Neil Rozensky
- Sound Department
After graduating with honors from film school, The School of Speech
from Northwestern University (BS 1974), Neil moved to Hollywood and soon
hooked up with cinematographer Bob Maxwell and Ken Gibb, script supervisor and makeup
artist, and Nora Maxwell, makeup artist, of Cineworks, INC., sound stage
and equipment rental company. Cineworks also put crew packages
together, and shot films and commercials for other production
companies. Within five months, Neil became a partner in Cineworks at
the age of 22. He had already served as sound assistant on Love, Lust,
and Violence (1974), production manager on The Only Way to Spy (1974),
and he directed the short film, The Warmth of Our Touch, starring
Richard Basehart, for Zero Pet Population Growth, which premiered at LA
City Hall for Mayor Tom Bradley and the LA school board. Besides
annually filming the Christmas Seal commercials for the American Lung
Assoc.Neil also recorded sound on many
other industrial and educational films and commercials. In 1975, he
began an affiliation with Sam Production (Stu Segall and Marty Goldman
recording sound on Drive in Massacre, C.B. Hustlers, Saddle
Tramps, Teenage School Girls. He also recorded sound on other full scale
adult features including Count The Ways (1975) directed by Anne Perry, for which he was
nominated for Best Sound Recording by the Adult Filmmakers Assoc. Of
America. In November 1975, he also began recording sound on Roar, a big
budget production directed and starring Noel Marshall (The Exorcist),
written by Marshall and Ted Cassady, who played "Lurch" on The Addams
Family, and also starring Tippi Hedren (The Birds) and a young Melanie
Griffith. All of this was before Neil turned 24 years old.