John O'Connor, a visual effects editor who worked alongside Polish filmmaker Zbigniew Rybczynski on the PBS programThe Orchestra, died Sunday in Yorktown Heights, New York, after a short illness.
He was 61. O'Connor spent the past 20 years as chief technology officer for CMI Media Management and was on an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' blue-ribbon panel that judged special effects.
A native of Staten Island, O'Connor worked at Teletronics in New York before joining Rybczynski's Zbig Vision, a pioneering high-definition production facility based in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1989.
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