Stanley Frazen

Editor

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About this interview

In his two-hour Archive interview, Stanley Frazen (1919-2011) recalls his World War duty, then his job with Warner Brothers Studios in the mail room, then in publicity. Frazen then talks extensively about the various positions he held at Warner Brothers and the stars who he came in contact with there. He progresses to his first editing experiences as a music cutter, then as a freelance editor. He then discusses working for George Burns, Bob Cummings and editor Dann Cahn and briefly discusses the craft of editing. He ends the interview by talking about work on The Beverly Hillbillies, My Favorite Martian, Get Smart, Kojak and The Fall Guy and about his professional and personal relationship with producer/director Garry Marshall. Karen Herman conducted the interview in a joint venture with American Cinema Editors (ACE) at Universal Studios in Universal City, CA on July 17, 2001.

All views expressed by interviewees are theirs alone and not necessarily those of the Television Academy.

"The longer that you're around, you've got to just anticipate what do you want the audience to see, what should they feel... Sometimes it takes a while to learn when not to cut. That sounds like old school but I think it's always true."

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Highlights

Stanley Frazen on how he came to be the editor on The Beverly Hillbillies with Paul Henning

Stanley Frazen on editing the Lone Ranger on ABC

Stanley Frazen on what he learned about comedy from George Burns which he applied to editing

Stanley Frazen on editing Get Smart; on the complexities of his style of editing

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Chapter 1

On his early years and influences; on his World War II duty; On getting a job at Warner Brothers; working as a publicist

On deciding he wanted to be an editor; getting a job as an apprentice cutting sound on Fantasia

Chapter 2

On the Army Signal Core; his early editing jobs on films

On transitioning from film to TV editing on pilots for many shows including Truth or Consequences, The Lone Ranger, and Art Linkletter's People Are Funny and Linkletter and the Kids

On television's technological innovations during the early 50s; working with director Ralph Levy and comedian Jack Benny