Hitting The Big Time
After Thumb Out: Chapter Nine: My union card gets me into the dream factory
They put me in the ready room.
It was a glorified storage closet — floor-to-ceiling racks of 35mm film in a windowless room deep inside the editorial building at Universal Studios, Studio City, California. Each ten-minute segment of a TV show or feature film could generate a dozen or more reels. Picture reels, dialogue reels,…