Tom Rolf was a real professional, a man who knew his craft inside and out. He was all business in the cutting room. I remember that he would come in at 9:00 a.m., sit down, get right to work, and leave at 6:00 p.m. […]
If you think that unwrapping the mysteries of transcoding file-based camera footage provides its challenges, you will find the post-production workflow on Avatar either very scary, or a completely visionary model of things to come. […]
“I had no other recourse but to go to work…or pretend to…” – Norman B. Schwartz […]
A List of Comic Book Superhero Appearances in Cinema and Television. […]
Perhaps some of these tales of superheroes can light a path for us to find the power within ourselves to effect some change and establish our own identities. […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? reflected many of the anxieties of the buttoned-down 1950s and 1960s. […]
Although nowhere near as well represented as their male counterparts in the Academy Awards pantheon, women in post-production nonetheless gained recognition for their craft and brought home some Oscar gold. […]
Picture editor Irving James Wilkinson has unfortunately become the most obscure of the three original founders of the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors (SMPFE). Many sources, including the Guild’s own historical records (which were cited in the story on the beginnings of the SMPFE in the JAN-FEB 12 issue of this publication) had him confused with a similarly named contemporary, the sound editor James R. Wilkinson. […]
Of the many crafts essential to making movies, only editing came into existence because of the medium itself. […]
It was the film serials, from the early days of cinema, that were the true forerunners of contemporary franchise pictures and tent-pole releases. […]
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