Monday, April 20, 2009

Sports Cinematographer Healing After Spinal Injury

Sports Cinematographer Healing After Spinal Injury

Here's the story of Riley Poor, a sports cinematographer who
hasn't let anything stop him. Riley got started by spending his
college money on an $8k movie camera, and a tragic accident left
him paralyzed below the waist, but not even his serious spinal
injury has daunted him. Go Riley!

Click here to read about Riley.

Acme
DeVry
Moviola
Moviecam
Arriflex
Mitchell GC
Mitchell HS
Movie Camera
Mitchell BNC
Mitchell BNCR
Cinematography
Bell & Howell Eyemo
Vintage Movie Camera

Monday, February 11, 2008

Movie Projector

Movie Camera - Movie Projector


A movie projector is just a movie camera, with a light
inside.

The light shines through a positive film print,
and is focused by the lens onto a screen.

A spinning metal shutter blocks light during the "pull-down,"
during which each film frame is replaced by a subsequent one.

Another lamp and lens illuminates an optical soundtrack,
a stripe-like image on the film, next to the picture frames.

Photosensitive circuitry detects and amplifies the sound,
which plays through loudspeakers, both behind the screen,
and on the walls of the theatre auditorium.

Movie Projector

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Hard-to-find and out-of-print
technical manuals for your favorite
motion picture cameras and projectors.
http://hollywoodmanuals.com/

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Cinematography

Movie Camera - Cinematography

One of my favorite Oscar jokes was made by Steve Martin,
just before the Cinematography Oscar was handed out.

Steve said,
"Cinematography is the combination of two words:
'Cinema,' meaning movies, and 'Tography,' meaning..."

And he trailed off, with a confused look on his face.
Very funny.

Cinematography

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Hard-to-find and out-of-print technical
manuals for your favorite motion picture
cameras and projectors.
http://hollywoodmanuals.com/

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Technical Manual

Movie Camera - Technical Manual

Technical manuals keep those movie cameras and
projectors running, for a century or more.

Try that with a digital camera.

Technical Manual

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Hard-to-find and out-of-print technical
manuals for your favorite motion picture
cameras and projectors.
http://hollywoodmanuals.com/

Friday, February 8, 2008

Movie Camera

Movie Camera

A man with a plan, builds a canal.

A man with a movie camera, documents
the canal-builder's efforts for all
time, delighting viewers.

"Camera" means "vault" in Latin.

A camera is a tiny vault of darkness
(camera obscura), or else it's a
big eye (magnus oculus).

A lens in front focuses light rays
on a photosensitive plane in back.

The photosensitive layer is either removed
for development, or else it transmits image
signals, to be recorded or processed.

A "Movie Camera" records a series of still
pictures for sequential review. Because of
a flaw in human vision, these still pictures
are perceived as a single moving image.

Movie Camera

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Hard-to-find and out-of-print technical
manuals for your favorite motion picture
cameras and projectors.
http://hollywoodmanuals.com