{"id":4780,"date":"2013-08-23T10:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2013-09-01T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T17:55:25","slug":"star-wars-cinematographer-gilbert-taylor-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/23\/star-wars-cinematographer-gilbert-taylor-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"STAR WARS DR. STRANGELOVE Cinematographer Gilbert Taylor Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/movies\/star-wars-cinematographer-gilbert-taylor-dies-at-99\/?track=lat-email-latimesentertainment\">from The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"headline\">\u2018Star Wars\u2019 cinematographer Gilbert Taylor dies at\u00a099<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/movies\/star-wars-disney-chief-promises-movies-every-year-starting-in-2015\/attachment\/star-wars-movie-image-han-chewie-luke\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100409\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope&quot; (1977)On the day &quot;Star Wars&quot; thundered into theaters on May 25, 1977, the film's producer Gary Kurtz appeared on a radio call-in show. Kurtz recalled: &quot;This guy, this caller, was really enthusiastic and talking about the movie in really deep detail. ... I said, 'You know a lot abut the film.' He said, 'Yeah, yeah, I've seen it four times already.' And that was opening day. I knew something was happening.&quot; (Lucasfilm)\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/star_wars.jpg?w=600&amp;h=399\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStar Wars\u201d cinematographer Gilbert Taylor died Friday at the age of 99, leaving behind a rich cinematic legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of an impressive, decades-long career, Taylor amassed a lengthy r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that included a number of landmark films, including Roman Polanski\u2019s \u201cRepulsion,\u201d Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb\u201d and Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s \u201cFrenzy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also served as the cinematographer on the Beatles\u2019 film \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night,\u201d Richard Donner\u2019s horror film \u201cThe Omen\u201d and 1979\u2032s \u201cDracula\u201d starring Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier, in addition to working with George Lucas on the original \u201cStar Wars\u201d film.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Gina McIntyre<\/p>\n<p>[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/movies\/star-wars-cinematographer-gilbert-taylor-dies-at-99\/?track=lat-email-latimesentertainment\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at LATimes.com<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Los Angeles Times \u2018Star Wars\u2019 cinematographer Gilbert Taylor dies at\u00a099 \u201cStar Wars\u201d cinematographer Gilbert Taylor died Friday at the age of 99, leaving behind a rich cinematic legacy. Over the course of an impressive, decades-long career, Taylor amassed a lengthy r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that included a number of landmark films, including Roman Polanski\u2019s \u201cRepulsion,\u201d Stanley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}