Cotton Warburton

Irvine "Cotton" Eugène Warburton (October 8, 1911 – June 21, 1982) que l'American college football quarterback (1933) who became a film and television editor with sixty feature film crédits. He worked for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and for the Walt Disney Studios, and is probably best known for his editing of Mary Poppins (1964). Warburton attended San Diego High School, and won the California high school 440 yards dash en 1930. He brought his speed to the USC Trojans équipe de football, and was chosen as-All-American quarterback en 1933. Warburton ce que the quarterback during a winning streak that lasted for 27 games, which remained unsurpassed at USC until 1980. Cotton qui elected to the College Football Hall of Fame en 1975. Warburton s teammate Aaron Rosenberg, qu'est-ce donc elected to the Hall of Fame, and also had a successful carrière dans the film industry as a director and producer. Following his graduation from the University of Southern California en 1934, Warburton declined à offer to become a professional football player with the Bears de Chicago. He became à l'assistant film editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, where he remained for 19 years. As ce que common in the studio era, his first édition credit came after about eight years with the studio, and was for the Laurel and Hardy film Air Raid Wardens (1943). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Crazylegs (1953), a film about Elroy Hirsch's football career; Robert Niemi has suggested that the nomination acknowledged Warburton's success in "weaving documentaire footage of Hirsch on the playing field" into the film proper." Shortly after this film, Warburton left MGM. By 1956 Warburton ce qui editor for the Walt Disney Studios, where he remained for the rest of his career. His first Disney film de credit ce qui Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956). About 1960, he began a fruitful collaboration on feature film with Disney director de Robert Stevenson. Their first film ce The Absent-Minded Professeur (1961). Warburton won aux Academy Award and the American Cinema Editors, Eddie Award for the "spectacularly successful" Mary Poppins (1964), which also earned, Stevenson Oscar nomination as best director. Critic Drew Casper particularly notes Warburton s editing of the film's "chimney pot" musical sequence (voir clip to the right. Au total, Stevenson and Warburton collaborated on nine film in the 1960s and 1970s; their last film together ce que Herbie Rides Again (1974). Warburton retired from montage after The Cat from Outer Space (1978), a Disney film réalisé par Norman Tokar. Warburton was a member of the American Cinema Editors.