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Edgar Burcksen Dies: Emmy-Winning Editor, ILM Alum & Former ACE Board Member Was 76
Edgar Burcksen, a Emmy-winning TV & film editor who worked at Industrial Light & Magic and was a longtime American Cinema Editors board member, has died at 76.
An early backer of non-linear editing, Burcksen then joined Industrial Light & Magic, where founder George Lucas selected him to consult on the user interface of the EditDroid, a precursor to the Avid. His nonfiction credits also include Oscar nominee and NAACP Image Award winner Colors Straight Up, Darfur Now, No Salida, In Search of Peac e, The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania and Borrowing Time. Burcksen also was a longtime ACE board member and former writer and editor-in-chief of its magazine Cinema Editor and taught Advanced Film Editing at the Academy of Art University of San Francisco.
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