March, 2012 -

A New Hue in Sound: Talent and Technology Coverage at Technicolor at Paramount

Representing one of the most exciting new sound post-production facilities to be built in Tinsel Town in several decades, the Technicolor at Paramount complex on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood comprises eight re-recording theatres, three ADR stages, a large Foley stage, eight sound design suites, 16 editorial suites, six DVD/ Digital New Media editing/encoding rooms and a pair of 7.1-channel HD video layback/ Transfer/QC rooms. […]

When Film Followed Television’s Lead

Because the shortsighted Hollywood film industry did not want anything to do with the new invention called television in the mid-1940s, the radio industry took over the burgeoning medium. New York became the dominant center for the first decade of TV, as the radio studios were located in Manhattan. […]

Life on Mars: Eric Zumbrunnen Cuts the Other-Worldly ‘John Carter’

Editor Eric Zumbrunnen, A.C.E., first became known for cutting music videos, like Spike Jonze’s award-winning clip for Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” and Björk’s “It’s Oh So Quiet.” […]

Demystifying the Multi-Cam Universe

Mitch Jacobson helps readers learn the same methods, and perhaps achieve the same results, as the masters of multi-cam. […]

Love of Labor: Marvin Davis Knows Well the Power of a Union

Marvin Davis should have become a union organizer. Davis, a Field Representative in the Hollywood office of the Editors Guild, retired in February after a long and rewarding career in the film industry. […]

The CinemaScope Rebound

With the inauguration of television after World War II, motion picture attendance suffered a precipitous decline. From 1946 to 1952, attendance at movie theatres had dropped by almost half, from 83 million to 46 million per week. […]

Michael Powell’s ’49th Parallel’

No matter how hardcore a cinephile you might be, there are always discoveries to be made in an old film never seen or even heard of. […]

The Box That Shook Hollywood: Television’s Emergence

Legendary movie producer Sam Goldwyn wrote the quote, opposite, in an article for The New York Times Magazine in 1949, just as television was emerging as a major mass medium. […]

What’s Under the Hood

For both mixing and workstation technologies at Technicolor’s new post complex, Avid served as the primary hardware supplier. […]

Aural History: Soundmen Celebrated in Long-Forgotten Short

The Soundman is a unique document of how sound departments worked in the later days of studio system dominance. […]

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