Leo Anthony Vale

Usually called PERC over here, perchloroethylene. It's also called dry cleaning fluid. It'll dissolve latex gloves and suck the oils out of your fingers.

'Queen of Outer Space' has a 15 minute pre-title sequence. A reel and a half.

Quite a while back I heard Bale doing an interview on 'Fresh Air', probably for 'Batman Begins'. He was doing it with an American accent. When Terri Gross asked him about the accent, he said he keeps using the accent during the press tour. Sorta like Kirk Lazarus in 'Tropic Thunder'; "Man, I don't drop character 'till I done the DVD commentary."

I didn't say they could drive. Usually they pick the locks of their zoo cages. Mad overstates the case.

That's not a monkey, it's an ape. Orangutan to be more specific. Monkeys are small and have tails. Apes are larger and don't have tails. Orangs are also master locksmiths, so if another ape, could run a camera it would be an orang. ---El Pedante

'Napoleon' is uneven, the action and spectacle stuff are great, the more intimate scenes are, maybe, somewhat hokey. I'll add 'Haxen' 1922 AKA 'Witchcraft Through the Ages'. Stunning cinematography with quite advanced lighting for 1922. There's a 60s version with narration by Wm.Burroughs and a jazz score. Murnau's 'The Last Laugh'. Only one intertitle in the film & that's to intoduce a tacked on happy ending. Eisenstein's 'October'. The shorter version 'Ten Days that Shook the World' is okay, but the longer version is great. 'The Lost World' has a lot of enjoyable stop motion dinosaurs by Wilis O'Brian. A practice run for 'King Kong'. 'Max and his Dog', a 1912 max Linder short. Max thinks his wife's cheating on him and has his dog spy on her while max is at the office. There's a split screen shot of The dog calling max on the phone which cracked me up. Was that type of shot already a cliche by 1912? Fr.Lang's 'Die Nebelungen' movies are good. 'Siegried's Death' is a marvel of graphic design, while 'Kriemhild's Revenge' is a good action film. & 'Menschen am Sonntag', a proto-neo-realist film made in 1929, though released with a musical score. Directed by Kurt und Robt.Siodomak, Edgar G.Ulmer and Fred Zinnemann. Co-written by Billy Wilder. Photographed by Eugen Schuefften. Lots of cooks, but the broth turned out fine. Oh, & Edison's patent for the movie camera is suspiciously similar to the Lumiere French patent.

Sorry. GSAP 16mm Gun Sight camera.

Compare and contrast 'Defiance' with Elim Klimov's 'Come and See'.

Not that I watch music videos, But here's an NPR story about how tiny and odd shaped screens are ruining the visuals for videos: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=99880324 Goddam center framing.

& a Nikon 15mm & a Canon 14mm are on the slow side for shooting interiors. The same goes for 20mm still lens. & they cost almost as much as an Ari mount cine-lens. Go with a nice C-mt like a Switar.

There's the Val Lewton RKO 'horror' movies from the 40s. John Ford movies are pretty obvious. Kurosawa movies. Anthony Mann noirs from the 40s. David Lean from the 40s and 50s. & Sidney Lumet stuff.

In 'Drive, He Said', written and directed by the guy who wrote 'The Trip' and 'Head', the Monkees movie, A POV of a basketball going through a hoop was done by putting a camera, probably a GASP, in a styrofoam ball.

On the Zeisses, the 16mm Distagon will cover 35mm, but the 16mm & 25mm Planars will not.

When i was at WRS, MGM usually did a new Xfer whenever there was an improvement in scanners & they were usually done from a new I/P. Sony/Columbia would do new scans of TV series, also from new I/Ps. All those Screen Gems sitcoms had A&Broll OCNs.

7255 was discontinued in the very early 1970s. The stock is well past expiration date.

QUOTE (Matthew Buick @ Dec 23 2008, 02:34 PM) Also, didn't three strip last see service in 1955 on 'Foxfire'? The last British 3-strip movie was Sandy Mackendrick's 'The Lady Killers', photographed by Otto Heller. Also a 1955 movie. 'Firefox' was released July '55 & 'The Lady Killers' Dec. '55. Thus 'Firefox' is the last US 3-strip movie & 'The Lady Killers' is not only the last British 3-strip movie, but the last 3-strip movie.

Herschell Gordon Lewis claims his 'The Adventures of Lucky Pierre' was shot with an almost 1:1 ratio. Lewis says, they cut out the slates. Then again, this was a 1961 nudie. Quality was not a consideration. The basic audience was only concerned with seeing naked women and hearing a joke or two.

IT IS a CAMEFLEX MOUNT. I don't know why, but there are two versions, the one you describe and the one in the picture. Perhaps it's due to different years of manufacture or different lens manufacturers made variations. I've come across more of the double notch ones rather than the single notch ones.

The mounting threads are different, but Eclair and CP made adapters. At Sawyer, we had an Angie orientable mounted on an ACL using the CP adapter. The Angie O is longer the the standard ACL finder. With the Angie O, the ACL with 400' mabalanced nicely on the edge of the shoulder.

Wouldn't it be more useful to show the side that has the unknown mount?

I couldn't get the edit function to work. Basically CoC is the largest out of focus point that doesn't appear to be out of focus. It's used for determining depth of field.

Yes indeed. From Wikster's: "In photography, the circle of confusion diameter limit (?CoC?) is sometimes defined as the largest blur circle that will still be perceived by the human eye as a point when viewed at a distance of 25 cm (and variations thereon)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_confusion

You don't have to change out the lenses aperture. A mask in the filter ring will work. The square matte on the front of Cooke zooms produces square bokeh. You can cut out masks in all sorts of silly shapes, Xmas trees, letters, derr crossing signs, what ever. The actual mask will be so out of focus as to be invisible, but will affect the shape of out of focus images. Testing required.

here's the grave stone of the famous Lithuanian cinematographer Eduard Tisse: I'm having a bit of trouble finding the cemetary. "Tisse was born Kazimirovich Nikolaitis in Lithuania of Catholic Lithuanian parents; his father was Kazimir Nikolaitis, and his mother was of Swedish extraction. For some reason, the son took the name Edouard, changed his surname to Tisse, and claimed to be German. (Later, in the early 1930s, when it was extremely unpopular to be German, he explained that a mistake had been made, and that he was really Lithuanian.)" From: Ronald Bergan, Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict, The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.: Woodstock, New York (1999), page 90 Kazimirovich is a patronymic, thus actually his middle name. So Eduard probably is his original name. tisse seems to be a shortening of Nikolaitis.

Since it was shot in the early 70s, it would have used the square front LOMO anamorphics. Not that the Soviets didn't also use foreign anamorphics. There was an AC issue from the early 70s dealing with russia. it concained some on set photos of 'Solaris'. The camera there were a Mir and a Rodina. I'm fairly certain the Rodina had a Foton-A zoom on it, which is a 37-140mm square front anamorphic.