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5 Years Ago
MARCH 18, 1994
Celluloid Studios, a Denver-based firm best known for its animation, visual effects and mixed media work, has become a publicly held company now that their parent company, Creative Programming & Technology Ventures (CPTV) has gone public.... Alan...
tor partnership model has been successful in varied industry applications, ranging from the Los Angeles City/County Film Office under the aegis of the Economic Industry Development Corp. to several notable educational endeavors, including the Animate IllinoisA program reported on in this column...
Word at press time was that Propaganda Films commercial division is NOT officially part of the proposed deal whereby USA Networks, under the aegis of Barry Diller, would acquire assets of Polygram Filmed Entertainmentaincluding specialty feature film distributor Gramercy Picturesafrom Seagram...
Mary Saxon has resigned from her staff post as West Coast rep for bicoastal Coppos Films. Saxon departed in order to pursue some feature projects she currently has in developmentA.Joanne Ferraro has joined New York-based Creative Film Management International as head of sales....L.A.-based Ritts...
IN THIS INDUSTRY OF OURS, technology has always played a key role. As technology advances at mind boggling rates, it changes the way we do things. However, it is not every day that it redefines our world dramatically. In the realm of editorial, the last huge advance of universal impact was...
5 Years Ago
MARCH 11, 1994
Director James Gartner of bicoastal Gartner/Grasso has been named the best commercial director of 93 by the Directors Guild of America (DGA)....A new publicly held company, International Post Limited has been formed in New York as the parent company of...
city throng, the turnout for The Broadcast Producers Conference last week in Beverly Hills was quite respectable, drawing some of the ad industrys leading agency heads of production, exec producers and producers. But the merit of the two-day confab cannot be measured strictly by numbers. The...
Rhythm & Hues Studios, Los Angeles, has signed a letter of intent to purchase the Marina del Rey, Calif.-based VIFX portion of bicoastal Blue Sky|VIFX from 20th Century FoxA..Director Eugene Yelchin has joined Dektor Film, HollywoodA.Actor/ director Peter MacNicol, best known for his work on...
CLIENT
Hyundai Sonata.
PRODUCTION CO.
Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions, Los Angeles. Bob Grigg, director/DP; John Denis, executive producer; Joel Zimmerman, producer. "Look At It This Way" shot at South Bay Studios, Long Beach, Calif. "...
CLIENT
Nature's Resource.
PRODUCTION CO.
Blue Sky VIFX, Harrison, N.Y. Jan Carl e, animation director; Nina Rappaport, executive producer; Bill Frakes, concept designer; Michael Feder, producer; Leslie Schor, production coordinator; Doug Dooley, senior...