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Date of Birth
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29-August-1904
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Place of Birth
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Budapest
(Hungary, Central Hungary)
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Nationality
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Hungary
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Also know as
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János Hoffmann, John I. Hoffman, John Ivan Hoffman
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Profession
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Film director, Film Editor
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John Hoffman, was a masterful editor of montage sequences for several Hollywood studio features.
With his colleague, the Serbian montagist Slavko Vorkapich, Hoffman made two striking visual tone poems, Moods of the Sea and Forest Murmurs. The former film is set to Felix Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and was restored in 2004 by film preservation expert David Shepard.
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