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Edward Nassour (April 7, 1911 – December 15, 1962) was an American film producer, head of a motion picture studio, and a special effects animator. He was the brother and business partner of William Nassour (1903-1987). Before becoming a producer, Edward Nassour worked as a Los Angeles businessman working in the aircraft manufacturing industry and had an interest in stop motion animation. In the early 1940s he partnered with Walter Lantz to make a stop motion Technicolor dinosaur film for Columbia Pictures entitled ''Lost Atlantis''. Lantz and Nassour produced a test reel, but the project was too expensive and was never completed.〔p.59 American Society of Cinematographers ''American Cinematographer'' magazine, Volume 66 ASC Holding Corp., 1985〕 The two men decided to form a company to make a series of stop motion films but the plan never was completed.〔p.365 ''Motion Picture Herald'' Quigley Pub. Co., 1944〕 In 1946, the Nassour brothers purchased a four-acre lot on Sunset Boulevard and built a studio complex featuring four stages, a projection room, dressing rooms, and offices.〔p.104 Dangcil, Tommy ''Hollywood Studios'' Arcadia Publishing, 2007〕 A variety of independent films (such as Africa Screams) and television shows were produced at the complex. After selling his studio complex, Nassour supervised the dinosaur sequences in ''The Lost Continent''. Later the Nassours made the television series ''Sheena, Queen of the Jungle'' in Mexico.〔http://terrororstralis.com/sheena/irish/television/mexico01.htm〕 Nassour developed a special effects process called "Regiscope" and successfully patented many animation techniques. He claimed to have spent 18 years developing the process from his ''Lost Atlantis'' project.〔pp. 67-68 Johnson, John ''Cheap Tricks and Class Acts: Special Effects, Makeup, and Stunts from the Films of the Fantastic Fifties'' McFarland, 1996〕 Regiscope was used in the Mexican international co-production ''The Beast of Hollow Mountain'' that Edward directed based on designs by Willis O'Brien for his then unfinished film''The Valley of Gwangi''. Edward died of suicide through a self-inflicted knife wound in the heart in 1962.〔''Variety'' Obituary Dec 1962〕〔p.185 Slide, Anthony ''The Television Industry: a Historical Dictionary'' Greenwood Press, 1991〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Nassour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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