I think this might be my favorite Star Wars photo ever. To this point, movie text and credits had been shot similarly since film began, and yet a simple camera tilt and it becomes something else entirely. Iconic. Synonymous. Photo’s like this just make me smile.
Not much is known about he Anderson Printer before ILM purchased it from Paramount Pictures in 1975. It had been used for compositing for Cecil B DeMilles The Ten Commandments in 1956, and shots for Alfred Hichcock’s North By Northwest in 1959. The printer fell out of permanent use as the VistaVision format waned. VistaVision…
In 1995 ILM was awarded a technical achievement award from the academy of motion pictures for the development of the Trilinear High Resolution CCD Digital Input Scanner, commonly known at ILM as the Kodak Scanner, and at Kodak as the ILM Scanner. The evolution of the digital scanner was a joint effort, beginning with concept…
Bell & Howell is a U.S.-based former manufacturer of motion picture machinery, founded as Bell & Howell in 1907 by two projectionists, and headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois. According to its charter, Bell & Howell Company incorporated on February 17, 1907. It was duly recorded in the Cook County Record Book eight days later. The splicer (above) was constructed to join together separate pieces of film, usually bonded…