The Euston Road School: A Study in Objective Painting

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An easy to follow, quick reference introductory guide for beginning professionals and students in filmmaking and postproduction. It explains all film laboratory procedures in the context of the wide range of technology that is used by filmmakers, explaining what happens and why at every stage. A technical understanding of film processing and printing, telecine and laboratory and digital processes will help you get the best results for your film. The book is particularly useful for those who have come to film making from other media - video or digital.

The book is based on the author's own experience as a lab technician and technical film consultant and provides answers to many frequently asked questions. The different pathways for film production and postproduction are demonstrated as well as the function of the lab at each stage of the process. The complete range of services is offered, with particular emphasis on the often confusing requirements for super 16 and the blow up to 35mm, the intricacies of negative cutting to match a non-linear edit and the process of grading and regrading for the answer print.

This new edition includes:
* An update on all digital formats of image and sound
* Revision sections on Super 16, Super 35
* Additional information on syncing rushes at telecine and to digital images
* The latest telecine machines
* A new, clear and simple glossary

·Gain a complete understanding of film laboratory procedures
·Describes how to use a laboratory's services to gain the best results for film
·Broaden your knowledge through answers to the most frequently asked questions concerning film technology

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All you wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask!.......2001-07-09

The film lab has always been the friend of the cinematographer, even if the methods and technology it represents remain a black-science to many.

Author Dominic Case is Technology Manager at Atlab, Australasia's largest filmlab. He puts it best: "Traditional film technology and post production methods are far from simple ... but those used for the lowest budget short-film are essentially the same as those that have evolved for major feature films ... This book describes the arcane properties and procedures of post production for both traditional film-makers and those experienced in video or digital imaging ..."

Film-stock, colour, B&W, sprockets and numbering, emulsion layers and processing, lab costs, density, gamma, grain, printing ... these and many more are each simply described on their own pages, together with a chart, diagram or accompanying image on the facing page. Editing (flat-bed and digital non-linear), Telecine and Video, Neg matching and cutting, Dupes, Blow-ups, Opticals, Sound and Grading are all given extensive coverage.

Book Description

Provides a thorough overview of audio post-production theory and technique. It is a good introduction for beginners and has enough technical depth to suit practicing professionals, whether in small production houses or larger facilities. Equipment and processes are illustrated with explanatory diagrams throughout, and supported by a straightforward narrative divided into manageable and logical sections.

Computer and digital audio recording have radically changed the audio post-production industry over the past few years. This new and moderately priced technology has increased opportunities for those with even just a basic knowledge of sound and limited equipment to produce high quality results.

This second edition has been completely rewritten to include the very latest techniques in:
· digital audio
· new computer equipment and workstations
· recording and sound editing
· new transmission methods and standards and formats such as DVD.

A technically detailed introduction to the subject suitable for beginners.
Update your knowledge of the latest standards and formats.

Customer Reviews:

I found it boring.......2000-12-13

There was no description of the book when I bought it, so I did not realize that it was a dry technical read. It is not for the creative person, and offers little to nothing on the how to make dynamic layered audio in post. It's about notch filters, and VITC timecode. Very techincal, very non-creative. Maybe that's the point, but is wasn't for me.

Film Technology in Post Production, Second Edition

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Film Technology in Post Production, Second Edition
Dominic Case
Manufacturer: Focal Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ4P2Y

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon #3 - Revised & Expanded Edition (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
Wang Du Lu , and Andy Seto
Manufacturer: HK Comics Ltd.
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ASIN: 9889797291

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The search for Shu Lien's fiance continues. But first Li must deal with the famous kung fu raider, Little Lubu - Phoenix Wei. It's an all out battle with a very unusual outcome. Also, we meet Jade Fox for the first time. All this, plus the Green Destiny makes an explosive return!

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Dogs, Houses, Gardens, Food & Other Addictions
Sondra Gotlieb
Manufacturer: McArthur & Company Publishing, Ltd.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1552783103

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This delightful, insightful, self-deprecating memoir will strike a chord with many readers, as well as tickle their funny bone.

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The Drunken Journalist: The Biography of a Film Stereotype analyzes the stereotype of the hard-drinking journalist, with the goal of discovering why it exists and how it operates in films.

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In 1949, immigrant recording engineer Moses Asch embarked on a lifelong project: documenting the world of sound produced by mankind, via a small record label called Folkways Records. By 1986, when Asch died, he had amassed an archive of over 2,200 LPs and thousands of hours of tapes; so valuable was this collection that it was purchased by the Smithsonian Institute. This is an account of how he built this business, against all odds-and against all conventional thinking and common sense.

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Go and go-moku, the oriental board games and their American versions,
Edward Lasker
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Good Reminders - Not Mindblowing!

to the point

Very easy read packed full of useful information

Do You Make These 38 Mistakes with Your Credit? How increasing your credit scores will improve your lifestyle
Stephen Snyder
Manufacturer: Bellwether
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Binding: Hardcover

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Dirty Little Secrets: What the Credit Bureaus Won't Tell You

ASIN: 1891945033
Release Date: 2004-04-01

Book Description

Your credit scores are the most vital tools you have to unlock your financial power. Having lower credit scores means that you will pay higher interest rates for your car loan, home mortgage, and credit cards. Low credit scores could cause you to be turned down for credit, be denied insurance, or in some states even be charged more for your utilities.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent book.......2006-03-01

This book is well put together and contains much important and mostly unknown information to help increase your credit scores. These mistakes are often made and the book is written in a simple to understand manner. Well worth the money.

Shame on you.......2005-10-08

This book is a scam. Not even a good essay or article, the information provided by Snyder could have been written on one page...

Good Reminders - Not Mindblowing!.......2005-09-26

I went to Stephen Snyder's Credit After Bankruptcy seminar and learned a boatload of stuff I didn't know about credit and FICO scores. This book is an excellent set of reminders of what NOT to do after being discharged from bankruptcy or if you have credit problems in general. Is it epic? No, not really. But I consider it like having my own "38 commandments of credit" and a worthwhile crib sheet of the do's and don't's.

to the point.......2005-07-25

This book is straight forward and to-the-point. I know a lot about credit scoring (from Stephen's first book), and yet I still learned at least a few new things that are very valuable to me regarding my own credit. I gave 4 out of 5 stars only because I would have liked a further, more detailed, explanation of certain things (these things won't be too difficult to find out via the web).

Very easy read packed full of useful information.......2005-05-17

Mr. Snyder takes on the bewildering topic of FICO credit scores and boils it down into a very easy to read, and more importantly, useful book. One can read this book in a lunch hour and come away with a new understanding of credit scoring. I knew that credit scores where important, but I did not know how pervasive they had become in our lives. Did you know that the insurance industry is now checking credit scores to set rates? So, if you have low credit scores your insurance bill is higher than someone with higher scores for the exact same insurance! I learned quite a few things that I've been doing that are killing my credit scores. These are mistakes that are easy to fix or avoid. Thank you Mr. Snyder for this easy to understand and informative guide. This is definitely a 5 star book.

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autobiography

The Best Errol Flynn life story

What a life!

A Star, A Legend, A Man

My Wicked Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn
Manufacturer: Cooper Square Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0815412509

Book Description

Scandalous film star Errol Flynn tells all in this autobiography, detailing his pre-Hollywood career as a mercenary, and his trial for rape in 1943.

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walinja.......2007-05-15

Great book! Didn't realize the remarkable lifestyle he lead before his acting career. It's a book where you take your time to read. WJR

autobiography.......2007-03-09

Most of this book is accurate, but some of it still leaves you wondering how much was fabricated to enhance the stars notoriety. Errol Flynn's private life was as glamorized as on the screen. What he lived didn't need to be embellished because the whole world followed his escapades almost daily in the newspapers and trade sheets. This is a fun read, full of humor and a look at the world before progress stepped in.

The Best Errol Flynn life story.......2007-03-06

This autobiography is a real page turner. I really didn't realize Errol's life was so diverse.
I happen to be watching the TCM channel during Errol Flynn month.
I didn't know he made so many films (wearing pants, I'd only seen him in tights).

I became more interested when I heard this beautiful man (I assumed Errol had been a privileged Hollywood brat) lived in New Guinea for years before he made it in Hollywood.
I couldn't believe it.

I worked in Port Moresby (the capital of New Guinea) for about a month in 1999. I'd worked at many regions overseas; this was the worst hands down. On my first day our host explained the locals may be the ugliest people you've ever seen but they are the sweetest. I was offended by the comment until I got to the hotel (the only hotel in Port Moresby at the time). Wow, all I can say is the biggest feature on many of the locals was there heads.

By the end of the week our host mentioned there was a sort of club during the weekend. My colleagues asked if the locals were wearing shoes. I had different plans, like putting a chair up against my hotel room door. I watched the only two channels on TV. One channel displayed mostly Australians selling livestock the other was a kind of local channel showing severe rain storms destroying huts throughout New Guinea.

I'd ordered pancakes at the hotel once. They were served with the syrup poured on already. I don't expect the locals to know about IHOP but there were large bugs swimming around on the plate too.

Another time I ordered a pot of tea with lemon.
The sliced fruit appeared to have been sucked on prior to being delivered. For the remainder of the trip I ate nothing but Australian mini-bar food which consisted of chips and chocolate.

When we left work in the evening we regularly observed the locals lighting fires in the middle of the road. At the end of our visit one colleague had severe bed bug bites all over his legs and another had a nasty cough.

In addition to the thick green algae in the pool, having to skip over backed up sewer run off in front of the hotel, the strong urine odor in the business center and our hotel room showers and our missing clothing. I was trying my best to get out of there without contracting malaria.

So I definitely had to find out more about this excellent actor. This book is great. I read it twice. Errol describes New Guinea almost the same as it is today. New Guinea still has 100 or more different dialects and languages and most locals are culturally still light years away from the 20th century.

I definitely believe instead of contracting malaria in New Guinea Errol may have died there.
For Wicked Wicked Ways, Mr. Flynn actually dictated his life story to a ghost writer and approved its final manuscript. Unfortunately he died before its release. It was a number one best seller then and it holds up well today. Errol's life story goes from his birth to the end of his Warner Brothers career, to his life in Jamaica.

It's also one of the better novels about Mr. Flynn. Believe it or not there are many novels about him that are poorly written with nonfactual, improbable information.
Everyone wants to make a buck.

What a life!.......2007-02-28

It's too bad they didn't allow Errol Flynn to entitle his autobiography, "In Like Me", as he reportedly intended. That would have perfectly captured the wit, humor and unapologetic joie de vivre of this book and of the man himself.

This is an engrossing and very funny book, about a man who drank life to the lees and had a heck of a great time doing so. Although his Hollywood experiences are fascinating, they almost pale next to the other chapters of his life, from being a colonial nabob in New Guinea, to bumming and conning his way acrosss Asia and the South Seas, to the Spanish Civil War, his battles with his parents and ex-wives, his sailing, deep-sea diving, flying and his myriad amorous pursuits. The man was a true adventurer, in the pattern of some of his most famous swashbuckling roles, which is perhaps what made him such a great fit for those parts. However, several notes of bitterness run through his narrative. Flynn considered himself typecast in unchallenging action-movie roles, while he really wanted parts in which he could exhibit his acting skills. He was also resentful about the fact that his inveterate womanizing had rendered him a phallic symbol in the eyes of the public, when he was actually a well-read man with intellectual interests and literary ambitions. His regrets are understandable, although self-inflicted, but in the final tally life was very good to him.

On a side note, as a fan of the Flashman series of historical novels, it was interesting to me how their author- George MacDonald Fraser- has said that Errol Flynn would have made the perfect big screen Flashman. He said that Flynn fit the part like a glove, from the looks and style to the "shifty quality". In reading this autobiography, I was struck by the uncanny resemblance; in very many ways, Errol Flynn_was_Harry Flashman- in his charm and personality, from the exotic adventures to the hijinks and skirt-chasing. The man bought and sold slaves in New Guinea for crying out loud- how much more Flashie can one get? It made me wonder how much influence this book had on the later series of novels, because even in the literary voice of the books, Flashman seems to be an avatar of Flynn, from the saucy turn of phrase to the devious little asides giving advice to "young fellows" about women and BS-ing one's way through the world. Just an observation.

Flynn was a complex man, to be sure. His father was a world-renowned scientist, his mother a descendant of a Bounty mutineer. It somewhat seemed as if those two impulses were at the basis of a lifelong inner conflict. There was a contemplative, intellectual side of him that was at war with the call of the blood to seek out frontiers and cross them, to discover new experiences and embrace them. The man of adventure came out on top at an early age, but the other side of him never died. This is a first rate, extremely entertaining autobiography, which I highly recommend.

A Star, A Legend, A Man.......2006-03-17

Here in the Rocky Mountain region, we used to call them "rounders" which meant men who were a little wild on the inside. Flynn was a rounder. No, I didn't care if the book was entirely, 100% true. Yes, I think 90% of what he said was true, and the embellishments are easily forgiven.

Flynn was the real deal, regardless of what anyone says.

People who criticize him for recounting his exploits overseas say less about Flynn and say more about their own, sheltered, inexperience of the real world.

If I had to make a judgment call, I would say that this is a book for men. If you are a young man in your 20's or 30's, still lusting for adventure on the inside, but forced to conform to the corporate world on the outside, you will discover a kindred spirit in dear Brother Errol.

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My Wicked, Wicked Ways
Errol Flynn
Manufacturer: Dell
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B0000CL3DQ

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Here, in his own words, Flynn reveals his incredible romp through fifty fantastic years, in which he brashly traded in slaves, stood trial for rape and murder, tricked South Seas natives and loved their women... clawed, brawled and strutted his way from Down Under to the top of Hollywood and London stardom

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Vital Info

Highly Recommended!

This book is very terrifying and very real

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Make sure you see another Christmas

The US Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Survival Manual
Dick Couch , and John Boswell
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An essential guide to the best and most practical survival information available from the American Armed Forces, edited for civilian use by the same packager who brought us The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Manual that sold over 600,000 copies in the 1980s.

Experts agree that the next terrorist attack on our soil will not come in the same form as September 11. The possibility of nuclear, chemical or biological attack is increasingly likely. The U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Counter-Terrorism Handbook will enable its readers to survive such an attack. It contains the best practices of the United States' military, completely edited and adapted for civilian use.

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Gain knowledge of an impending chemical attack using a simple warning system;
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Vital Info.......2005-08-02

As someone who served in the Army, I have had plenty of NBC training and can say that this book is something that everyone should take the time to read. In fact I learned even more from this book because it is presented in a way that anyone can understand, and it is targeted for use by the civilian population. READ IT, it may save your life one day.

Highly Recommended!.......2004-06-07

We assigned writer prepared this recommendation on a lovely, though warm summer day, while butterflies fluttered over a stand of purple thistles. Until he read this book, it seemed like a peaceful scene. Then, it seemed full of threats and hidden perils. He wondered if his building is strong enough to protect against a nuclear attack. What will his family do if someone sprays anthrax spores from a crop duster? Is there a clear spot in the basement to store enough gas masks, and which ones? This book will make you paranoid, too. It says that the threat of an attack is real and growing. You could laugh that off, except that the police just busted an arms dealer for trying to bring missiles into the U.S., except that someone mailed anthrax to strangers, except that there used to be towers at the World Trade Center. Are recommendation - buy this book, read it, then decide whether it is better to prepare or to take your chances. Feeling lucky? At least go buy some flashlight batteries

This book is very terrifying and very real.......2004-01-23

As a former SEAL I have read several of Captain Couch's novels and liked them all. I thought that I would take a chance on this book because of his reputation. I am glad I did and have bought several more copies through you all for relatives. There is a wealth of great material here and I'll give the sequel five stars instead of four if it's longer!

New Year's Resolution.......2004-01-10

My New Year's resolution was to read this book - and I'm glad that I did. It took hearing about the exploits of Special Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq to make me pick up and read this book by former Navy SEAL Captain Couch. He knows what he's talking about and has given us something straight from military training manuals.

Make sure you see another Christmas.......2003-12-29

I received this for Christmas from a cousin who is in the National Guard who told me his unit used it for training. I can see why. This is essential stuff...

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