SciTech
Systems
The work of Jim Songer from 1968 through 1973 led directly to the more widespread acceptance of video-assist in the motion picture industry.
Lighting
These helium-filled balloons with internal arrangements for tungsten halogen and HMI light sources, are usable indoors or out, quick to set up, require essentially no rigging and provide a soft light that can cover a very large area.
Lighting
These helium-filled balloons with internal arrangements for tungsten halogen and HMI light sources, are usable indoors or out, quick to set up, require essentially no rigging and provide a soft light that can cover a very large area.
Photography
The Remote AquaCam brings to the industry an underwater camera housing specifically designed for remote and high-speed operation. Its hydro-dynamic shape facilitates ease of operation for surface hand-held filming, and its remote capabilities allow it to film in confined areas or in situations where an operator cannot be near the camera.
Photography
With over 50 years of involvement in the design and development of underwater camera housings, Jordan Klein's work has had significant influence in the field of underwater photography.
Sound
Employing both tapered line array and filtered line array technologies and unique passive and active filter networks, their work with cinema loudspeakers was both innovative and dedicated specifically to cinema applications.
Sound
For over 20 years Tomlinson Holman has been involved in the research and integration of the constant-directivity, direct radiator bass type of cinema loudspeaker systems.
Camera
This well-engineered camera motor features built-in time-lapse programmability and is useful in an unusually wide range of applications, including MOS production filming, high-speed photography, animation and motion control.
Camera Cranes
This motion control camera crane represents an unprecedented combination of long reach, high speed, and a novel approach to its transport, which allows a very rapid setup on location.
Digital Imaging Technology
This system makes hair, clothing, skin, flesh and muscle simulation both directable and integrated within a character animation and rigging environment.
Digital Imaging Technology
The MARS system provides analysis of camera motion and object motion, and their dimensions. It employs a rich set of user-interface tools and sophisticated algorithms.
Special Photographic
CELCO recorder products have had a significant impact on the industry through continual improvements in their technology.
Digital Imaging Technology
The Nuke-2D compositing software allows for the creation of complex interactive digital composites using relatively modest computing hardware.
Digital Imaging Technology
The ongoing influence of Lance Williams is exemplified in his three seminal papers \"Casting Shadows on Curved Surfaces,\" \"Pyramidal Parametrics\" and \"View Interpolation for Image Synthesis.\"
Digital Imaging Technology
This dominant commercial tracking system provides \"survey-free\" tracking, which significantly reduces the need for painstaking, error-prone measurements on sets.
Digital Imaging Technology
All current cel painting applications in the motion picture industry can be traced back to the original idea and pioneering implementation of Garland Stern.
Stage Operations
This self-contained, low bed picture car carrier and camera platform enables the safe, economic and realistic filming of action sequences that may involve principal actors and dialogue.
Lighting
With the ability to dim these very high powered lights at essentially constant Kelvin temperature and without flicker, these units produce a bright and even light source for general set lighting. The availability of very high wattage units allows production to extend the hours of work past the time when the crew would otherwise have \"lost the light.\"
Stage Operations
Considered a standard of the industry, the Fan Descender provides a means for significantly increasing the safety of very high stunt falls. The system permits falls to be made under controlled deceleration and with a highly predictable stopping point without limitation of camera angles.
Stage Operations
This unique photographic scenic backing allows a smooth transition from day to night views with a single backing. The Roscolight backings provide an important new creative tool to filmmakers, saving time, money and stage space.
Lenses and Filters
These projection lenses provide a significant improvement in the quality of the cinema viewing experience.
Lenses and Filters
The unique optical design of the Ultra-Star Plus projection lenses achieves unprecedented edge-to-edge uniformity of illumination, combined with a significant increase in screen brightness, thus providing a substantial improvement in the cinema viewing experience.
Systems
These systems digitally record live action camera and axis data with practically no impact on the live action production process, allowing compositing for visual effects to become faster and more cost-effective.
Special Photographic
This system streamlines the creation of 3D computer graphics models by allowing artists to convert the data from automatically scanned physical models into a user-specified configuration of patches well suited for use in computer applications.
Special Photographic
This component of the Manex Visual Effects Virtual Cinematography System provides theatrical-quality virtual settings.
Laboratory
The LAD system has become the standard method used by film laboratories and digital film recording facilities for the effecient and uniform control of color and exposure in camera negatives, interpositives and duplicate negatives.
Sound
Designed to eliminate physical acoustical rumble and to mask a microphone's high sensitivity to wind and other unwanted noises, the lightweight and rugged Rycote Microphone Windshields accomplish these tasks without altering or impairing the original frequency response of the microphone.
Sound
Designed to eliminate physical acoustical rumble and to cover a microphone's high sensitivity to wind and other unwanted noises, the Light Wave Systems line of shock mounts and windscreens accomplish these tasks without altering or impairing the original frequency response of the microphone.
Lenses and Filters
The ELM Filters enable a laboratory to achieve additive printer contrast and color reproduction using a subtractive lamphouse.
Laboratory
The elimination of the \"red fringe\" artifact in traveling matte composite photography obviates expensive additional computerized image processing thus reducing the time involved in producing a seamless and convincing composite shot.
Camera Cranes
This cable-driven, manned camera platform allows the operator to spin 360 degrees for unimpeded pans while controlling the downhill speed via brakes. As a device for achieving otherwise impossible shots, Skyman has had a definite influence on later cable-suspended camera systems.
Camera Cranes
This radio-controlled, cable-driven camera platform with its ultra-smooth synthetic cables and powerful hydraulic motors, enables runs in excess of 3000 feet with quick return to start. Operating unmanned, it can function at speeds and through perils that would be unsafe for on-board operators.
Special Photographic
This pioneering laser film recorder, designed and used for motion pictures, demonstrated the potential of this technology for recording digital data onto intermediate film stock.
Camera Cranes
This silent, high-speed motion control modification of a Panther dolly makes it possible to film moving camera composite shots of actors while recording live dialogue.
Camera Cranes
This extensive modification to the Panther dolly allows high-speed moves to be silent, smooth and stable.
Camera Cranes
These components have become the de facto industry standard for use in precision motion control equipment.
Photography
The design and execution of the Spectra Professional IV-A meter has resulted in a practical and successful tool for the film production community.
Camera
Through years of persistent effort, Mr. Kruglak has commercialized and popularized a technique of great utility for motion picture camera operations. By introducing diversity antennas and a time code insertion accessory, he has optimized camera wireless video-assist components.
Special Photographic
The TRACK system is an integrated software tool that uses computer-vision techniques to extract critical 2D and 3D information about a scene and the camera used to film it.
Special Photographic
Ras_track allows the user to determine the postiton and location of the camera and objects in a scene by tracking points in a scanned sequence.
Sound
The K-TEK series microphone boom pole provides production recording personnel with a self-lubricated, light-weight, sturdy pole with multiple accessories.
Special Photographic
This software technique provides an efficient and flexible method for the creation of flowing streams, oceans, tidal waves and turbulence for motion picture visual effects.
Special Photographic
By integrating existing tools into a powerful interactive system, and adding an expressive multi-target shape interpolation-based freeform animation system, the \"Caricature\" system provides a degree of subtlety and refinement not possible with other systems.
Lenses and Filters
Designed to correspond to the spectral sensitivity of color negative film stocks, these filters provide for improved color control in motion picture lighting.
Laboratory
The use of zeolite crystals as molecular sieves to absorb moisture, acetic acid, methylene chloride and a variety of solvents created an effective deterrent to the effects of vinegar syndrome in stored film stock.
Camera
This leveler keeps the camera eyepiece at the same level, regardless of whether the camera position is tilted up or down, enabling the camera operator to concentrate on the composition of the image.
Laboratory
The KeyKode Sync Reader provides a fast, accurate and user-friendly means of utilizing the KeyKode information on film, thereby expediting the editorial and post-production processes.
Editorial and Pre-production
Time code slates have had significant impact on the filmmaking process by simplifying post-production. This development makes the synchronization process faster and more precise, particularly when multiple cameras are used.
Editorial and Pre-production
Due to their features and simplified operational procedures, the Denecke slates have had significant impact on the motion picture industry and have become the standard for electronic time code slates.
Laboratory
The DigiSync Film KeyKode Reader provides a fast, accurate and user-friendly means of utilizing the KeyKode information on film, expediting the editorial and post-production processes.