Hess, Kleinhans, and Lesage met in
Bloomington, Indiana while they were attending graduate school at
Indiana University, circa 1970. Kleinhans remembers, "[W]e were actually sitting having a coffee in the university library and saying, 'We should start a film journal,' because John published something in
Film Quarterly and Julia and I had published something too." After formulating the journal's principles and gathering articles during 1973,
Jump Cut's first issue was released in 1974. Each editor contributed $1,000 toward each issue so that they could be free of advertising. Costs were kept low by publishing on
newsprint in
tabloid format and typing the copy on an electric typewriter (instead of having it
typeset). Distribution was initially done by volunteers driving copies to newsstands in
Chicagowhere Kleinhans and Lesage took college-teaching jobsand
San Francisco/
Berkeley, Californiawhere Hess settled.
Jump Cut was published in print until 2001; thereafter it began publishing online, and all issues are available on its website and the
Internet Archive. ==See also==