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VIRTUAL PRODUCTION: BROADCAST INSPIRES CINEMA
enabling production to resume with minimal delay.
Nicholson's ingenuity earned him Kline's friendship, and decades
later, Kline joined ASC members Francis Kenny, Richard Crudo and Victor
J. Kemper in sponsoring Nicholson for Society membership.
Special Lighting Effects
Nicholson's work on Star Trek established him as a purveyor of special
lighting effects, and he began servicing features, television and commercials,
first as Spectrum Productions, then as Xenon Productions. In
1989, he founded Stargate Studios, which has grown into a fully integrated
visual-effects and virtual-production facility in South Pasadena,
with satellites around the world.
With Stargate, Nicholson won a Primetime Emmy for the " BattleFrom
top: Leading an ASC Master Class session
in 2014; conducting tests for a science-fiction
feature project in 2021.
ground " episode of Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen
King and received additional Emmy nominations for episodes of
The Walking Dead, Grey's Anatomy and Pan Am, among other projects.
Recently, he served as virtual-production supervisor on such series as
Our Flag Means Death and Your Honor, as well as Noah Baumbach's feature
White Noise. Stargate's virtual-reality expertise has led Nicholson to
become an IATSE spokesperson for hybrid cinema tools, exploring new
paradigms for on-set imaging.
" I look at the production business as the
most collaborative and educational art
in the world, but it's like going down the
rapids on a very large river in a kayak -
you don't know which way the current is
going to take you. So, you take risks and
find solutions. "
52 / APRIL 2023
Max Headroom
Nicholson's career has encompassed directing commercials for J. Walter
Thompson; designing kinetic-lighting effects for music videos for
Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Scorpions and Cher; and feature-film work that
includes Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (AC Oct. '82) and Ghostbusters II.
A friendship with cinematographer and visual-effects supervisor
Peter Anderson, ASC led Nicholson to establish a studio on Hollywood
Boulevard, where Xenon Productions constructed a futuristic miniature
cityscape that incorporated repurposed motion-control equipment for
the ABC television series Max Headroom. " It was a 70-foot miniature with
20 miles of fiber optics laced through hundreds of miniature buildings.
We built a motion-control gantry to fly a camera through, and each week
we designed different shots. We left it up for the entire series, and every
TOP PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASC ARCHIVE. BOTTOM PHOTO
COURTESY OF SAM NICHOLSON, ASC.

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