Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 and editor of Weegee’s New York, has died at age 91…
We were fortunate to see Mr. Vogel at an early Tribeca Film Festival. After a screening of Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 (2004), and during a Q and A, Mr. Vogel described the circumstances behind his editing Weegee’s first film (as I remember it:) Weegee showed up at his door in the middle of the night, holding bags of film, and asked Amos to edit his film, because he couldn’t cut anything… and so, Weegee’s New York was Vogel’s first, last, and only film editing job…