OGquaker

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by OGquaker 8y ago
When your getting the thing done, So what? John Ford would just tear pages out of the script to make the bean-counters go away. See, this guy loved this bacon, but the store ran out. So he found a wrapper and drove out to find the farmer. N
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by OGquaker 8y ago
50% of the time; Film records the image when stationary in the camera. Almost all movie cameras use half the time replacing the last film 'frame' with a new one: '180degrees' of the shutter cycle. Thus, if you film a Dol
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by OGquaker 8y ago
'Film' is used at 24 frames every second in the theater, 112 feet every minute. 99% of movies are recorded at that speed. 2001 & Star-Wars space shots were filmed one frame per second, Star-Wars assembled all the things in the
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by OGquaker 8y ago
In Film, the image is only recorded 50% of the time. In my 50 years of experience, no one in Hollywood knows that. Well, not no one:)
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by OGquaker 8y ago
like the French, with their little enameled fly in the white of the urinal, in the movie theater you would not notice, watching the small Pan-Am aircraft rolling as it approached. Passengers would not feel the roll and be thanking the baby
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by OGquaker 8y ago
''Kubrick found what he wanted by trying things out'' Real painfully; No object passes the limb of a planet; 10 identical film takes with his Selson motor camera track, soup one take. Good? Add one more thing (against bl
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by OGquaker 8y ago
Hardware Geeks like me were enthralled. MGM was lost. Charles Lippincott reverted the sales pitch to an inference that a really good LSD experience would come with your movie ticket, and 2001 took off. George Lucas hired Charley when he mi
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by OGquaker 8y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/
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by OGquaker 8y ago
Aversion to risk. A $billion+ gift each year from Uncle Sam to 'maintain' a launch capability and 'free' pads from Harris-Vandenberg and PAFB kept Boeing/Lockheed in the game without risking 'Investors' de