Manhattan Edit Workshop presents: Sight, Sound & Story - Michael Kahn, ACE on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." From Sight, Sound & Story - June 14th, 2014.

Michael Kahn, ACE is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott (“The Savage is Loose”) and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg and features actors Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO).

"Close Encounters" was a long-cherished project for Spielberg. In late 1973, he developed a deal with Columbia Pictures for a science fiction film. Though Spielberg received sole credit for the script, he was assisted by Paul Schrader, John Hill, David Giler, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Jerry Belson, all of whom contributed to the screenplay in varying degrees. The title is derived from ufologist J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the third kind denotes human observations of actual aliens or "animate beings." Douglas Trumbull served as the visual effects supervisor, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens.

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ACE is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950. Film editors are voted into membership on the basis of their professional achievements, their dedication to the education of others and their commitment to the craft of editing.

About the moderator: Bobbie O’Steen is a New York-based writer and film historian, dedicated to sharing the editor’s invisible art with students, professionals, and the movie-going public. She is an Emmy-nominated film editor and the author of two acclaimed books about editing entitled "Cut to the Chase" and "The Invisible Cut." O’Steen is currently partnered with Manhattan Edit Workshop for her series “Inside the Cutting Room," and she also moderates panels for American Cinema Editors’ EditFest. To find out more information on her speaking events go to: www.bobbieosteen.com/.

Featuring a clip from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind” TM & © Columbia Pictures (1977)

Michael Kahn. n.d. In Wikipedia. Retrieved September 16, 2014, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kahn_%28film_editor%29

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind". n.d. In Wikipedia. Retrieved September 17, 2014, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind

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