May 1, 2001 Format Face-Off: Film vs. Digital Video Like most filmmakers, Thomas Repp, BVK, has heard the rhetoric comparing the pros and cons of originating on film and the new HD 24P video system. In Read more
May 1, 2001 Still Life: Motion Control Puts Action into Photograph For some documentary filmmakers, the words “motion control” conjure up vague images. A more sophisticated way of shooting stills, perhaps; something Read more
April 1, 2000 Wildlife Documentarian Wolfgang Bayer Prepares His 'Last Film and Testament' After some 35 years of filming exotic wildlife in remote corners of planet Earth, Wolfgang Bayer has turned the camera on himself. He is producing Read more
March 1, 2000 Why Documenting the Friars Club on Videotape Proved to Be No Joke For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by the history of The Friars Club—the legendary showbiz haven where some of the biggest icons of Read more
January 1, 1997 Use and Abuse of Home Movies in Documentaries Changes in the media and the culture have brought about greater use of home movies in documentary today. We witness: a rise in appreciation of Read more
December 1, 1991 Form and Dysfunction: Fisher-Price and the Cult of the Pixel Some of the most significant revolutions in the history of film and video have been sparked by the appearance of small and inexpensive camera—new Read more
April 1, 1991 8mm Video Goes to War For professional videographers who have followed the rapid evolution of the 8mm format from its humble home-camcorder beginnings, it came as no Read more
April 1, 1991 Shooting from the Hip: An Interview with Cinematographer Maryse Alberti Almost every review I've seen of Stephanie Black's exceptionally moving 70- minute film concerning the labor abuses suffered by Jamaican men brought Read more
December 1, 1990 Taking 16mm into the '90s If 16mm film production once seemed threatened to near extinction by small format video (and in news gathering, at least, this is indeed a fait Read more
July 1, 1990 New Cameras, Great and Small The theory of documentary trickle-down holds that high technology may eventually dribble into the awaiting mouths of the hungry, but don't hold your Read more