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Millimeter May 2001

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Editor's Notes

An Alternative to Cinema

Cynthia Wisehart, Editor

Last week, at the Entertainment Technology Center's Digital Cinema Lab at the Pacific Theater in Hollywood, a diverse collection of digital cinema techies, agents, broadcasters, filmmakers, and press settled into their seats to see a Broadway show......


Features

All About the Screen

by Kristinha McCort

Upcoming Events at PROMAX/BDA...


Alternate Showings

by Peter H. Putman, CTS

Will Digital Cinema Fuel Alternative Cinema?...


The Middle Ground

By Michael Goldman

Digital Intermediate Bridges Film and D-Cinema...


High on Music

Blair Jackson

Audio in Remote Places...


The AES31 Standard

by Philip De Lancie

Is Workstation Interchange Within Reach?...


Regional Report

The Pulse of Eastern Canada

by Audrey Doyle

U.S. Strikes Loom Large...


Step by Step

Corkscrew Hill

by Ellen Wolff

The world of special-venue attractions offers fertile terrain for experimentation......


Clips

Stock Effects

Matt Cheplic

The Nortel Networks spot What Do You Want the Internet to Be? (out of Temerlin McClain/Dallas) floats past the Golden Gate Bridge, the New York skyline,...


Say Cheese

Matt Cheplic

Kodak has introduced another 500-speed emulsion to its line of color negative films, and Expression 500T 5284/7284 is already getting a workout on the...


Commercial Collage

Kristinha McCort

It isn't every day that a commercial represents the talents of one A-list feature-film director, much less twelve. However, Magician's Magic, a spot for...


New Tracking Tools

Kristinha McCort

The BBC's upcoming fall drama, Night and Day, will feature a host of effects, including digital recreations of Lancaster bombers and environments, city...


Get Misty

Michael Goldman

For the July TNT miniseries, Mists of Avalon, artists at Pinnacle Studios, Seattle, were asked to apply feature film sensitivity to a television project,...


Rare Beasts

Michael Goldman

Filming rare animals Desert Pronghorns of Mexico's Baja Peninsula during a driving sandstorm was complicated, but according to cinematographer Karen Edmundson...


Digital Resurrections

Michael Goldman

Two days after Rob Harvey accepted the visual effects Oscar for Gladiator, he was back in London, explaining how the effects team at Mill Film brought...


Hot Spots

Hot Spots

by Kristinha McCort

A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter...


Cool Graphics

Cool Graphics

by Kristinha McCort

The best of broadcast graphics......


Fields and Frames

Fields & Frames

by Dan Ochiva

Commentary on the latest technology and trends......


Hotware

Hotware

by Dan Ochiva

Review and roundup of new equipment......


Digital Production News

Studio in the City

Cynthia Wisehart

The load-in opens right onto 23rd street. For many who will use the remodeled Studio A at Manhattan's HBO Studio Productions (HSP), that is the most important spec......


Fade to Black

Fade to Black

Ellen Wolff

Greg MacGillivray, director/producer...


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