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MOTION PICTURES + MONTAGE = CINEMA.
The book:
Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design, Walter Murch, c. March, 2025.
The author is 81 years old at the time of this writing. He had been working on this book for quite some time but never had time until the Covid lock down to complete it.
This is the first in a series of three on movie-making; the second and third volumes have already been completed and will be released "at the appropriate time."
It's hard to believe but the author has also included 173 short quotes from others -- quotes which he calls "fortunes" -- come from that small piece of paper with a printed quote one finds in fortune cookies. It's quite unique. I've not seen this before.
In addition, many links to the internet ("http" links) are accompanies by a QR code in the margins -- and the few I have tried, really do work.
This book is going to be filed with cocktail chatter and will be required reading by USC students majoring in the theater arts.
For example, in the introduction, p. 8:
A constant question during production, and especially in the editing and mixing rooms, is: "This is really neat, but will audiences understand and accept it?" Think of Jean-Luc Godard in 1959, experimenting with his jump cuts in Breathless. Or us twenty years later, when we were cutting and mixing the sound for Apocalypse Now in the never-before-attempted spit-surround LFE (low-frequency enhancement) format of what became 5.1 sound.
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Blade Runner
Set in 2019. Think about that.
Released in 1982. From a screenplay that is an adaptation from a 1968 novel.
Two years before Apple released a sledgehammer on IBM.
Apple released its iPhone in 2007.
The first commercially available cell phone was released in 1983.