Edward Summer was an American painter, motion picture director, screenwriter, internet publisher, magazine editor, journalist and science writer, comic book writer, novelist, book designer, actor, cinematographer, motion picture editor, documentary filmmaker, film festival founder, and educator.
12 Facts About Edward Summer
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Edward Summer was acquainted from childhood with another noted water-colorist, Robert Blair.
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Charles Edward Summer, his father, was an amateur photographer who owned a then uncommon Exakta single lens reflex camera.
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At age 15, Edward Summer had a special one-man exhibit of his drawings in a group show at the Buffalo Museum of Science.
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At the Studio Theater, Buffalo, New York, Edward Summer appeared in Many Moons, based on a James Thurber book, choreographed by Michael Bennett, and directed by Roberta Sharpe circa 1961.
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Edward Summer worked with Fred Keller and Neal Du Brock as actor and stage manager, as well as Joe Krysiak founder of Project Artaud.
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At NYU, Edward Summer continued painting and studied with, among others, acclaimed photo-realist Audrey Flack.
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Edward Summer worked with CBS's Camera Three on a two-part series covering the history of comic books and comic strips.
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In 1975, Edward Summer helped his friend Brian De Palma redo all of the promotional materials for Phantom of the Paradise.
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Edward Summer was instrumental in beginning the process that resulted in Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster receiving lifetime financial benefits from their creation of Superman.
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In 2005, Edward Summer founded The Digital Nitrate Prize in order to encourage the research necessary to properly transfer and preserve the world's motion picture heritage using the developing digital media.
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Edward Summer studied with David K Reynolds in Los Angeles, New York, West Virginia and Tennessee.