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main

thing

was to make the matte
put in all those frames.
Many had to be repositioned, so

and then

we'd have to remember that

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made u5/ioooths to the left, and that
that when we'd burn that
frame in later it would be
necessary

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move

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it lined up

so

that

with the matte."

Much of the credit for

for Television,

such

Rosco and Lee Color Media.

complex opticals belongs to
the ZAP (Zoom Aerial Image Opti¬
cal Printer) which brought Boss an
Academy Science-Technical Class

Cam-loc connectors.

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back later on and can't trust those

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what he

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and you

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living with something that's less
than as good as it can be. If he can
really trust the machine, knows
that it's stable and sharp and that it's
going to do the same thing each
time, he has the same facility that
he'd have with a pencil when mak¬
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