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September/October
1997
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On October 27, 1997, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences will mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of
the Hollywood Blacklist.
Judy Chaikin, the producer of what she
calls, a 'living documentary', will bring together rare film
clips and present members of the Hollywood creative
community who were affected by this tragic episode in
American History.
Your Help is
Needed
Please join AFTRA, DGA, SAG, WGA and
IATSE in providing material or professional assistance. Call
the event production office at (213) 782-4680. But hurry.
This is a deserving project with a profound message for our
creative community.
Jeff Berman
"From a pocketbook perspective, workers
are absolutely better off joining a union. Economists across
the political spectrum agree: Turning a nonunion job into a
union job very likely will have a bigger effect on lifetime
finances than all the advice employees will ever read about
investing their 401(k) plans, buying a home or otherwise
making more of what they earn."
New York Times, 8/31/1997
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Entertainment Museum Needs
Volunteers
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The Hollywood Entertainment Museum is the
first museum dedicated solely to the preservation,
interpretation and exhibition of the entertainment arts. It
needs volunteers in visitor services, staff special events,
the collections department, administrative support as well
as museum docents/guides.
The Museum also needs volunteers in
its newly opened editing suite. The editing suite; which is
part of the museum's education center, demonstrates to
visitors of all ages the ways that films and TV shows are
put together, from traditional Moviola equipment to the
latest digital electronic system from Lightworks. Volunteers
are needed to provide instruction to museum guides, conduct
demonstrations, speak to scheduled school groups, and
provide educational ideas for integrating into the editing
suite's presentation.
For more info. call the Education
Dept. at (213) 960-4808.
The post production exhibition and
conference, will take place Feb. 27 - March 1, 1998, at the
same time as the American Film Market. It will again be held
at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. More info: (800)
407-4697 or (213) 654-6530.
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Wide Screen Film
Festival
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Dedicated to "saving the 70's", the Third
Annual Wide Screen Film Festival opens Friday, October 31st
in Long Beach. It's the only film festival in the country
aimed at saving 70mm and other wide-format films. The twelve
films scheduled span the genres, from 'The Lost Boys'
on Halloween to 'Spartacus'
to 'Terminator 2.'
The Editors Guild and the A.C.E. are
collaborating on an educational seminar to be given during
the festival. Guild president Donn Cambern and Laura Young,
past managing director of A.C.E., are developing an editing
panel to meet with the public on Saturday, November 1st.
Clips will be shown to illustrate the unique skills wide
screen editing requires. Panel members will be Dan Hanley
and Mike Hill for 'Far And
Away', Rick Shane for
'Extreme
Measures', Ralph Winters for
'Ben Hur', Frank Urioste for 'Cliff Hangers',
and Don Ernst for 'Le
Mans.'
And what is wide screen without wide
screen/surround sound? We will also have several noted sound
editors on the panel.
This collaboration between A.C.E. and
M.P.E.G. is an opportunity to help the public learn about
the unique contribution of the editing process in the making
of motion pictures.
The Third Annual Wide Screen Festival
will be held at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at Cal
State University, 6200 Atherton Street, Long Beach.
(562)985-7000.
Hollywood appears to be saturated with
Avids. Encore is no longer brokering Avids it does not own,
forcing several Guild members to take on the work of renting
out their expensive editing machines themselves.
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July/August 1997
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60 Years Old And Still
Growing
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1997 is the 60th anniversary of the
founding of the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors.
Started in 1937 the Society became Local 776 of the IATSE in
1944. Back in 1937 editors earned about $100 a week and
assistants $1 an hour! Read all about our history on our
website www.editorsguild.com or in an upcoming issue of
the Newsletter.
On November 15th, 1937, when the first
contract was signed, the membership numbered 571. Please
phone the Guild at (213) 876-4770 or write to us if you were
one of those pioneering charter members. We'd like to hear
from you.
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Guild
T-Shirts!
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Bill Elias and
Cathy Repola wear Editors Guild t-shirts at a rally
in support of daily overtime. The newest t-shirt is
black with white writing. Still only $10. Union
made. Available from the Guild office. Buy one and
wear it with pride.
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Our Technical Directors Win
Emmys
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Winners of the 49th Annual L.A. Area Emmy
Awards were presented by ATAS on May 31st. Three Guild
members won Daytime Emmys. Congratulations to J.J. Jonathan
Jackson and Cindy Owens, technical directors on the L.A.
Marathon which won in the Live Sports Coverage category, and
to Cliff Miracle, technical director for 'Premiere Night: Cirque du
Soleil' which won for
Entertainment Programming.
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Talk About Museum-Quality
Sound
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With a series entitled "The Big Sound,"
the Film Department of the L.A. County Museum of Art
celebrated "sound as an art form and its contribution to the
history of film" this summer. Screenings included a wide
selection of films, from 'Metropolis' and
'Tommy,' to 'Raiders of
the Lost Ark'
and 'The
Exorcist.' There were free
lectures, sponsored by Sony Pictures Entertainment, by Guild
members Walter Murch and Richard Anderson, among others. The
series ran from July 11th to August 9th.
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Organizing
Successes
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The following
companies have recently become signatories to the
I.A.T.S.E. Basic Agreement:
- BSB Prods 'Shadow Warriors' (MoW)
- Counsil Rock, Inc.
'The Jungle Book-Et
Al (f)
- Cypher Prods, Inc.
'Double
Tap'(MoW)
- Deep Impact Prods,Llc.
'Deep
Impact'(f)
- E.F. Prods, Inc.
'The
Apostle'(f)
- Effective Prods, Inc.
'Contact'
- Goin To Montana, Inc
'Montana' (f)
- Gram & Grim Ltd
'The
Mighty'
- HBO-NYC
- Heartache Prods,Llc.
'Get To The
Heart'(MoW)
- Hirsh
E'tainment...1997
MTV Movie Awards
- Hof Prods,
Inc...'House of
Frankenstein'(m-s)
- L.B.TV, Inc.
'Secret World Of
Alex Mack'
(s)
- L.P. Co. 'Buffalo Soldiers'(f)
- La Cucaracha, Inc.
'Mimic'
- Mighty Afrodite Prods,
Inc. 'Jackie
Brown'(f)
- Picture File No. 1 Corp.
'The
Postman''
(f)
- Promenade Pictures, Inc.
'Hope'(f)
- Rialto Film
Gmbh
'Palmetto'(f)
- Rubies, Inc.
'A Price Below
Rubies'(f)
- SOF Prods,
Inc. 'Soldier Of
Fortune'(s)
- Solar Prods, Inc.
'Scream, The
Sequel'(f)
- Southern Cross
Prods....'Nathan
Dixon' (s)
- Summer
Knowledge..'I Know
What You Did'(f)
- Visage Prod. Trust
Co.
- VP Programs, Inc.
'Family
Plan'
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At Last! Sound & Music
Training
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Relief is in sight for patient but long
suffering sound and music editors. The Editors Guild has
made arrangements with Video Symphony for training and
practice on Protools and Audiovision sound and music editing
systems. Sound and music editors and assistants are eligible
if you are on the Industry Roster and are an active member
in good standing. If you are suspended, on withdrawal or
retired you are not eligible.
Video Symphony will be offering
beginning and advanced classes as well as a low cost seminar
series on both picture and sound systems.
Fairlight training is also
continuing.
In addition, Lightworks is widely
expanding its offerings of specialized and advanced classes
at low cost on the various new Lightworks systems.
For further information about the
classes call Lightworks (213) 465-2002 or Video Symphony
(818) 558-1900.
For an application for training, which
is subsidized by Contract Services, call the Editors Guild
at (213) 876-4770. Also call the Guild to schedule practice
sessions on the Avid or Lightworks. Guild member Anil Urmil
will be available to help you, if necessary.
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This Film
Could Be Big
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Pam Malouf, Bruce
Green, and Bonnie Koehler, now editors, meet up on
May 24, 1997, at the 20th anniversary reunion of
'Star Wars' ILM workers on Valjean Avenue in Van
Nuys where Industrial Light & Magic had its
very humble beginnings. Also spotted in the crowd
of about fifty was sound designer Ben Burt who had
come from the Bay area for the get-together. Bruce
remembers when 'Star Wars' producer Gary Kurtz told
him "This film could be as big as 'Planet of the
Apes'"
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Lightworks/Tektronix has laid off its
Hollywood-based marketing staff, including Keith Lissak who
was our linkman. Four people are gone. Keith was laid off
just days before the seminars he put together ran at ShowBiz
Expo.
Stephen Goldsmith, who was laid off
when Avid closed its Hollywood marketing department, has
been appointed VP of Encore Nonlinear.
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Celluloid Is Here To
Stay
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CFI film lab. is building a new addition
for their 35mm film plant. Jerry Virnig, president and CEO
of CFI, says, "This new expansion shows our commitment to
the future of film, and the film industry."
The new 408 in 8/16/24-track system is
now available from WaveFrame. Version 6.2 software will be
shipping in August and product info. and support is
available on WaveFrame's new website www.waveframe.com
WaveFrame is distributed by David Carroll Electronics of
Richmond, CA: (510) 528-8054.
N.T. Audio Video Film Labs now has Avid's
new Media Station v.6.5 in their Hollywood telecine and dupe
facility. Film dailies can be transferred and digitized at
the same time, and delivered on tape and disc together.
Based on Centinela in Santa Monica, NT Audio Video's
Hollywood arm is at 1804 N. Ivar (213) 957-4200.
Instant access to over 14,000 hours of
shotlisted stock footage is now available from Archive
Films' website www.archivefilms.com 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week worldwide. Their database gives immediate info about
what footage is available, without a fee, then the
researcher can e-mail Archive at sales@archivefilms.com with
a description of the shots needed. Negotiations and payments
are conducted off-line. The Image Bank, a subsidiary of
Eastman Kodak, recently acquired Archive, which is the
world's largest provider of archival stock footage and
photos.
The Industry Advantage Health Plans of
the Motion Picture & Television Fund, with Blue Cross,
has created "portable" individual health coverage. It's
specially designed for entertainment industry workers who
are not currently covered by an employer or guild plan. Once
enrolled, members can go in and out of the plan without
re-qualifying (just give 30 days notice). You can keep the
same doctors too, if you choose The Industry Health Network
for your care. Info: (888) 558-4247.
"Own your own historic MGM Moviola!" says
the flier from Stephen B. Cohen at Sony Pictures Studios.
He's selling them off, reconditioned by J & R Film
Company/Moviola. The last of the MGM Moviolas clatters off
into the motion picture sunset, to become a "conversation
piece" in someone's den.
Jim Reichow (213-467-3107) is in
charge of finding them all happy homes, for $300 -
500.
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