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Introducing the Internet Archives 330 billion  web pages 20 million  books and texts 4.5 million  audio recordings  (including 180,000  live concerts ) 4 million  videos  (including 1.6 million  Television News programs ) 3 million  images 200,000  software programs Prelinger Archives- View thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! http://archive.org/details/prelinger  Wayback Machine- Explore more than 347 billion  web pages  saved over time https://archive.org/web/

I'll have a McGuffin, and a Coke

McGuffin by Hitchcock from isaac niemand on Vimeo .

FilmSpeak, terms to know

A and B ROLLS - The negative of an edited film, cut to picture, but built into 2 rolls, A and B, to allow for invisible splices, instant changes of the timing lights, fades and dissolves. A roll will have all the odd numbered shots, with black leader in place of any missing shots contained on the B roll. B roll has all the even numbered shots, with black leader in place of all the shots on the A roll. Negative is printed in 3 passes through the contact printer, one for each roll, and another for soundtrack. ACADEMY APERTURE - In 35mm this is the full frame exposed by the camera, with an aspect ratio of 1:33. A.D.R. - Automated Dialogue Recording. Very popular term. This is essentially Dubbing, done in addition to, or as replacement for Location Sound. The term A.D.R. has certain secrecy around it, probably because it obscures the fact that dubbing sound was involved when it appears on the credits of films. ANAMORPHIC - Method of cr...

Contracts and Call Sheet Templates Try These Links

CALL SHEETS TEMPLATES CLICK HERE FILM CONTRACT FORM TEMPLATES CLICK HERE

Last Days of a Nazi Cinematographer

The Last Days of a Nazi Cinematographer Hans Ertl was in a hotel room in 1939 preparing to leave for a film shoot in Chile when the Nazis came for him. But the accomplished 30-year-old German photographer wasn't being arrested; he was being conscripted into the military. For the next six years, he served the Third Reich as "war correspondent" assigned to the Wehrmacht's legendary desert warrior, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who led Germany's North Africa campaign. "He did what he could to survive," Ertl's youngest daughter Beatriz tells me as we sit over a soda and cookies in her living room in Bolivia's capital, La Paz. She is shuffling through old family photos, which might also be deemed a veritable archive of the Nazi era. She hands over images of a uniformed Hans in North Africa and on the set of Leni Riefenstahl's acclaimed documentary film Olympia, which chronicled the 1936 Olympics — for which Ertl was the director of photograph...

Cine 1 Handbook

The Bolex and the K3 Camera Manuals are below