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- Revisiting Gordon Parks
Recently TCM played two of the Gordon Parks films, Shaft (1971) and The Super Cops (1974). Both held up very well and you could see many creative influences they had on other early 70’s movies […] - The 30th anniversary of Jim Henson and Muppet*Vision 3D
Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of Jim Henson. I was working on Muppetvision 3D at Imagineering when he died. I was so excited that Disney was buying the Muppets. I think that Jim Henson was another Walt Disney - Here We Go Again: The Digital Cinema Revolution Begins
Happy Birthday to George Lucas! As we know George was a big proponent of the use of digital technology in cinema. When I worked at Sony in the 1990’s, we were on the cutting edge of using digital cameras for cinematography. - Kubrick, Pudovkin’s Film Technique and Eisenstein
Kubrick: I read Eisenstein’s books at the time, and to this day I still don’t really understand them. The most instructive book on film aesthetics I came across was Pudovkin’s Film Technique, which simply explained that editing was the aspect of film art form which was completely unique, and which separated it from all other art forms.
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Disney Looks to Relocate Its Theme-Park Magic Makers to Florida
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The company wants to send many of its famed Imagineers to a campus in Orlando where about $570 million in tax incentives await.
July 24th
June 29th
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One Hole at the US Open Will Have 88 Cameras for 'Bullet-Time' Replays
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The 2021 US Open golf championship features a special 88-camera array that captures each player's swing from many angles.
June 17th
142. Rick Rothschild on Captain EO and the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter - Tomorrow Society
142. Rick Rothschild on Captain EO and the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter - Tomorrow Society
tomorrowsociety.com
Former Disney Imagineer Rick Rothschild returns to the Tomorrow Society Podcast to talk about the Alien Encounter, Captain EO, and more.
June 14th
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