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Nov 30, 2015 · William Cameron Menzies: The Shape Of Films To Come by James Curtis is out from Pantheon this month. Curtis will also introduce the films in Film Forum’s two-week festival dedicated to William ...
William Cameron Menzies was born in New Haven, Connecticut on 29 July 1896 to Scots immigrant parents. He studied at Yale and the University of Edinburgh, and after serving in the US Army during World War I he attended the New York Art Student League, then joined Famous Players-Lasky (later to evolve into Paramount ) working in special effects and design.
William Cameron Menzies, the man who more or less invented the idea of production design in movies, casts a very long shadow. The man behind 'Gone with the Wind,' 'Kings Row,' 'Our Town,' 'Things to Come,' 'Invaders from Mars,' 'Reign of Terror,' both versions of 'The Thief of Bagdad' and many, many other films was a genius, pure and simple, and his influence was incalculable.
Here is the long-awaited book on William Cameron Menzies, Hollywood's first and greatest production designer, a job title David O. Selznick invented for Menzies' extraordinary, all-encompassing, Academy Award-winning work on Gone With the Wind (which he effectively co-directed). It was Menzies--winner of the first-ever Academy Award for Art ...
Nov 3, 2015 · William Cameron Menzies was a Hollywood pioneer who developed the role of Art Director and invented the role of Production Designer. Beginning his career in the silent era and working consistently until the mid-50’s he developed the process of ‘story boards’ and film architecture, still used in the production of movies today.
William Cameron Menzies was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and educated at Yale and the Art Students League in New York City. He first worked creating advertising illustrations, children’s books, and magazine layouts. After WWI, his friend Anton Grot brought him to Fort Lee Studios in New Jersey an
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