| Fast Worker: The Films of Sam Newfield
Dixon, Wheeler Winston
Senses of Cinema, October-December 2007, #45
“Sam Newfield is, in all probability, the most prolific director in American sound-film history, but very little archival material survives on his career. The director of more than 250 feature films, as well as numerous shorts and television series episodes, in a career that spanned four decades, from 1923 to 1958, Newfield leaves behind him only his work on the set; next to nothing is known of his personal life. However, using conversations with Sigmund Neufeld, Jr., and Stanley Neufeld, the sons of Sam Newfield's (born Neufeld) brother Sigmund Neufeld, as well as materials from the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, [the author] was able to piece together a rough sketch of the man behind such a torrential output of work.” Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of film Studies, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
Go to the article at:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/07/45/sam-newfield.html
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Posted January 31, 2008
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