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global spots. The first stop was the Soviet
Union, followed by Paris, Cannes, Monte
Carlo, Venice, Rome, down the Amalfi Coast
Positano, Aspen, Colorado, New York,

to

Los

Angeles, Utah, the Caribbean, Costa

Rica and Brazil.

lens looks through an optically flat anti-re¬
flection coated glass window which tracks
with the lens during pans/tilts.
For more information: CRM

Group, 270 East Drive A, Melbourne, Florida
32904, Ph.(407)727-1428.

The team's small scale enabled
them to cut out the waste

common

Toon

to com-

plicated productions. "Usually when
Heineken shows up, there are dollar signs
in people's eyes," says Marinus
Weststrate, Heineken's advertising man¬
ager for the western hemisphere. "But we
were able to effectively keep costs down in
all countries, especially ones with small
budgets. I estimate that the campaign could
not be duplicated for less than four times
the actual production budget, which is per¬
haps the most creative aspect of all."
For information: Upmarket/

Money

Animator Walter Lantz, creator
of

Woody Woodpecker and other classic

cartoons, has developed through his Walter
Lantz Foundation a prize and a scholarship
fund for CalArts students. The Walter Lantz

Scholarship is a full scholarship which will
be awarded to a student each year in the
character animation program. The first
scholarship will be presented this fall. The
Walter and Gracie Lantz Animation Prize is
a

grant given near the end of each school

lllustra Films, 640 Ocean Drive, Miami

year to an outstanding student to
that student to complete his or her

Beach, FL 33139, (305) 531 -7710, fax (305)

tion film

project in full color.

531-7418.

For information: CalArts, (818)
367-5507

Super Bowl Aerials
Earlier this year, the people who
bring you the Super Bowl made bold moves
to maintain the event's position as the
grandaddy of hype, including appearances
by Clint Black and Michael Jackson. The
tactics apparently paid off - Super Bowl
XXVII was reported to be the highest-rated
television program in history. More than
thirty-five television cameras were trained
on

the action. Several of the

shots

came

more

dramatic

courtesy of Anheuser-Busch's

Airship Bud One and CRM Group's Wescam
operator George Schaafsma.
Aerial shots

are

not new to the

Super Bowl, of course, but this year's half¬
time festivities involved scripted shots from
the blimp for the first time. As a result,
Schaafsma and the Bud One crew took part
in a day of rehearsal prior to game day. The
trick was to have the ship and camera timed
and positioned to get the proper pullback
zoom as Jackson's extravaganza unfolded.
On the big day, with millions of viewers
the shots without

a

stadium
and surrounding Pasadena foothills were
also telecast.
The Wescam system is the origi¬
nal gyro-stabilized camera mount. The rig
boasts all-digital electronics and offers ul¬
timate image stability. The familiar "white

(805) 253-7832.

Tribeca

Editing Service
Film

Center

and

Henninger Video, Inc. have formed Tribeca
Henninger Editing Tools (T.H.E. Tools) to
provide random-access editing to the fea¬
ture film marketplace. Based at the Tribeca
Film Center in New York City, the center
offers random-access editing systems both
in-house in an editing suite and on location.
It offers rental equipment and a consulting
service for producers, directors, and editors
regarding which system is most appropri¬
ate to a project, how to implement the sys¬
tem, and answers to ongoing technical
questions and problems. T.H.E. Tools will
either train an existing editing team or pro¬
vide trained assistants who can work with
film editors on location.
For information: The Tribeca Film

Center, 375 Greenwich St., New York, NY
10013, (212) 941 -4072, fax (212) 941 -3997.

Cyberware Visits
Jurassic Park

crew pulled off
hitch. Of course, vari¬

live aerial shots of the game,

or

Tribeca

watching, the experienced
ous

enable
anima¬

ogy was

Cyberware's digitizing technol¬
recently used to help bring realis¬

tic dinosaurs to the

screen

in Jurassic Park,

saving the film's creators an estimated six
months of production time. The company,
whose work has also been used in Batman

ball" wind shroud that houses the camera
is mounted outside the cabin of the ship and

Returns, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and
Death Becomes Her, manufactures a vari¬
ety of user-friendly hardware and software
products for rapid 3-D color scanning which

controlled from within

are

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by the operator. The

being used by doctors, engineers,

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