US State Department.[2] Hickson became a film editor at Robert Lawrence Productions after serving in a variety of production jobs in the motion picture industry. In 1957, she noted that "Out of some 650 film editors n New York. close to one-third are women."[3] Despite the relative obscurity nowadays of women editors during the 1930s and 1940s including Hickson, they played an important role in American filmmaking.[4]
Hickson served as Secretary and on the Executive Board of the Motion Pictures Film Editors IATSE NY local in the 1940s.[5]
Filmography[edit]
- Caravans of Trade (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production as part of the Our Land and People series, narrated by Nelson Case[6]
- City Week End (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production, narrated by Nelson Case[7]
- Conservation Road (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production, narrated by Nelson Case[8]
- Land of Enchantment: Southwest USA (1948), as editor, an Affiliated Film production part of the The American Scene series and was distributed by the Office of War Information (State Department)[9]
- The Walking Machine (1949), as editor, for the American Foot Care Inc, narrated by Albert Grobe[10]
- The Life of Christ (1950?), as photographer, produced by Alantic Productions[11]
- Union at work: this is TWUA (1950), as co-director with Lawrence Rogin, about the Textile Workers Union of America and narrated by Joseph Julian[12]
- Mooney vs. Fowle (1961), as editor (under name Rosemary Hickson?), produced by Robert Drew, about the state high school football championship held at the Orange Bowl in Miami
References[edit]
- ^ Broadcasting Telecasting, November 3, 1952, p.105.
- ^ "News Digest," Ross Reports on Television, 4 (5), Supplement E, Oct 26-1 Nov 1952, p.5.
- ^ "Women's Week," Sponsor, 7 December 1957, p.22.
- ^ Smyth, J. E., 'Controlling the Cut', Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood (New York, 2018; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Mar. 2018),
- ^ Film daily year book of motion pictures for 1942, p. 867.
- ^ CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.58.
- ^ CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.67.
- ^ CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.73.
- ^ "Land of Enchantment: Southwest U.S.A., circa 1948". Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Archives.
- ^ CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.472.
- ^ "The Film Forum," Cecile Starr, The Saturday Review, September 23, 1950, p.28.
- ^ "Union at work: this is TWUA | Rosemarie Hickson | 1950 | ACMI collection". ACMI.