Paul Golding

Writing

Paul Golding

Known for

Writing

Credits

9 titles

Paul Golding studied film at USC alongside George Lucas, with whom he made some of his earliest shorts. An employee of Haskell Wexler’s Dove Film commercial company, Paul was asked by Haskell to edit Medium Cool. He won a WGA award for The Secret of Lost Valley (1980), co-wrote Beat Street (1984), and wrote and directed Pulse (1988).

Known for

Behind the camera

Beat Street poster
6.9

An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

Beat Street

1984

Pulse poster
5.2

An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy and his divorced father.

Pulse

1988

Pulse poster
5.2

An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy and his divorced father.

Pulse

1988

The Emperor poster
7.0

Comments on the background and popularity of disc jockey "Emperor" Bob Hudson, who bases his shows on the idea that radio is a fantasy.

The Emperor

1967

anyone lived in a pretty [how] town poster
5.4

A visual interpretation of the poem by E.E. Cummings about the life cycle of a townspeople and of one ignored couple.

anyone lived in a pretty [how] town

1967

Herbie poster
6.9

Herbie is a short 16mm black and white film by George Lucas and Paul Golding made in 1966 as part of their USC film school course. It is an abstract film with no story and no actors, that graphically depicts the reflections of moving light streaks and light flashes from traffic at night. It is set to a piece of jazz music by Herbie Hancock, whose first name was used for the title.

Herbie

1966

Herbie poster
6.9

Herbie is a short 16mm black and white film by George Lucas and Paul Golding made in 1966 as part of their USC film school course. It is an abstract film with no story and no actors, that graphically depicts the reflections of moving light streaks and light flashes from traffic at night. It is set to a piece of jazz music by Herbie Hancock, whose first name was used for the title.

Herbie

1966

The Secret of Lost Valley poster
NR

While on a family outing, a boy, Adam, gets lost in the forest and discovers a wild boy there. Communicating by sign language, they become friends. When the wild boy is captured by scientists, Adam helps him escape.

The Secret of Lost Valley

1980

Wipeout poster
NR

A student film by Paul Golding, with help from George Lucas, set to a song by the Surfaris. Very similar to Lucas's own short Look at Life (1965).

Wipeout

1965