Friday, Jun. 4, 1999

Post Perfect, New York, purchased a Discreet Logic Inferno digital compositing system running version 3.0 software, and a new Silicon Graphics Onyx 2 platform for the Discreet Logic Fire online editing system. The facility also added a Discreet Logic Wire networking system....The Works Video...

Friday, Jun. 4, 1999

SINCE MY ARRIVAL FROM England onto the shores of the United States almost two years ago, I quickly realized that America feeds itself on bad television-talk shows, sitcoms, dramas, soap operas, infomercials and the packaging around them. It never bloody ends! I joined a gym upon my arrival-bang...

Friday, Jun. 4, 1999

vious installment of this column (SHOOT, 4/23, p. 4), I was critical of developments in Florida that jeopardized the continuation of the highly successful anti-tobacco ad campaign created by Miami agency Crispin Porter+ Bogusky. Happily, about a month-and-a-half later and more than 3,000 miles...

Friday, Jun. 4, 1999

5 Years Ago

JUNE 3, 1994

Computer giant IBM has shifted its advertising account to a single agency: Ogilvy & Mather, New York. The move means that over $400 million in ad spending has been pulled from 40 different agencies, leading many in the production community to lament the...

Friday, Jun. 4, 1999

At press time, SHOOT got word that director Larry Williams had died. He had apparently collapsed while walking his dog near the family's Pasadena home on Monday evening (5/31). Williams and his wife, Leslie Libman, co-directed commercials through bicoastal Coppos Films....Two antirunaway...

Friday, Jun. 4, 1999

Vicky Miller, an independent West Coast rep, has parted ways with bicoastal Giraldi Suarez Productions to pursue other interests. She continues to handle the West Coast for bicoastal Coppos Films....Marianne McCarley, manager of Coppos Films' New York office, is leaving that shop to become a...

Friday, May. 28, 1999

NOT so long ago now it seems looking back-that great ads were treated differently.

They were discussed, praised and rewarded. And for a while, their creators would sit on a slightly higher plateau until either one of two things happened. Their next offerings were workmanlike, expected and...

Friday, May. 28, 1999

5 Years Ago

MAY 27, 1994

Labatt Brewing Company, the Canadian-based beer maker that bought an interest in The Partners' Film Co., Toronto, five years ago, has now bought out the production company's remaining shareholders. As a result of the buyout, three Partners' minority...

Friday, May. 28, 1999

GROUSING ABOUT THE STATE of the business has become a full-time pastime for many. Nonetheless, in the midst of much negative talk, there are positive constants within our industry that are too often taken for granted. And sadly, it sometimes takes something tragic to help us realize the value of...

Friday, May. 28, 1999

Bicoastal sister shops Original Film and Holiday have signed Chicago-based Get Reehl Representation as Midwest rep... Ellen Knable of Ellen Knable & Assoc., Los Angeles, is representing New York-based Maysles Films and Maysles Shorts on the West Coast and in the Midwest....Backyard...

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