The Martini Shot

Sunset in Seattle, on those rare days when it's sunny,
means it's the last shot of the day...
The Martini Shot

Build Your Own Filmmaking Studio

Once you've got a house, you've got most of what you need.
Don't believe me? Build Your Own Filmmaking Studio

Puppetmaster Passes

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Paul Winchell, a ventriloquist,
inventor and children's TV show host best known for creating the
lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's animated friend Tigger, has died.
He was 82.

Winchell died Friday morning in his sleep at his Moorpark home,
Burt Du Brow, a television producer and close family friend,
told the Los Angeles Times.

Over six decades, Winchell was a master ventriloquist --
bringing dummies Jerry Mahoney and
Knucklehead Smiff to life on television -- and an inventor who
held 30 patents, including one for an
early artificial heart he built in 1963. Unfortunately, the
heart wouldn't work unless Winchell had his
hand in the patient's back.

(Thanks a lot to my pal Randy in NZ.)

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Hollywood's Summer of Sergio

Looks like Gene Autry and the Alex Theatre
are finally giving Sergio Leoni the retrospective
he deserves, and as a guy with a Techniscope jones,
I'm excited. This is the Summer of Sergio.

Big, Bigger, IMAX!

Love those big cars,
big guns, big movies...
IMAX!

What happens...?

...when the set knows more than
the Filmmaker?

Digital? Maxivision's Better!

A brilliant film system for shooting
31% more image at 48fps, twice the frame
rate, only using 50% more film. Huh?
Don't worry. This is bigger than math.

Money For Your Movie - Hurry!

Well, we're back on the air, after a massive computer snarl.
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Should Film Be Harder To Break Into?

Here's your question for the day:
Should film be harder to break into?

Film Footage Chart

How many feet? How many frames? Minutes? Seconds?
16mm? 35mm? Thank goodness for
Greg Pak's Film Footage Chart