Archive for October, 2009

Once upon a time…back in the 80s while in film school I did some assisting of a fashion photographer in L.A. and I noticed that his digital Minolta digital light meter was easy to use and asked a teacher at school why film people didn’t use a digital meter. He said the Spectra light meter [...]

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood …1997-2009
So what was the big deal about 1997? One little word…Titanic, The James Cameron film connected not only with American audiences ($600 million domestic) but with a word wide audience that brought in almost $2 billion dollars.
In it’s opening weekend Titanic was number one in the box office and [...]

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Once Upon a Time  in Hollywood…1977-1996
Whatever blockbuster door JAWS opened in 1975 Star Wars boldly walked through and became one of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the last thirty plus years. Five other Star Wars films followed the first one bringing in a total more than $4 billion at the box office. (The original Star [...]

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I want to feel, sunlight on my faceSee that dust cloud disappear without a traceI want to take shelter from the poison rainWhere the streets have no name
Bono/U2
I’m going to break up my posts on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to point out the significance of the U2 concert last night that [...]

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I’m going to break up my posts on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to point out the significance of the U2 concert last night that was live-streamed via You Tube to seven continents.
I’m sure we’ll here in the coming days how many people participated in watching the concert online. I started watching to to see [...]

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“Film makers can’t get enough of Adolf Hitler. I think it’s because he’s the perfect villain.” Arnold Pistorius
Once upon a time…1941-1976
So in a sweeping look at American film history today we’re going to clip off 35 years.  Again one of the reasons for this brief look back at film history is to see how change [...]

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Once upon a time…between 1927-1941.
By 1927 the film industry was barely 30 years old but great strides artistically and its popularity grew. Filmmaking which started in the United States and France was now happening in Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Sweden and beyond. Film technique grew more sophisticated and the audiences simply grew.
Movie theaters became [...]

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Once Upon a Time…between 1894-1927.
The history of movies did not begin in Hollywood, California. After decades of advances in photographic techniques in the nineteenth century an inventor born in Milan, Ohio and raised (and homeschooled) in Port Huron, Michigan developed the motion picture system as we know it today.
Thomas Edison (and his assistant  William K.L. [...]

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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
Say goodbye to Hollywood
Billy Joel
Say Goodbye to Hollywood
There is a lot of finger pointing going on in the film & TV business right now. Who and what is to actually blame for Hollywood’s economic downturn that has resulted in fewer script [...]

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Once Upon a Time…between 1894-1927.
The history of movies did not begin in Hollywood, California. After decades of advances in photographic techniques in the nineteenth century an inventor born in Milan, Ohio and raised (and homeschooled) in Port Huron, Michigan developed the motion picture system as we know it today.
Thomas Edison (and his assistant  William K.L. [...]

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