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Directors Guild of America - 75th Anniversary

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:38 am
by David Pierce
The Directors Guild of America (DGA), the labor union for film and television directors and assistant directors, is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

The Winter 2011 DGA Quarterly magazine http://www.dgaquarterly.org/BACKISSUES/Winter2011.aspx has a number of articles about the history of the DGA, including one by David Thomson on King Vidor and an interview with USC professor Steven Ross that is a reminder that AMPAS was originally a company union for the studios.

The DGA is also experimenting with putting visual histories on-line, starting with Delbert Mann http://dga.org/delmann/mann.php Jud Taylor http://www.dga.org/judtaylor/taylor.php Arthur Penn http://www.dga.org/arthurpenn/ and Lamont Johnson http://www.dga.org/lamontjohnson/

David Pierce