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Television
Takes
a
Cinematography
Quantum Leap
by David Heuring
Quantum Leap is a cinema¬
tographer's dream - and night¬
mare. Every week, a new situation
arises, in
a new
time period,
bringing with it new sets, styles,
opportunities and demands on
creativity and problem solving.
The story: Sometime in the near
future, an experiment in time travel
goes awry, leaving one of the sci¬
entists -played by Scott Bakula -
stuck drifting through the past. The
other scientist
played by Dean
Stockwell
has managed to rig a
way of helping his partner out of
the various jams he finds himself in.
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through time, but his holographic
image can. The result is a television
production that can never resort to
the status quo - there isn't one.
Before entering the epi¬
sodic television realm and finding
his niche on Quantum Leap, Michael
Watkins, ASC made
career's
feelings. These were extraordinary
spots - I worked on Boeing and
Schlitz, and Coca-Cola and Olym¬
pia Beer, Cadillac and United Air¬
lines. They were wonderful cam¬
paigns, and I learned a lot.
worth of
high end television com¬
mercials, at first as a grip, then later
as an operator and finally a director
of photography. "Lee Lacy and
Dick Snider were incredibly
popular at the time for commer¬
cials," he says, "and they started
my career
The trick: He himself cannot travel
were
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What they taught me was not so
much technical but an endurance of
very
in commercials. They
advanced for that time.
"What
we
do isn't brain
surgery, but it takes a certain com¬
mand of visual grammar to do it
right. I was very fortunate to work
some
incredibly creative and
unselfish people."
with
Watkins
graphed
a
had
photo¬
couple of features
(Fighting Mad, The Glitterdome) and
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