Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all made it through the holidays in one piece. This first week back has been a short one, so I didn’t get much time to work on any of my ongoing projects. I did pick up the supplies for my first big project of 2024: a new set […]
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Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Cinema Engineering and CinemaGear. We will see you again on Monday, November 27th. Have a lovely holiday!
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This is just a note to say that we have had to temporarily disable comments on all posts until we resolve a massive influx of spam comments flooding our inbox. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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Discussion on last week’s post made me think that this machine would be interesting to share. Back in the 80’s I built several single frame rear process projectors like the one pictured here. These projectors were used mainly to create composites of live action photography and matte paintings. Matte painting composites are an art form
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In the days of yore, back when I was shooting movies with Mitchell and Bell & Howell cameras, we often struggled with getting leather belts spliced together so they ran quietly and smoothly. Several of the assistant cameramen I worked with had a bag full of pieces that they would use to splice belts together.
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We had so many interesting comments on last week’s trip down memory lane, I thought I would show another interesting solution to a problem we ran into while shooting space ships. Budget always being a problem, I had to devise a way to get close enough to the miniatures to give the illusion of the
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A trip down memory lane . . . The movie industry always calls for unique solutions to unique problems. Many of us without the budget to build a Dykstraflex needed a device that would allow our cameras to be focused by computer control and hold the camera at nodal point. To solve this problem, I
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