James G. Stewart

James "Jim" Graham Stewart ( born May 21, 1907 in Homewood, Pennsylvania, † March 22, 1997 in Los Angeles, Hollywood ) was an American film technician who in 1949 won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects in the movie Jenny (1948 ) won.

Life

Stewart began his career as a film technician in Hollywood's film industry in 1933 as a sound assistant on the comedy Double Harness by John Cromwell and was instrumental in the creation of some 90 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1943, he was first nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects and together with the photographer Vernon L. Walker for The Navy Comes Through (1942 ) by A. Edward Sutherland. 1944 followed with V.L. Walker and Roy Granville nominated for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the war drama Regardless of losses ( 1943) by Richard Wallace. In the next Oscar ceremony 1945 Stewart was again with VL Walker and R. Granville nominated for the Oscar for best visual effects, this time for the romantic war drama Days of Glory (1944 ) by Jacques Tourneur.

The Oscar for best visual effects he finally won with Paul eagler, J. McMillan Johnson, Russell Shearman, Clarence Slifer and Charles L. Freeman in 1949 for the film Jennie - The Portrait of a Love ( 1948), a fantasy film directed by William Dieterle.

In addition, he even starred in films such as Citizen Kane ( 1941) by Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons (1942 ) by O. Welles and The Bells of St. Mary (1945 ) by Leo McCarey as a film technician. In 1991 he was involved as a sound recorder in the development of film comedy LA Story by Mick Jackson.

As a film technician, he made especially pioneering work in the field of so-called re -recording, a system in which singers, musicians or ensembles are recorded several times in succession and produced by subsequent admixture of the recordings the impression of a larger sound system.