Year: 2012

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.

The Reel Housewives of Post-War Suburbia

January 9, 2012

A Letter to Three Wives was a classic from the day it was released in January 1949.

Lost in Translation No More: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ScriptSync

“…and it’s being shot completely in Arabic.” Say what? I fervently hoped that the webcam pixelation hid the panic I could feel creeping into my eyes.

The Ones That Got Away: Editing and Sound Oscars That Should Have Been

With the clarity of hindsight,perhaps the Academy can find a way to single out those films of past years that may have been unjustly overlooked.

Leo McCarey’s ‘Duck Soup’

In Syracuse New York in 1967, my dad’s RCA console TV received three broadcast channels. One of them was the local PBS station. That’s where I first saw Duck Soup, the classic Marx Brothers comedy.

Academy Leaders: Post-Production Pioneers Were Early Oscar Winners

In the following articles you will find the complete lists of Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing Oscar winners to date, recipients of the archaic Special Effects. In addition, there is ‘Oscars That Should Have Been’.