Leo Catozzo
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Died | 4 March 1997 Santa Severa, Rome, Italy | (aged 84)
Leo Catozzo (10 December 1912 – 4 March 1997) was an Italian award-winning film editor. He was often credited as Leo Cattozzo. He is best known as the designer and manufacturer of the self-perforating adhesive tape film splicer known as CIR-Catozzo.
Life and career
Born in
Catozzo debuted as a film editor in 1951 for Mattoli's
Being allergic to acetone, Catozzo projected and developed an innovative film splicer, later known as "CIR-Catozzo", "Pressa Catozzo" or just "Catozzo", using it for the first time in Fellini's Nights of Cabiria.[1] The insistent demands of his colleagues forced him first to fabricate a hundred copies and later, to patent the machine which launched, in the early sixties, the mass production of the film splicer, something that gradually drew him away from his activity as an editor.[1] In 1989 he received the Academy Scientific and Technical Award for his creation.[4]
Selected filmography
- A Little Wife (1943)
- Anything for a Song (1943)
- Toto Seeks Peace (1954)
- Nights of Cabiria (1959) - also as actor
- 8½ (1963).
References
- ^ a b c d e f Stefano Masi. Nel buio della moviola: introduzione alla storia del montaggio. La Lanterna magica, 1985. pp. 142–149.
- ISBN 0521575737.
- ^ "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17.
- ISBN 887301500X.
External links
- Leo Catozzo at IMDb