Giving a voice to members of the various Craft Departments including but not limited to Production, Camera, Grip, Electric, Stunts, Makeup/Hair, Art, Props, Special Effects, Construction & Transportation, Post Production Editing, Music, etc. who work primarily B-T-W (Below the line) on Motion Picture & Television Productions!
It has been six years since the passing of Sarah Jones (Sept. 22, 1986 - Feb. 20, 2014). Her untimely death was the result of a Producer/Director and Production team's negligence in allowing a "Shot" to take precedence over human life and safety!
A letter from Richard Jones
The last eight surviving Munchkins from "The Wizard of Oz" share their memories in this 1993 documentary hosted by Oz historian John Fricke.
Are you as fascinated by "Old Hollywood" as we are?
Here's a look at the Hollywood Studio System in it's heyday!
Check out this clip, from 1935, of “A Trip through a Hollywood Studio." I love that we get to work in a process that, in regards to its technology, has come such a long way.
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Corey Eubanks will disclose the startling truth about what really took place during the filming of some of the biggest television shows and feature films Hollywood has ever produced, including “The Dukes of Hazzard” – “The Fall-Guy” – “The A-Team” “TRANSFORMERS” - “THE FAST AND FURIOUS” and “TERMINATOR GENISYS”.
We found this on YouTube and thought you'd get a kick out of it! - Intimate home movies filmed by Roddy McDowall on Labor Day in 1965.
Although I saw many films before this, I recall the power that The Greatest Show on Earth held over me as a child. The sense of showmanship and the scope drawn into that one-dimensional screen captured my imagination. I recall that, at the time, it suggested the power of which the cinema was capable.
This (above), was one of those stunts where everything went wrong! It was a picture called "Honky Talk Freeway" directed by John Schlesinger. And the stunt team read like a "Who's Who" of Hollywood Stunt people!
The first time, I flew out of the car, it slid over the hill with me. I rolled down the hill while the car was right next to me. As the tire was sliding within inches of my face, I wondered if it could flip while sliding so fast and I would end up underneath it.
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The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are convinced…
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
