American Cinematographer - July 1991 - 89

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Curtis Clark, the newest active member of
the ASC, is truly an international artist. Al¬

though he was born in Oak Ridge, Tennes¬
see, Curtis graduated from the London Film
School in 1969 and worked for the next ten

free lance cameraman in En¬
gland. During that time he worked on a wide
variety of television documentaries and
short fiction subjects.
"I became actively involved with
the emergence of Super 16 in Britain in the
early 1980s," Clark recalls, "and was in¬
strumental in helping Kay Laboratories (now
Metrocolor London) set up the first British
full service, Super 16 negative developing
and printing process through to 35mm blow
up and release printing. Then I photo¬
graphed the first feature film to benefit from
the new British Super 16 facility: The
Draughtsman's Contract." The picture was
years as a

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made in 1982 for the British Film Institute/
Channel 4 television, but was released

theatrically in 35mm in the United States
and other countries.
This eloquent

period film was
by French director Louis Malle, who
selected Curtis to photograph Alamo Bay,

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in Texas. Since then, Curtis notes, he has
"concentrated primarily on photographing
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work, the most recent being Thy Kingdom
Come, Thy Will Be Done, the Central (Brit¬
ish) TV/PBS production about Christian
Fundamentalism in the U. S." This was an
IDA Award winner for Best Documentary in
1988. "In 1987 I started photographing TV

commercials, both here and in Britain, in
addition to feature films. This combination

the occasional docu¬

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mentary ever-present."
Clark's other British TV features

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Nothing But the Truth and Nellie's
Version. Among his American-made TV and

include

theatrical features

are

The Benniker Gang,

Extremities, Follow That Bird, Made in the
U. S. A., Thirteen at Dinner, Dead Man's

Folly, DominickandEugene, Triumph ofthe
Spirit and Talent for the Game.
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May 20 ASC dinner meeting
program gave members an advance look at
a new technology that will have an enor¬

mous

impact

on

cinematography. Brad

Hunt, director of advanced technology

products for Eastman Kodak Company,
discussed

an

electronic intermediate sys¬

being developed for motion picture film.
With this sophisticated imaging
system, film will be scanned into digital
format for image manipulation applications,
making it possible to make realistic com¬
posites in days instead of weeks. It also will
make it easy to eliminate scratches and
tem

other undesirable artifacts and make pos¬
sible subtle adjustments in color and con¬
trast. A film recorder will be used to transfer

digital pictures onto a fine grain interme¬
diate stock. Image quality will be compa¬
rable to the dailies seen today.
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The ASC is set to tee off at

Camarillo Springs Golf Course on Sunday,
June 23 at 9:37 a.m. This will mark the

beginning of the Eighth Annual Summer
Golf Classic. Active members, associate
members and guests are eligible to par¬

ticipate. The

wrap party at
house is slated for July 8.

the ASC Club¬

Seventy-two golfers teed off in
last year's tournament. Richard Glouner,
ASC took top honors for Low Gross, Low Net
and the Governor's Perpetual Trophy. Pre¬
vious winner Gene Polito, ASC and Richard
L. Rawlings, ASC secretary, tied for second

place. The big surprise was the hole-in-one
scored by associate member Fred Scobey
on the par-3 18th hole. There were plenty
of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, trophies, prizes,
and a big buffet dinner at the wrap party
two weeks later.
The Callaway Handicap System
is used to determine net scores, so both low
handicappers and high scorers are in for the
fun. The course is cooled by sea breezes and
should anyone fail to heed a "fore!" -
is only a 20-minute drive from the Motion
Picture Country House and Hospital.

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♦ ♦♦

Linwood Dunn, ASC, was a guest
of Leonard Maltin on Entertainment To¬

night May 12. Dunn discussed his partici¬
pation in the making of Citizen Kane 50
years ago.
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