William cameron menzies biography

Drums in the deep south

William Cameron Menzies (July 29, – March 5, ) was an American filmmaker who pioneered the discipline of production design, a job title he invented.

William cameron menzies biography

William Cameron Menzies set the Hollywood standard for designing sumptuous movie panoramas.

Things to come

William Cameron Menzies was born in New Haven, Connecticut on 29 July to Scots immigrant parents.

The maze

As the Father of Production Design, William Cameron Menzies showed Hollywood how to pre-visualize a film compositionally, recasting actors as graphic elements and teasing out the .