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Charlotte’s Web  

By Ellen Wolff

In E.B. White's classic book Charlotte's Web, one en- dearing scene shows Wilbur the pig receiving a buttermilk bath. For Paramount Pictures' live-action...

Dr. Strangelove Returns 

By Michael Goldman

New York's Cineric recently created a new black-and- white film print of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 anti-war film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned...

Review: Avid Media Composer 2.5  

By S. D. Katz

If you are looking for a large workgroup solution for a cable station, news department, or other high- volume operation, Avid is the industry standard...

Mark In 

In 1990, Jim Plant, now NewTek's CEO, said that in the future your favorite TV show will probably be made by someone you know....

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Scorsese: Gangster Style 

By Michael Goldman

Like many intense relationships, Martin Scorsese's love affair with what he fondly calls gangster pictures never quite ends. Occasionally, he moves into...

Stock in the Mosh Pit 

By Darroch Greer

There is not another film like it anywhere in creation, and if you missed the proto-punk days of the mid-'70s, when glam rock turned incendiary, you can...

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Need For Speed: Carbon  

By Ellen Wolff

Usually you hear about efforts to make CG human characters look as photoreal as possible. But during production of cinematics for Electronic Arts' (EA)...

SpeedGrade OnSet 2006 

By Geoff Boyle, Cinematography Mailing List

When I began shooting commercials 20 years ago, as a DP I had considerable influence over the post process....

AMD Opteron 

By Dan Gregoire, Halon Entertainment

Halon Entertainment specializes in digital content creation. The company includes former senior staff members of JAK Films, a production company founded...

Shoot Review:
GlobalStreams GlobeCaster 3.1 

Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe

GlobeCaster is based on technology first developed in the late 1990s by the now-defunct company Play for its Trinity all-in-one video production system....