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attractions for Universal Studios Tours in

and

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positioning; a high-resolution character
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solves, wipes, luminance keys, chroma keys
and matte generators; a 3-D digital video
effects generator with rotation, scaling and

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SAWYER, INC.

Highland Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038

(213) 466-8211

FAX: (213) 466-7049

'93; Shinshu Expo '93 Theme Pavilion,
70mm

width, 60 fields-per-second video channels

Built-in features include a threechannel video switcher that offers cuts, dis¬

Unique Yoke slips into Junior stand or onto
5/8" stud and gives 360s rotation.

For information: ImMix, P.0. Box

2980, Grass Valley, CA 95945, (916) 2729800, FAX (916) 272-9801.

For information:

Imagica USA, Inc.,

5320 McConnell Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90066,

(310)305-8081, FAX 9310)305-7563.
Calendar
Various dates through 1993: Sony
Video Institute Workshops on subjects including

producing, programming, live events, lighting, ed¬
iting, audio, postproduction, directing, operating;
(213)462-1987.

August 6,7,8,1993: Writers' Connec¬
"Selling to Hollywood" conference on writing
and selling scripts, Glendale, California, (408) 554tion

2090.

August 12-15,1993: Florida Premiere,
film, video and recording industry convention and
trade exhibition, Disney World (Florida). For infor¬
mation: (904) 222-6000.
August 12-15,1993: Retrospective of
Marlene Dietrich's films, hosted by biographer
Steven Bach, American Cinematheque at the Di¬
rectors Guild Theater, Hollywood. For information:

MOVING?

Imagica USA
Imagica USA is an optical house
dedicated to the needs of the specialty film
industry, specializing in large and multi-for¬
mat motion picture optical effects, format

0761.5.20.24.

PLEASE NOTIFY US

conversions and consultation for museums,
destination theaters, world fairs, theme

parks, and entertainment simulators.
The company has a multi-format
aerial head optical printer with which 17
different movements can be interchanged
to create all types of composite effects com¬
bining any formats, including Cinemascope,
IMAX, Iwerks 870, MagnaVision, Omnimax,

South Exposition and Conference (trade and con¬
ference show), Orlando, Florida. For information:

6 WEEKS IN ADVANCE
Miss/Mrs./Mr.
Name

(please print)

New Address

City

Apt. No.

State

Zip

MAIL TO

AMERICAN
CINEMATOGRAPHER
P.0. Box 2230

Hollywood, Ca.
90028

Showscan, Todd-AO, VistaVision, and cur¬
rent single and double band 3-D systems.
Other services offered

are a

multi-format

animation/rotoscope camera; automatic
ultrasonic film cleaning of any guage film;
custom

35/65/70 archival black & white

and pre-through postproduction
project consulting.
Imagic recently worked on the
optical effects, animation and rotoscoping
processor;

for the Back to the Future

The Bide at¬

(213) 466-FILM.
November 17 - 21/ Deadline for en¬
tries August 15: 10th Okomedia International Eco¬

logical Film Festival, Freiburg, Germany, phone

August 28-30, 1993: Entertainment

(904) 248-0100, FAX (904) 248-2038.
August 29: International Film & Tele¬
vision

Workshops' 9-week "Cinematographers in

Residence" training program, Rockport, Maine. For
information: (207) 236-8581, FAX (207) 236-2558.

February 21-23,1994/Deadline for
September 1: Call for papers for Inter-So¬
ciety Color Council Conference on Colorimetry of
Fluorescent Materials, Williamsburg, Virginia. For
entries

information: Richard W. Harold, (703) 471-6870,
FAX (703) 471-4237.
Deadline for entries September 1:
35th Annual International CINDY (Cinema in Indus¬

try) Competition and 15th Annual VCDY (Visual
Communicators Department of the Year) Awards,
Association of Visual Communicators, and (619)
461-1600.

September 3-6,1993: Bumbershoot,
The Seattle Arts Festival, Seattle. For information,

(206)622-5123.
November 5-7,1993/Deadline for

traction at Universal Studios

Flollywood,
combining the visuals of an 80-foot
Omnimax film with

ATTACH

LABEL HERE for address change or
inquiry. If you are receiving duplicate copies of
AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, please send both
labels. If moving, list new address above.

70mm 15-perf film from Graphic

ated and viewed in real time. The
VideoCube incorporates two full-band¬

independentthird title channel. Pro¬
prietary compression technology yields im¬
ages free of temporal artifacts, and the
system's 4:2:2 internal processing elimi¬
nates generation loss.

*Small-11" Blade

15-perf; and Magidson Films' 70mm
5-perf feature Baraka.
Imagica also acted as consult¬
ants on Nova's Special Effects 70mm 15perf film and on Starquest Adventure, a
70mm 8-perf simulator film for Expo '93.
The company is currently developing new

streams enable all video effects to be cre¬

Features:

Sharks,

Films Corp.; Entertopia Symphony 3-D, a
70mm 8-perf Supertek Production for Expo

4-axis motion base

capable of over 2.5 Gs. Recent optical
projects include Search for the Great

August 1993

entries

September 10: Banff Festival of Moun¬

tain Films, Banff, Alberta, Canada, (403) 762-6100.

September 20-25, 1993: Jackson
Wyo¬
ming. For information: (307) 733-7016, FAX (307)
Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Jackson Hole,

733-7376.

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