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Walter Murch

Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and
Canadian-bornWalter Tandy Murch(19071967), a painter. As a boy, he began
to experiment with sound recording, taping unusual sounds and layering them
into new combinations. He attendedThe Collegiate School, a private
preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961. In the summer of 1961
he worked as a music librarian and production assistant at newly-founded
radio station WRVR. He assisted with the July 29th 1961 live broadcast of a
12-hour folk music Hootenanny produced byIzzy Young. This featured, among
many other acts, the first radio performance of the 20-year-oldBob Dylan[6].
Murch then attendedJohns Hopkins Universityfrom 1961 to 1965, graduating
Phi Beta Kappa[7]in Liberal Arts. Murch spent the university school year 1963-
1964 in Europe, studying Romance Languages and the History of Art in Italy at
Perugia and in France at the Sorbonne.
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Murch started editing and mixing sound with Francis Ford Coppola's
The Rain People(1969). Subsequently, he worked onGeorge Lucas'sTHX 1138
andAmerican Graffitiand Coppola'sThe Godfatherbefore editing picture
and mixing sound on Coppola'sThe Conversation,for which he received an
Academy Award nomination in sound in 1974.[10]Murch also mixed the sound
for Coppola'sThe Godfather Part IIwhich was released in 1974, the same
year asThe Conversation. He did sound design work onApocalypse Now, for
which he won his firstAcademy Awardin 1979.[11](He was also significantly
involved in the re-editing work that resulted in the extended
Apocalypse Now Reduxin 2001.) In 1985 he directed his own film,
Return to Oz, which he co-wrote withGill Dennis.
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While he was editing directly on film, Murch took notice of the crude splicing
used for the daily rough-cuts. In response, he invented a modification which
concealed the splice by using extremely narrow but strongly adhesive strips of
special polyester-silicone tape. He called his invention "N-vis-o".
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