née march november american film editor film television sound editor educator entertainment industry executive phase career fields worked smaller projects gained little recognition sound editor television shows 1950s worked independent films including savage eye government supported documentaries 1960s minor studio films film targets years late 1960s film instructor major studio film led industry recognition phase career golden reel award sound editing fields came prominence film editor industry executive new hollywood era established close ties directors steven_spielberg early careers known mother cutter term cutter informal variation film editor critical commercial success films jaws brought fields level recognition appears unique film editors jaws particular enormously unexpectedly profitable era summer blockbuster film fields contributions success widely acknowledged received academy_award best editing film year film release appointed vice president feature production universal_studios women enter upper level management entertainment industry career executive universal continued death age early life education training born missouri daughter née working journalist subsequently moved family hollywood prolific screenwriter graduated journalism held positions 20th century fox including assistant sound editor film woman window married film editor stopped working fields sons film editor died heart attack age career sound editing following husband death fields began career television sound editor working shows children programs sky king fury installed film editing lab home work night children young told queen saturday morning working films credit sound editor city sleeps worked experimental documentary directors connections film important subsequent career fields won motion picture sound editors golden reel award film directed following fields sound editor lesser known films including experimental film balcony colleagues low budget film targets sound editing projects represents mature work described scene character bobby starts freeway drivers large oil storage tank sound brilliantly mixed entire sequence bobby shooting tanks shot sound sound editor added sound effects result seamlessly realistic guns metal tanks crack rifles little bobby makes firing film editing teaching fields career film editor commenced director recruited editor film fields worked savage eye edited affair skin directed contact years fields edited independent films best known legend boy eagle shown television program documentaries funded united_states government welfare starting mid-1960s fields taught film editing wrote time greatest impact came began teach film editing generation students operated fringes film business time making documentaries end pushed mainstream hollywood overrun students fields students included fields left written lectures years exists gave american_film_institute characteristic excerpt said feeling movement telling story flow cut rhythm disturbing feel want like jaws time wanted cut didn feeling worked fields worked targets recruited edit edited previous films film successful considered second golden period commenced established fields editor studio films subsequently edited final golden period film paper moon successful film american graffiti fields hired help edit journey pacific documentary film directed hired job introduced griffin subsequently married lucas directing lucas intended wife edit film universal_studios asked add editing team weeks post production george fields sound editor original minute version film scenes film continuously playing background song popular film story set characterized effect rock roll greek chorus beat fields left took months editing create shorter minute version film release extremely successful critics box office shortly release described film editing exists individual stories orchestration stories sense time place material fashionable nostalgia exploits nostalgia feeling movement music night vision white oddly closer early recent american past picture summer nominated work film won academy_awards fields won academy_awards later work commercial success film gave opportunity direct film star wars steven_spielberg jaws fields edited steven_spielberg major film widely celebrated work film editor film jaws won characterized editing sensational interviewed fields wrote jaws scared world brought fortune universal won academy award famous overnight editor gets quoted fields saying told cut picture monumental success editing people discovered woman edited jaws editing jaws intensely studied thirty years film editor lecture fix edit broadly explained contribution editing film fascinating jaws shark personality shark intelligence think shark sense humor achieved acts film shark cutting essential second shark attack scene jaws literally textbook illustration editing innovation occurred late 1960s innovation fields named cut character filmed distance lens cut different framing character occurs figure passes camera character cut masks avoids drawing viewer attention away narrative scene critic comments jaws editing good indication film lasting influence years release jaws favorite movies didn know manipulated like way laugh fear film seen theater sick appreciate vein clinched brilliant sequence begins high angle shot dropping fish water shark bait said don guys come shit started laugh said shit head shark appeared water music felt mind body laugh turn merge collective huge theater literally shook rest movie cut late leap seat learned appreciate editing jaws listing best edited films time compiled jaws listed eighth management universal studios shortly completion jaws fields hired universal_studios executive consultant insight universal reasons hiring fact filming jaws addition editing fields means shuttle forth bike producers town dock minute decisions producers jaws brown book author fields helped promote jaws talk circuit months release theaters june fields earned confidence producers studio executives universal career fields worked independently following unexpected success jaws accepted position vice president universal women hold high executive positions major studios interview fields quoted saying got lot credit jaws fields come cutting room floor customary near film editors change career path fields told young filmmakers feel belong feel certain resentment went moments course know isn true fields work universal quoted saying record business executives actually records movie business executive worked film saves universal fortune day final cuts awarded women film crystal award outstanding women endurance excellence work helped expand role women entertainment industry fields held position vice president universal death jaws film edited apparently discussion fields edit film close encounters kind edited film went edit films thirty years initial director sacked suggested fields direct hired complete film fields died cancer california honor universal_studios named building california lot fields building lies immediately alfred building sponsor annual fields award student sound editing women film foundation honored fields presently fields memorial fellowship women film students ucla selected filmography editor
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