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Clairmont Camera
is hiring two

VideoGram

perfectionist Lens
Technicians
We need two people (one senior,
slightly less senior) to repair
our professional
motion-picture zoom and prime
one

and maintain

by Mike Maginot

rental lenses. Excellent pay,
based on experience. Profit-

The Making of a Legend:
Gone With the Wind
Produced by L. Jeffrey Selznick.
Directed by David Hinton.

sharing, medical benefits.
We

use a

Zeiss MTF

machine,

Richter collimators, a Zimmer¬

Photographed by Glenn Roland.

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Stop bench and a Century
projector (in its own
darkroom) to keep our lenses like
man

(MGM/UA Home Video)

Precision

David 0. Selznick made many

new or

better than new.

great movies, but only one legend. The pre¬
release publicity for Gone With the Wind
caused such a sensation that even if it
hadn't fulfilled expectations, it would have
become a legend - but of a different kind.

with Tad Savinar, then as this movie with
Oliver Stone.

The Making of a Legend, a

docu¬
mentary which chronicles the production
and exhibition of the film, was written by
David Thomson and is narrated by Christo¬
pher Plummer. The story is rich in detail, and
accurate
many of those personally in¬
volved in the making of GWTW have
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contributed.
Past ASC president Harry Wolf,
a camera assistant on the film, recalls the

"burning of Atlanta," and Arthur Arling, ASC,
operated one of the 3-strip Technicolor

who

cameras,

describes the

use

of

a

borrowed

construction crane to capture the famous
shot of Scarlett passing through a sea of
dead and wounded soldiers.
Glenn Roland's fine cinematog¬

raphy is mixed with archival material and
from the film. Roland's interviews
and recreations blend well with the work of
Lee Garmes, ASC, Ernest Haller, ASC, and
scenes

Ray Rennahan, ASC, whose combined pho¬
tographic skills helped to make GWTW a
legend.
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Talk Radio
Produced by Edward R. Pressman
and A. Kitman Ho.
Directed by Oliver Stone.

Photographed by Robert Richardson.
(MCA Home Video)
Eric

Bogosian's role as radio talk
Barry Champlain fits him like a
glove. It should - he wrote it, first as a play
show host

We're perfectionists here, so you
have to enj oy working to that high
standard. Please mail a resume
and salary history to Clairmont

Talk radio is
man, a

microphone, and

a

a

Camera, Personnel Dept., 4040
Vineland, Studio City, California
91604. No phone calls, please.

static

subject: a
bunch of disem¬

bodied voices, but Talk Radio is a movie that
moves. Robert Richardson's photography is

sharp, colorful, and when
spin, dazzling.
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begin to

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IMOVING?

Marie Galante
Produced by Winfield Sheehan.
Directed by Henry King.

Photographed by John Seitz, ASC.

PLEASE NOTIFY US

(J&J Video)

6 WEEKS IN ADVANCE

Intrigue and espionage at the
Panama Canal. Spencer Tracy stars in this
well-made programerfrom 1934. John Seitz,
ASC has a soft spot for torch singer Helen

Morgan and ingenue Ketti Gallian, who
plays the title role. He manages to visually
suggest a sexuality that tantalizes the view¬
er from between the plot lines.
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Tanner '88
Produced by Scott Bushnell.
Directed by Robert Altman.

Hollywood, Ca.
90028

Photographed by Jean Lepine.
(HBO Home Video)
An open

ended collection of
episodes of Tanner 88, a cable mini¬
series written by Garry Trudeau, the creator
of Doonesbury and Rap Master Ronnie.
Michael Murphy stars as Jack
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Tanner,

a

dark horse Democratic candidate

for President. Pamela Reed is his resourceful

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