Aram Avakian (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aram A. Avakian (born in New York City on April 23, 1926; died January 17, 1987) was an American film editor and director. Avakian was born in Manhattan, NY in 1926. He graduated Horace Mann School and Yale University before serving as a Naval officer on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. On the GI Bill after the war he went to France he attended the Sorbonne. In 1953, Avakian returned to the United States and apprenticed under Gjon Mili. From 1955 to 1958, he was the editor of Edward R. Murrow's program See It Now. He became film editor and director. In 1958, he edited and co-directed Jazz on a Summer's Day, filmed at the Newport Jazz Festival and credited with being "the first feature-film documentary of a music festival." He also edited the 1960 feature film Girl of the Night, "acknowledged for its early use of the freeze frame and the jump cut." His credits as an editor also included Sin of Jesus (1960), The Miracle Worker (1962), Mickey One (1965), and Honeysuckle Rose (1979).