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September/October
1998
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Linda Dove has resigned from the
editorship of the Newsletter due to ill health. She will
continue in an advisory capacity as needed. There may be a
delay before the next issue is published.
The following companies have recently
become signatories to the I.A.T.S.E. Basic
Agreement:
Slippin Down Life
Prods,Llc.. A Slippin Down
Life
Aja Prods,
Inc....Mama Flora's Family
(f)
All That Prods, Inc.... She's
All That (f)
Baby Huey Prods, Inc. Baby
Huey's Great Easter(f)
Blue Sky Films...Purgatory
(MoW)
BPL Films, Inc....
Debtor$ (f)
Brass Ring Prods, Inc... Big
Brass Ring (f)
Carsey-Werner
Charter Films, Inc....national agreement
Dr. A. B. Robotics Pictures...Inspector Gadget
(f)
Free Hazel Films, Inc... Daddy
And Them (f)
Glenhill Prods... Fantasy
Island (f)
Grammar Prods... Any Day
Now (s)
Her Way, Llc... American
Pie (f)
Hollyridge Prods, Inc...
Billboard Dad (f)
I've Got A Secret, Inc...Boys
Are Us (f)
Jonathan Prods, Inc...loan out
Lava Films, Inc... Being John
Malkovich (f)
Lifework Prods, Inc...
Guinevere (f)
Limbus Prods, Inc... Limbo
(f)
Lost & Found Prods... Lost
& Found (f)
Michaelangel Prods, Inc...
Michael
Angel (f).
Milk Mission Prods, Inc... The
Breaks (f)
Pel Prods, Inc ... Love
Connection various.
Runner Prods, Inc ... The
Runner (f)
Saint Mortimer Films, Inc... The White River Kid (f)
Soprano Prods, Inc... Sopranos
(s)
Soundelux Vine St. Studios. .post prod. house
Sweet Time Prods, Inc... Candyman 3
(f)
The Suburbans, Llc... The
Suburbans (f)
Trippin Films, Inc... G's
Trippin (f)
Ventura Valley Films... Halloweentown (MoW)
White Boys, Inc... White
Boys (f)
Wind On Water Prods Inc... Wind
On Water (f)
Several Guild members are planning public haunted houses for
Halloween. Here are two wonderfully creative outdoor setups
you can visit on Oct. 30th or 31st:
4343 Babcock in Studio City (near
Moorpark & Whitsett) created with help from Mark
Phillips and Steve Mann and, in Santa Monica, Adam
Johnston's garden will be giving goosebumps at 1349 Oak
Street (south of Ocean Park Blvd., east of Lincoln).
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Training And Practice
News
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from Hank Schloss
The Editors Guild training program for
the Avid is still available at both Video Symphony and
Montana Edit and both places offer many variations of what
can be done on this system. Training on the Lightworks
system is no longer available through the Guild but may be
available at other organizations.
The following regulations apply to
eligibility for the Guild program: You must be on
the roster of Local 776 as well as a member and you must
file an application for the course you want to take. Get the
application from the Guild receptionist and return it to the
Guild. You will be called by the facility you have selected
when they have an opening. You may take more than one class
but please file only one application at a time.
The practice room at the Guild now has
the latest model Avid and the latest ProTools. We also have
a Lightworks.
To book practice time at the Guild,
call the office (323)876-4770 ext.246. Time is available in
2-hour blocks and all the practice material is provided. An
excellent staff of instructors is on hand at all times and
the facilities are available Monday thru Friday from 9 am to
5 pm. To book practice time, you must be a member of Local
776 in good standing.
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Training and Practice Room
Update
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With outstanding co-operation from both
Avid and Digidesign, the Editors Guild stays in the
forefront with the latest model equipment for our editors
and assistants, maintaining their position as the best
available anywhere. Our ProTools is the latest model. Our
Avid is the 7.0.2 VI and now includes the Boris system for
special effects. Although the Lightworks will no longer be
on the market, the Guild will maintain the one we have for
those editors who will continue to use it.
To reserve practice time on any of the
systems, you must have some working knowledge of that
particular system, or else have recently completed a
training class. For such practice time, call the Guild
office (323) 876-4770 ext. 246. The hours are Monday through
Friday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. in 2 hour sessions. At this
time, ProTools is available only on Wednesdays.
The Guild is pleased to announce that
there are two highly qualified, knowledgeable, experienced
and good-natured instructors available in the training room
to coach those that need it. They alternate one week each
and their names are Brian Damsky and Dieter Rozek. Come and
meet them.
Our formal training program is still
in full operation. To access that, call the reception desk
and ask for an application.
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1999 Sedona International Film
Festival
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Academy Award-winning sound editor Frank
Warner has designed the program for the March 5th and 6th
1999 Sedona International Film Festival workshop. It's
entitled "Sound Thinking: Sounds for Motion Pictures" and
follows 1998's very successful workshop, "The Working
Relationship of Film Directors and Editors." The 1999
workshop will feature Gloria Borders, Gary Gerlich, Gregg
Landaker, Carol Littleton, Mark Mangini, Richard Portman,
Frank Warner himself, Ken Dufva and David Fein.
Visit their website or call 800-780-ARTS.
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Fourth Annual Widescreen Film
Festival
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The Widescreen Film Festival in Long
Beach is the only festival in the country celebrating the
unique artistry and technical wizardry of widescreen
films.
The American Cinema Editors and the
Motion Picture Editors Guild will present "Editing Wide With
Digital." President Donn Cambern will lead an all-star
panel, including David Brenner (Grease), Anne
Coates (Lawrence of
Arabia), Mark Goldblatt
(Armageddon) and Peter Honess (L.A. Confidential).
They will give a hands-on
demonstration of editing with an Avid.
The wide-ranging line-up of films pans
from Gershwin's musical classic Porgy and Bess,
across the aquatic abyss of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, to the cult powerhouse Enter the Dragon.
Fright night festivities will include
a screaming - er - screening of The Haunting
followed by a special advance showing of John Carpenter's Vampires with special guest remarks by directors Robert
Wise and John Carpenter. They will discuss the art of
widescreen filmmaking and the craft of scaring an audience's
socks off!
October 23 - 25 and October 30 -
November 1, 1998 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center,
California State University, Long Beach. (562)
985-7000.
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Guest Mentors Wanted In
Canada
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The Canadian Film Centre is looking for
people who have a lot of editing credits, believe in the
old-fashioned notion of mentorship in the editing room and
would like to be 'guest mentors'. Their mentors so far have
included editors such as Carol Littleton. The Canadian Film
Centre was founded by Norman Jewison in 1988 to train
writers, directors, producers and, since last year, picture
editors in the art and craft of dramatic
storytelling.
Contact Kathryn Emslie, the director
of film & TV programmes at the Canadian Film Centre,
2489 Bayview Ave., North York, Ontario, Canada M2L 1A8
Telephone: 416-445-1446 ext. 215. Fax: 416-445-9481 or
e-mail.
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A Premiere 75 Years
Later
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"You are here to please me.
Nothing else on earth matters."
Cecil
B. DeMille to his staff.
That's the arresting statement on the
American Cinematheque's flier announcing their screening
of The Ten Commandments
on December 4th. A vintage
premiere of DeMille's 1923 silent classic will be the
opening event at the American Cinematheque's renovated
Egyptian Theatre. The 75th anniversary presentation will be
accompanied by a live score conducted by acclaimed
musicologist Gillian Anderson. Non-members may be able to
buy tickets in November for screenings on December 6th -
8th. Call (213) 466-FILM for more information.
The Egyptian Theatre, built by the
legendary Sid Grauman, opened in 1922 as the first major
movie theater in Hollywood. The American Cinema-theque is a
non-profit viewer-supported film exhibition and cultural
organization dedicated to the celebration of the moving
picture in all its forms, showing classics, foreign fare and
fringe art films.
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Cinerama Dome to be
Gutted
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The City of Los Angeles' Cultural
Heritage Commission decided in August that Pacific Theaters
will be allowed to remodel the inside of the Cinerama
Dome.
"We can't and should not be able to
compel the owner to support a building at their expense that
is a money loser," according to Commissioner Thomas Hunter
Russell.
The decision must be confirmed by the
L.A. City Council.
Eight years ago Pacific Theaters
claimed the El Capitan was a failure but preservationists
won that battle.
The 937-seat Dome was built in 1963.
Its curved screen is one of only five Cinerama screens left
in the country. Ironically Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
is spending millions to restore the Martin Cinerama theater
in Seattle, with plans to revive 3-panel wonders
like This Is
Cinerama and How the West Was Won.
Call Doug Haines at the Friends of
Cinerama (213) 960-5045 to learn how you can help save our
industry's history.
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