"Good God,

but being alive

is so a beautiful moment...."

~William Mayo Hindle

 

A genuinely unique and powerful personality, Will Hindle never gave himself credit for being of interest to anyone...his work, yes, but not him. He could not have been more wrong.....
Vitals:

Born: Shreveport, Louisiana - December 29, 1929

 
Schools attended: Burbank High School, Burbank CA
Stanford University, Palo Alto CA

Military Service: United States Army AirForce, Sgt.

Served two tours. During the first tour, he worked on the U.S. edition of the Stars & Stripes and was given
his own cartoon feature. The second tour, he served as the Editor of the North African edition.

Teaching: Over a number of years, Will taught many workshops, gave lectures and was invited as a guest to seminars

and conferences all over the United States and also abroad. After turning down numerous teaching position offers, he was then courted by the new University of South Florida in 1972. Their stated view of film as an art form and affirmations of the single author approach appealed to Will. He joined the faculty, teaching in Tampa until 1985.

Died: Birmingham, Alabama - April 7, 1987
Of Interest:

~ In between military tours, Will was employed by Walt Disney Studios and was, at that time,

the youngest animator to have ever worked for the company.

~ While at Stanford, Will wrote a number of stories for the Chaparral, Stanford's humor magazine and even served as

Associate Editor for a year. One of his Chaparral stories was also featured in the book: Max Shulman's Guided Tour of Campus Humor.

~ Will sold his first car and much of his belongings in order to buy his first Bolex movie camera.

~ Editing of Will's first completed film, Pastorale d'Ete, was done without use of any traditional synchronizing equipment,

but was instead laid out on his diningroom table and synchronized by using a measuring stick. His completed A/B rolls were off synchronization by merely one single frame for the entire 9 minute film (approximately 12960 frames in length).

~ Will received the largest single grant ever given by the AFI to one film artist for a non-scripted work of film art.

The result was Watersmith.
 
During his lifetime, Will Hindle taught hundreds of students about the basics of film making, about art, and about life. His efforts produced a number of strong prot'eg'ees, including (among others), college professors, film artists / moving media artists, documentarians, script writers, fiction writers and artists in many other mediums.

But first and foremost, Will Hindle was a film artist. He was driven to make films. They were the focal point of his life, the coming together of all of his diverse creative talents. He didn't do it for the money. There were no great monetary grains from personal films...and filmmaking almost always took every cent he had. His films were his passion, his one life-long love....

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~ Thanks