Leslie Winik

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Leslie Isaac Winik (born April 13, 1903 in Sydney , † April 26, 1975 in New York City ) was an American film producer who mainly produced short films on the subject of sports.

Life

Leslie Winik was born in Sydney and attended the British private school Brighton College , which he left in the winter of 1917, and the Peekskill Military Academy in the US state of New York.

In 1939 he founded Official Films, Inc. based in New York City. It originally produced and sold 16mm short films for educational, commercial and entertainment purposes. Winik was also the authorized photographer for the 1939 New York World's Fair , and Official Films marketed the footage until the 1970s. The company also offered early Charlie Chaplin films, which were accompanied by sound and music, as well as cut versions of feature films. It was one of the companies that distributed the anti-Nazi propaganda short film Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style (1942) during World War II . As a producer, Winik appeared in these years with a ten-minute documentary about golfers, sports teams: Follow Thru (1940). In 1945 he sold Official Films to a consortium led by George A. Hirliman, Harry J. Rothman and Aaron Katz.

Winik then headed the New York production company Winik Films Corporation. Their services included the organization of TV shows, production of commercials and recording of sporting events. The subject of sport was also the focus of the short films produced there. Winik filmed prize boxing matches and other events at Madison Square Garden , among other things . In later years he made training films for teams like the New York Giants and New York Knicks .

In 1960 Winik produced the short film A Sport Is Born in collaboration with Paramount Pictures , which tells of the beginnings of the sport of skydiving. This film earned Winik his first Oscar nomination for Best Short Film in 1961 .

From 1963 to 1965 Winik was President of the International Telemeter Corporation, at that time a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures , which implemented pay-TV services.

Again in cooperation with Paramount Pictures, Winik Films produced the short film The Winning Strain in 1966 . For this Winik was nominated again for an Oscar at the 1967 Academy Awards.

Most recently Winik lived in Stamford , Connecticut . He died in 1975 at New York University Hospital at the age of 72. He left his wife, two daughters and two sons.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1939: New York World's Fair (documentary short film)
  • 1940: Sportbeams: Follow Thru (documentary short film)
  • 1944: Boogie-Woogie Dream (short film)
  • 1954: Rocky Marciano vs. Ezzard Charles (TV movie)
  • 1957: Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Carmen Basilio
  • 1958: Carmen Basilio vs. Sugar Ray Robinson (TV Movie)
  • 1960: A Sport Is Born (short film)
  • 1966: The Winning Strain (short film)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brighton College register, (1847-1922). Brighton College, 1922, p. 287.
  2. ^ Who's Who in Audio-Visual Education. No. 6: Leslie Winik. In: Audio-visual Guide, Volume 10. educational and recreational guides Inc., Newark 1943, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, Mark Williams: Rediscovering US Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive. Routledge, New York 2018.
  4. ↑ Anthony Slide: Official Films, INC. In: The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 1998, ISBN 0-8108-3426-X , p. 149 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ↑ a b Leslie Winik, 72, Producer Of Sports Films, Is Dead. In: The New York Times . April 28, 1975.
  6. ^ The 33rd Academy Awards, 1961 oscars.org. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  7. ^ The 39th Academy Awards, 1967 oscars.org. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Winik, Leslie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winik, Leslie Isaac (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1975
Place of death New York City