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I want to let our Atlanta customers know that, for the safety of our staff, Trew Audio in Atlanta is now closing for the day due to hurricane Irma. However, the phones will be answered and orders can still be made.
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For what it's worth.... Obama Joker artist unmasked: A fellow Chicagoan L.A. Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-joker-artist.html RL
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See my first post for an explanation. Portable Nitrate Projector. The nitrate projectors had snuffers in the in case the film caught fire. Another view of the Nitrate Lab The Nitrate Vaults Inside one of the vaults. Some early films.
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I believe this will happen sooner than four years from now: Nokia has claimed that by 2013 it could become possible to recharge your phone from the ambient electromagnetic radiation (AER) emitted by Wi-Fi transmitters, mobile phone antennae and TV masts. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/10/nokia_aer/ I also predict we will be powering our carts in similar ways soon. This of course collides with my occasional rant here in regards to additional "ambient electromagnetic radiation" and it's possible unhealthy side effects.
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Invitation to Attend SMPTE Hollywood Meeting on Loudness and the [pre]CALM Act Hello Everyone: We have been invited to attend the upcoming SMPTE Hollywood monthly meeting on "Loudness - TV and Related Cinema Post-Production" to be held on Tuesday June 15th at the Linwood Dunn Theater. It's not often that SMPTE meetings are entirely devoted to audio, so please plan on attending. The meeting is open to all non-members, and there's free food and refreshments. You can't beat that! Please see the attached announcement for all the details, including members of the panel discussion to be moderated by meeting coordinator Lon Neumann. Regards, Joe…
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Roy E Disney has passed away. I got to know this smart warm hearted man when I was the mixer on "Fantasia 2000". What a class act. He knew everyones name and job. He made all feel wanted. A real gentleman in all aspects on that project. We shot 12/14 days over 5/6 weeks and they were so much fun because he was having a ball. He told some great stories and I am sure he will be missed by his family and many friends. Maybe not Michael Eisner, but your enemy's say as much about you as your friends. RIP Roy. CrewC
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not sure this is good news: https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/09/26/vitec-enters-the-audio-market-with-rycote-acquisition/ edit: didn't see there's already a post a couple of hours ago ahout this:
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I got to hand it to Nikki Finke, she does not hold back speaking her mind. I also happen to agree with her. As an Academy member I think the decision stinks, along with Sherak being the point person in getting the Academy to now have 10 films vying for Best Picture, thus diluting the worthiness of the Academy Award. WHAAAAT? Tom Sherak New AMPAS Prez "What an AWFUL decision. Because Tom Sherak has been responsible of late for many of the worst decisions by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Heck, this guy helped run Revolution Studios into the ground. Now he's going to do the same thing with AMPAS. What a lameass tool. What a moronic Board Of Governor…
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after an announcement that the BBC has £200m to spend on drama next year but nothing commissioned. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-%26-entertainment/bbc-to-spend-£200m-on-not-interrupting-its-own-programmes-201004262675/
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LA Times article reports: ”Filming could start in some counties meeting a specific set of criteria as soon as Monday, Newsom said. However, Los Angeles is likely to be “a few weeks behind,” given the level of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic.” Link to the full article: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-05-20/california-is-preparing-to-restart-filming-protocols-due-next-week
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From Daily Variety: SAG to respond to offer by Thursday Voting results for AFTRA expected tonight By Dave McNary While Hollywood waiting anxiously for the results of AFTRA's ratification vote, SAG's agreed to deliver its official response Thursday afternoon to the majors' final offer to the guild. AFTRA's expected to announce the voting on its deal as early as this evening. SAG's campaigned vigorously against the AFTRA pact, which contains terms matching the congloms' final offer to SAG. SAG's hoping that a defeat of the AFTRA deal will give it the increased leverage it needs to obtain better terms. Ballots went out to all 70,000 AFTRA members, including 44,000 …
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Very sad news. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12355496
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Russian crew films epic at Fort Ross http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Russian-crew-films-epic-at-Fort-Ross-4334755.php The heroes are Dimitri, a Russian television journalist, and Margo, a glamorous sound engineer.
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* The Wall Street Journal * JUNE 12, 2009 Lawmakers Make Noise About Loud Commercials By FAWN JOHNSON Some members of Congress want broadcasters to turn down the volume on television commercials. A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D., Calif.) would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to "preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany." Broadcasters say they are addressing the problem already. "The major television broadcast networks, including ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, are each, individually, implementing policies that attempt to control loud commercials," said David Donovan, pr…
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This is from Nikki Finke and Deadline Hollywood EXCLUSIVE: I’ve just received confirmation of what I’ve suspected since September 4th: the Motion Picture And Television Fund’s pact for Providence Health & Services California to take over the acute care hospital and intensive care nursing facilities is no more. That’s right, the deal has fallen through whose existence I scooped back in on February 23rd, and then announced with such fanfare, called for Providence to broaden and expand healthcare services to the entertainment industry on the storied Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills. However, an MPTF insider tells me tonight that there’s a “better alterna…
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This just in from from Variety: Studios sweeten SAG offer August 15 deadline set by majors By Dave McNary In a bid to nudge SAG toward cutting a deal, the majors have added a sweetener to their final offer on the condition that the guild ratify the deal by Aug. 15. Insiders say the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers has told SAG leaders that the pay increases offered in the deal would be retroactive to July 1 -- the date SAG's previous feature-primetime deal expired -- if the guild can get it ratified by its 120,000 members by Aug. 15. News of the sweetener emerged Wednesday, a day before the Screen Actors Guild's set to officially respond t…
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Here's an ironic twist from The Hollywood Reporter: AFTRA pact brings hope in Toronto But local producers worry productions will leave town By Etan Vlessing TORONTO -- News of a deal between AFTRA and the major studios has fed optimism here that Hollywood producers will once again be greenlighting projects for production in Canada. "I think this is a very major move that clearly paints the way to SAG ending up with a deal that looks like the others that have been ratified," Toronto Film Studios president Ken Ferguson said Wednesday. Canadian studios, burnt by a Canadian actors strike and the Hollywood writers strike earlier this year, have been unnerved by …
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Last night we held a real sound love-fest at the Biltmore Hotel's Crystal Ballroom Here are the winners (in BOLD). Motion Pictures: The Dark Knight Production Mixer Ed Novick Re-Recording Mixers Lora Hirschberg Gary A. Rizzo Slumdog Millionaire Production Mixer Resul Pookutty Re-Recording Mixers Ian Tapp Richard Pryke Iron Man Production Mixer Mark Ulano, CAS Re-Recording Mixers Christopher Boyes Lora Hirschberg Quantum Of Solace Production Mixer Chris Munro, CAS Re-Recording Mixers Mike Prestwood Smith Mark Taylor WALL-E Original Dialog Mixer Ben Burtt Re-Recording Mixers Tom Myers Michael Semanick,…
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Available for download here: http://www.sounddevices.com/news/
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Looking for a boomman in LA, late August
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I am doing a little Mexican movie in LA for four weeks starting the end of August. Fun but not too lucrative<g>. Not free either! My normal boom is in Arizona and I'd like to talk to any Local #695 utilities who would like to "bump up." This is NOT a union picture, so I am not adverse to working with non-union boom ops, but I'd like to offer it to my bros and sis first. Contact me off list if you'd like to know more.
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No IMDB Details listed yet, no production office in town yet. if any of you are mixing this movie or know who is would love to chat with them.
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Daily Variety SAG officially rejects final offer Guild probably won't strike as studios go to work Dave McNary SAG's still not ready to close a deal with the majors -- signaling that the thesps' contract stalemate will linger on into the late summer. Guild on Thursday officially rejected the final offer by the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers on grounds that the pact falls short in such areas as new media and DVD residuals, along with product integration and force majeure protections. "Today's meeting demonstrated that SAG's Membership First contingent unreasonably expects to obtain more in these negotiations than directors, writers and ot…
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Here is a lengthy article in the Los Angeles Times, written by, Joe Mozingo. How a girl's stark words got lost in the Polanski spectacle http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-polanski25-2009oct25,0,5115267.story?page=1 RL
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In the latest edition of TV Technology, Hans Laetz criticizes the local Los Angeles television channels for their lack of warning and news coverage of the disastrous Station Fire. We're on Our Own in L.A. "Deborah McAdams writes in TV Technology that the recent Station Fire narrowly missed burning Los Angeles TV towers, and potentially 1.7 million people would have been without access to emergency information. This is not correct. Every one of the 5.7 million TV households in Los Angeles were completely without access to emergency information via TV during that fire, even though the equipment was largely working. The simple fact is, that had the transmitters on top …
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Welcome to Bruce Perlman, glad you found this Group and I hope it can be a useful resource for you. We haven't really kept in touch much over the years, but it's good to see you here. Regards, your host, Jeff Wexler
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