Rosemarie Hickson

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), ^[1] and the US State Department. ^[2] 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." ^[3] Despite the relative obscurity nowadays of women editors during the 1930s and 1940s including Hickson, they played an important role in American filmmaking. ^[4]

Hickson served as Secretary and on the Executive Board of the Motion Pictures Film Editors IATSE NY local in the 1940s. ^[5]

Filmography

• Caravans of Trade (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production as part of the Our Land and People series, narrated by Nelson Case ^[6]
• City Week End (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production, narrated by Nelson Case ^[7]
• Conservation Road (1947), as editor, a 20th Century-Fox Production, narrated by Nelson Case ^[8]
• 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) ^[9]
• The Walking Machine (1949), as editor, for the American Foot Care Inc, narrated by Albert Grobe ^[10]
• The Life of Christ (1950?), as photographer, produced by Alantic Productions ^[11]
• 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 ^[12]
• 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

References

1. Broadcasting Telecasting, November 3, 1952, p.105.
2. "News Digest," Ross Reports on Television, 4 (5), Supplement E, Oct 26-1 Nov 1952, p.5.
3. "Women's Week," Sponsor, 7 December 1957, p.22.
4. 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),
5. Film daily year book of motion pictures for 1942, p. 867.
6. CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.58.
7. CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.67.
8. CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.73.
9. "Land of Enchantment: Southwest U.S.A., circa 1948". Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Archives.
10. CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures 1940-1949, The Library of Congress, 1953, p.472.
11. "The Film Forum," Cecile Starr, The Saturday Review, September 23, 1950, p.28.
12. "Union at work: this is TWUA | Rosemarie Hickson | 1950 | ACMI collection". ACMI .

External links

• Land of Enchantment