August 30, 2003 Big Time Reality: Size Does Matter to Large Format Filmmakers The bigger the image, the bigger the impact," says Robert Dennis. "Filmmakers have been experimenting with large format since the early days of Read more
August 30, 2003 Celebrating Cinerama: The Birth, Death and Seeming Resurrection of the First Ultra-Widescreen Format "One night in 1997, I was watching a documentary about Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, on American Experience ," says David Strohmaier Read more
April 2, 2003 21st Century Doc-Making: Faster, Cheaper and Definitely In Control As a documentary producer/director for almost two decades, I have had the opportunity to experience first-hand the meteoric evolution of technology Read more
March 3, 2003 HD Power to the People: But Is It for Soderberghs or Soccer Moms? Veteran documentarian DA Pennebaker is fond of drawing analogies between film and video. In the 1930s, he recalls, filmmakers told their stories with Read more
February 2, 2003 Tilting At Windmills: The Sometimes Quixotic Pursuit of Transferring Digital Video to Film At this year's DOCtober, 19 of the 21 films screened were shot on Digital Video (DV) and blown up to film. At the recent AFI Fest, 11 of the 12 docs Read more
February 2, 2003 Deep-Dive Docs: Cameron's and MacGillivray's New Underwater Films Go Where No Camera Has Gone Before This spring, two new documentaries bring to large format screens some of the most remarkable underwater images ever captured. On February 14, IMAX Read more
February 2, 2003 Save Our Oceans! 'Coral Reef Adventure' Makes a Large Format Plea "It is important to make the primary distinction between a method which describes only the surface values of a subject, and the method which more Read more
February 2, 2003 In the Beginning, There Was 'Nature': The Natural History of Wildlife Programming Fangs, claws, dripping blood and sex scenes...No, it's not a drive-in monster movie from the '50s; it's probably a PBS wildlife special, the kind of Read more
February 1, 2002 Mixed Media: Swapping Formats is Business as Usual in Sci-Docs You dream of a unique opening shot for your documentary—say, an elephant giving birth in a safari park. Initially it sounds great, but then reality Read more
September 1, 2001 Deep Sea Filming: The Perils and Pearls of Making Underwater IMAX Docs If someone were to hold a competition to create the most difficult motion picture format for capturing wildlife behavior, it is hard to imagine a Read more