Jeff Wexler Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Nice picture of Art Rochester (mixing, behind sound cart) and Michael Evje (long time retired) booming on Farewell to Manzanar, probably around 1975 or 1976. Art's cart is the Michael Evje designed upright-style cart that has inspired us all in building our sound carts. Also pictured is the custom "butterfly" windscreen, a windscreen fashioned from acoustifoam and nothing else, usually constructed for each job (since it never really held itself together for long). This is a design that both Michael Evje and Don Coufal used for years for the Schoeps microphone (and yes, as you probably already know, we used the Schoeps outdoors a lot, even to this day). Don may have even worked on this show and the windscreen in the picture may be one that he built up. photo credit: Hiro Narita (cinematographer) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lightstone, CAS Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Great shot, great mixers, great story and thanks for posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 I really like this old pictures from sound mixers and boom operators people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Piñero Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Very cool! Thanks for posting Jeff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Great Picture. Michael is using a 815 in the picture. CrewC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lightstone, CAS Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 On Art's sound cart is a second boom with the famous "butterfly" windscreen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 I saw that Richard. I was more surprised about the 815 because they seldom used one. You may know the answer to this, what headphones is Art wearing? They're not DT48's. CrewC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lightstone, CAS Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 I'm guessing here, are they the old Koss K-6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted February 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 The headphones are definitely Koss --- I remember Art showing them to me and telling me how great they were. I was not a fan and stuck with my Beyer DT-48 "head clamp" headphones up until the 1980's when I went for the SONYs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 I vote Koss too. "Manzanar" was directed by John Korty--one of the SF Bay Area "greats". (1976) phil p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikefilosa Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 I am pretty sure that those are Koss ... Back then there were a few models of Sennheiser headsets that got use, and it's not impossible that those in the picture might be of that ilk - but I can't remember any truly "closed-ear versions" models. Another vote for Koss MF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Great picture and story. My neighbor Vernon Kato played a kid in this film. Based his part on his father, iirc. In college, Vernon studied with Emiko Omori, who directed the wonderful documentary about Japanese-American internment, Rabbit In The Moon. Vernon's a local news camera guy now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Those may be Koss Pro 4AA headphones (or the AAA version that followed). I probably have a couple of pairs of those in a storeroom somewhere. I wonder if they still work -- it's been years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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