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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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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.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
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Former Disney Imagineer Rick Rothschild returns to the Tomorrow Society Podcast to talk about the Alien Encounter, Captain EO, and more.https://dutchnews.nl/news/2021/…
Dutch inventor of the audio cassette tape dies aged 94 - DutchNews.nl
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Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape and a CD pioneer died aged 94 at his home in Duizel in Brabant on Saturday, Dutch media report. Ottens, who studied to be an engineer, started working for Philips in 1952. Eight years later he became head of the firm’s recently introduced product developme...https://mymodernmet.com/daniel-kordan-hotaru-firef…
Photographer Captures Magical Dance of Fireflies Lighting Up a Forest in Japan
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“I felt like a kid looking for the first time in my life at a Christmas tree!”