James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever. 12 years after Titanic James Cameron is betting he can change forever the way you watch movies Photo: Art Streiber Inside the 3-D World of Avatar In 1977, a 22-year-old truck driver named James Cameron went to see Star Wars with a pal.
His friend enjoyed the movie; Cameron walked out of the theater ready to punch something. He was a college dropout and spent his days delivering school lunches in Southern California’s Orange County. But in his free time, he painted tiny models and wrote science fiction — stories set in galaxies far, far away. It got him so angry he bought himself some cheap movie equipment and started trying to figure out how Lucas had done it.
He quickly realized that he was going to need some money, so he persuaded a group of local dentists to invest $20,000 in what he billed as his version of Star Wars. The plan was to use the clip to get a studio to back a full-length feature film. The effort did yield something worthwhile: a job with B-movie king Roger Corman. DIY Steadicam, Glidecam. This article isn't intended as a complete building guide...I really just wanted to chronicle some of the unique aspects of the stabilizer I put together.
If you decide to copy what I've done here, I just ask that you give a little credit to 'YB2Normal' and send them over to my site to check out my other work. To be clear however, I take no credit for the physics behind why this works, or even the overall design. Really I only consider three aspects of the design original... the PVC gimbal, the use of all-thread for the main tube, and the wooden camera x-y plate. Putting together my own steadicam represented some unique challenges... I had seen many references to the '$14 Steadicam' on the internet, and I have to applaud the grace with which Johnny has dealt with the know-it-alls who feel compelled to point out the limitations of the design... read his FAQ and you'll get a small sense of his patience and sense of humor. Drive-Ins Are Back, but It’s a Secret - Wheels Blog.
MobMov.orgMobMov held its first drive-in of the season on San Francisco’s Treasure Island last weekend.
The drive-in-movie theater celebrated its 75th anniversary last year. As the story goes, Richard Hollingshead Jr. experimented with the format in 1933 by showing movies in his driveway in Riverton, N.J. He hung a bed sheet between two trees and placed a Kodak film projector on the roof of his car. After a rise in popularity through the 1950s, interest in the drive-in theater steadily waned (there aren’t any left in the New York metropolitan area). But over the last few years a new style of drive-in has cropped up, aided in part by the increased use (and the drop in price) of digital projectors, and it’s not too different from Hollingshead’s early experiments. They’re called “guerilla drive-ins,” or mobile movies, because there is no permanent theater. MobMov.orgA MobMov screening from 2007. He started MobMov in 2005 while a student at University of California, Berkeley. Watch The End of America - SnagFilms.