The Motion Picture Camera - Past, Present, & Future

Here's a fascinating tribute to the generations of movie cameras which have given rise to so much pleasure this last hundred years or so. It was put together by Jery October.

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Penny Marshall - Lifetime Achievement Award

Penny Marshall is seventy. She has appeared in almost sixty films and TV shows. She starred in Laverne & Shirley, played an agent in The Hard Way (a guilty pleasure of mine), and directed Big, A League of Their Own and a dozen others.

She grew up at 3235 Grand Concourse, the Bronx, a street that also spawned Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren. She began her career as a tap dancer at age three.

Her first marriage (to Michael Henry) took place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. They spent the honeymoon in a motel watching the funeral on TV. Her second husband was Rob Reiner. They parted unhappily in 1979, and that relationship became one of the influences on the development of When Harry Met Sally.

Here's a celebration of her career put together by Jery October.

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"Reverse Angle"

Jery October has put together some interesting videos. This one shows the uses of reverse angle in film, much of it taken from films showing the camera at work. It's fun to play spot-the-movie as you go.

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