Rosemarie Hickson was one of the first American women film editors and directors of documentary, educational, and industrial films.
Biography 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),Broadcasting Telecasting, November 3, 1952, p.105. and the US State Department."News Digest," Ross Reports on Television, 4 (5), Supplement E, Oct 26-1 Nov 1952, p.5. 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.""Women's Week," Sponsor, 7 December 1957, p.22. Despite the relative obscurity nowadays of women editors during the 1930s and 1940s including Hickson, they played an important role in American filmmaking.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),
Hickson served as Secretary and on the Executive Board of the Motion Pictures Film Editors IATSE NY local in the 1940s.Film daily year book of motion pictures for 1942, p. 867.
Filmography Caravans of Trade (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production as part of the Our Land and People series, narrated by Nelson CaseCATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.58. City Week End (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production, narrated by Nelson CaseCATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.67. Conservation Road (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production, narrated by Nelson CaseCATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.73. Land of Enchantment: Southwest USA (1948), as editor, an Affiliated Film production part of the American Scene series and was distributed by the Office of War Information (State Department) The Walking Machine (1949), as editor, for the American Foot Care Inc, narrated by Albert GrobeCATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.472. The Life of Christ (1950?), as photographer, produced by Atlantic Productions"The Film Forum," Cecile Starr, The Saturday Review, September 23, 1950, p.28. 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 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
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External links Land of Enchantment