David C. Strohmaier

Biography

David Strohmaier was a film history buff long before he graduated from the University of Iowa film school in the early 1970s and started his career at Warner Brothers. He has worked as a film and Avid editor on many TV movies, pilots, and series over the last 40 years, for major studios including The Walt Disney Company, MGM and 20th Century Fox. Special Projects have included editing two of the CircleVision films and EPCOT documentaries for Disney theme parks. Some of his more notable editing credits are Northern Exposure, Dangerous Minds, The Great Santini and three Alien Nation TV movies and several independent features. His most personal project to date, Cinerama Adventure, a feature documentary released by Warner Brothers on the complete history of the Cinerama widescreen era which marks David's debut as director and writer. He has served as an historical consultant to Paul Allen's Seattle Cinerama Theatre restoration project and also a continuing consultant to Pacific Theatre’s historic Cinerama Dome. David is working in cooperation with Pacific Theatres/Decurion Corp. (owners of Cinerama Inc. and its assets) in efforts to preserve and promote the Cinerama legacy as well as supervise the digital restorations of all the 3-panel Cinerama feature films and shorts. David has often been interviewed and contributor to websites like in70mm.com, trade publications like Film Technology, fan magazines including Cinema Retro, the web series “Trailers From Hell”, and podcasts such as “The Commentary Track” and “The Extras”. He is a member of the Film Editors Guild-Hollywood local 700, Theater Historical Society of America and also a member of the Academy’s Technology History Subcommittee.