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 | | TELEVISION | | TV Coverage of the Kennedy Assassination | | Maybe you've heard the story about CBS not being able to go live with Walter Cronkite as he read the news flash about the JFK shooting. It was done as a voiceover--a "bulletin" slide. Following the assassination, a standing order was enacted at the network that mandated a hot camera to be available 24/7 in the CBS network newsroom. | | Read More» | | |
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 | | PRODUCTION/POST/SOUND | | Bird's-Eye View: Penguin "Spy Cams" Capture Colony Activities | | John Downer Productions deployed 50 spy-cams in various penguin configurations to shoot 1,000 hours of intimate behavior for "Penguins: Waddle All the Way," a two-hour Discovery Channel/BBC documentary that premieres on November 23. These full-size "penguin-cams" walk, get back up when knocked over, have cameras in their eyes and can even lay their own "egg-cams." | | Read More» | | |
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 | | PROGRAMMING | | The Care and Feeding of "Doctor Who" and Its Fans | | "We cultivate the fandom and we encourage it in a way that's kind of authentic and organic and not the way a corporation would do it," Herb Scannell, president of BBC Worldwide America, says, considering the avid audience of the BBC's star science-fiction franchise that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this coming Saturday. | | Read More» | | |
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 | | INSPIRED BY NAB SHOW | | Sprockit Start-up Update: Collective[i] Checks In | | Collective[i] was founded by entrepreneurs who experienced the proliferation of raw data and the pain of converting it into usable insights. Their view was that companies were no longer competing on product, but intelligence, and that the former should be driven by the latter. | | Read More» | | |
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 | | LIVE/PUBLIC SPACES | | The Development and Implementation of LAX's "Airport Art" | | Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) and the companies it worked with--including MRA International and Sardi Design, and content creator Moment Factory--wanted to create a new role for environmental media. "Some people have called this 'mediature,'" says Bryan Hinckley, account manager at Electrosonic, the project's systems integrator. "The architecture is coming alive, and it's about creating a space and the experience for travelers." | | Read More» | | |
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 | | PRODUCTION/POST/SOUND | | Station to Station: Sleeping Car, Dining Car, Studio Car | | Station to Station, a not-for-profit public art project made possible by Levi's, recently crossed the country from sea to sea for a series of concerts and multimedia events featuring musicians, artists and cultural icons. Described by organizer and artist Doug Aitkin as "a nomadic happening," Station to Station—as suggested by the title—traveled by rail from New York to the Bay Area, stopping at nine cities, towns and remote locations along the way | | Read More» | | |
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