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July/August 1998
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The results of the special election for
six new seats on our Board of Directors were announced on
July 23rd:
- Re-recording Mixer: Gregg Rudloff
and Robert Deschaine
- Recordist: John B. Trask and Jack
Keller
- Projectionist: Richard Loakes;
Maintenance Engineer: Scott Young
The big day has finally come and the
Editors Guild is proud to announce that, through the
generosity of Avid and Digidesign, we now have a Pro Tools
sound editing system and an Avid 7.0 picture editing system
at the Guild training facility. Our trainers, Anil Urmil and
Lisa Reardon, will be available to coach people as
needed.
Please bear in mind that the facility
at the Guild is for practice purposes. You should not expect
to come there for training. For practice purposes, you must
have a working knowledge of the equipment, either through
work experience or through having completed an authorized
class.
To be eligible to come for practice,
you must be a member of the Editors Guild and in good
standing.
Time is available in two-hour
sessions, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. For a
session, call the Editors Guild - 213-876-4770
ext.246.
In addition, the training programs are
still in effect for the various systems such as Avid,
Lightworks, Pro Tools, AudioVision, Fairlight and whatever
other systems might become available.
For enrollment in classes call the
Guild for an application: 213-876-4770 ext.220.
The following companies have recently
become signatories to the I.A.T.S.E. Basic
Agreement:
Belleview Prods, Inc.
'Black Jaq' (p)
Citadel Prods, Inc. 'Thrist'
(MoW)
Cubicle Inc. 'Office
Space' (f)
Disorder Prods, Inc.
'Entrophy' (f)
Gideon's Webb Prods. 'Gideon's
Webb' (f)
Glenhill Prods, Inc. 'Fantasy
Island' (p)
Greenblatt Janollari Studio 'Walking On Sunshine' (f)
Lafitte Prods 'V.I.P' (p)
Legalese, Inc. 'Legalese'
(MoW)
My Dog Skip Prods. 'My Dog
Skip' (f)
Radford Prods 'Shannon
Lee' (s)
Romantic Moritz Films 'Romantic
Moritz' (f)
United Lotus Group 'The
Independent' (f)
Victor TV Prods Inc. 'Life Of
The Party' (f)
Wood Film Co., Inc. 'The Wood'
(f)
The Guild's offices have been expanding
to accommodate our growing staff. Ken Harwood has moved on
to Paramount and Stephanie Green is working in reception.
Hank Schloss is now working three days a week, exclusively
dealing with our training program. He's in
Tuesday-Wednesday- Thursday. And, perhaps best of all, we
now have a Pro Tools for members to practice on, as well as
an Avid and a Lightworks.
The big day has finally come and the
Editors Guild is proud to announce that, through the
generosity of Avid and Digidesign, we now have a Pro Tools
sound editing system and an Avid 7.0 picture editing system
at the Guild training facility. Our trainers, Anil Urmil and
Lisa Reardon, will be available to coach people as
needed.
Please bear in mind that the facility
at the Guild is for practice purposes. You should not expect
to come there for training. For practice purposes, you must
have a working knowledge of the equipment, either through
work experience or through having completed an authorized
class.
To be eligible to come for practice,
you must be a member of the Editors Guild and in good
standing.
Time is available in two-hour
sessions, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. For a
session, call the Editors Guild - 213-876-4770
ext.246.
In addition, the training programs are
still in effect for the various systems such as Avid,
Lightworks, Pro Tools, AudioVision, Fairlight and whatever
other systems might become available.
For enrollment in classes call the
Guild for an application: 213-876-4770 ext.220.
Sunday, 27th September
Starts and ends at Paramount
Call Lisa at the Guild
or Maggie
Ostroff at (310) 475-4108 to
register for the Editors Guild team. (Our team number is
0130.) There's no minimum amount to raise and free t-shirts
will be supplied by LA Mad
Dogs. Walk for your health
and raise money for AIDS patients!
The Daytime Emmy awards were handed out
in May, mostly going to soap operas and talkshows.
Congratulations to our members
Tom Syslo, supervising sound editor; Timothy Borquez,
co-supervising sound editor;
Eric Freeman, dialogue;
Leslie Earl Wolf,
Jr., sound editor;
and Marc
Mailand, dialogue editor, for
winning an Emmy for 'Angry
Beavers.' The category was
Sound Editing Special Class.
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1922 Egyptian Renovated By
Cinematheque
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The American Cinematheque has launched a capital campaign to
complete the renovation of the historic Egyptian Theatre at
6712 Hollywood Blvd. Opening festivities will include a
showing of Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments' (1923, Paramount) on December 4th - the exact
75th anniversary of the film's original world premiere at
the Egyptian. It will be accompanied with a live
score.
Once open, the Egyptian will house the
year-round programming of the Cinematheque and also be
available to select film festivals and premieres. Capital
campaign chairman James G.
Robinson said, "The American
Cine-matheque at the Egyptian will celebrate the past in a
grand movie palace while showcasing the future in a
state-of-the-art theatre."
American Cinematheque: (213)
466-3456.
At ShoWest Kodak announced a screen check
program that will help exhibitors enhance the movie-going
experience through a combination of training and some
improvements in projection equipment.
They've talked to NATO, ITEA and other
organizations about screen quality and say there are a lot
of factors associated with that, one of which is screen
brightness. When you project an image on a motion picture
screen it should reflect 16 footlamberts of light, according
to the SMPTE standard, and Kodak is working with theaters to
identify common problems in achieving that screen
brightness, so they can be corrected.
"The newer theaters are great," says
Dick Aschman, president of Kodak's Professional Motion
Imaging division, "Some of the others have work that needs
to be done. Maybe the bulb isn't powerful enough, or there
is something wrong with the lens or lamphouse. In some
cinemas, the angle of the screen is slightly askew. We are
working with cinema managers and their employers to help
make improvements that theyy - and we - are
identifying."
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Frank Warner: Retired But
Busy
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What do you do after a lengthy and successful career as an
Oscar-winning (Close Encounters
of the Third Kind) supervising
sound editor? Retired Guild member Frank Warner has
been very active in his home town of Sedona, Arizona. He
helped organize the fourth Sedona International Film
Festival and its featured workshop "The Working Relationship
of Film Directors & Editors". The workshop drew 275
attendees who paid from $50 to $100 to enjoy the collective
wisdom of Guild editors Walter
Murch, Richard Harris,
Thelma
Schoonmaker, Richard Chew, and
John Burnett. Frank said "as a retired filmmaker I am
honored to have the opportunity each year to bring together
such outstanding people".
The five editors spent the day
discussing the pre-production, production, and
post-production roles played by the editor and director.
Among other discussions, Richard Harris shared stories about
the editing of 'Titanic' and
Walter Murch discussed his involvement in the restoration of
Orson Welles'
'Touch of
Evil.' Frank has been active
with the festival since its inception and is planning to
organize other workshops in the future.
The American Cinema Editors again urges
all active or retired editors who began their editing
careers prior to 1975 to assist the ACE Educational Center
in its effort to establish a database of television editing
credits. It is necessary as a historical reference and
urgently needed as a basis for possible consideration for
any future recognition or awards.
The ACE needs your TV editing credits
up to the present. List separately your episodic series with
dates and approximate number of episodes, i.e. 'The
Rifleman' 1958-1963 (35), 'Cheers' 1983-1984 (9), etc. With
movies of the week, mini-series, specials and documentaries,
please try to approximate the year and, if possible, the
running time for each show.
If, in addition to TV credits, you
also have some feature credits, list them separately.
ACE does not need names of company,
studio, producer, or director but they do need any awards or
nominations you may have received. If you have already
submitted your credits when they were requested a couple of
years ago, send in an update with any additional credits
since then.
Please send your resumes as soon as
possible to:
Bernie Balmuth, ACE
Historian
P.O. Box 927
North Hollywood, CA 91603.
ACE is aware that this is a difficult
assignment. Just do the best you can - they will be grateful
for your help.
Archive Films/Archive Photos, the stock
footage library, announced that its web
site is new and
improved.
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Avid Adds SoftImage And Wins
Award
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Avid Technology, Inc. announced that it
has an agreement to acquire SoftImage which will add leading
3D animation technology to Avid's product line. SoftImage is
a developer of 3D animation, video production, 2D cel
animation and compositing software. Located in Montreal,
Quebec, SoftImage was founded in 1986 and purchased by
Microsoft in 1994. Upon completion of this transaction.,
Microsoft will own approximately 9.1 percent of Avid
outstanding common stock.
Avid also announced that it has
received an engineering award from the Television Academy
for its Real-Time Multicamera Grouping Option for its Media
Composer and Film Composer.
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