Recent on the market are Carl Zeiss/Arriflex Ultra Primes, 12 high-performance lenses with focal lengths of 10mm to 135mm, covering the full Super 35 format. Zeiss and Arri have worked together on these relatively small and light lenses, optimized for close-focus,…

The means of production might have been different had shooting taken place during Toronto Mega-Storm ’99, but with dry conditions in early winter when the spots were put together, Toronto’s Spin Productions and Flashcut Editing turned to still photos and loads…

*Sony takes Optix into HD realm…

Four of the partners behind Toronto shops Cutting Edge and Post Producers Digital have joined forces to create an expanded new nonlinear video post entity under the ppd banner….

November 1962: Abraham Zapruder purchases a Model 414 PD Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Camera. One year later, on Nov. 22, he loads it with Kodachrome II Safety Film and rushes to Dealey Plaza where he captures the assassination of…

Last year, the WPA Film Library in Orland Park, Illinois, acquired exclusive distribution rights to a newly discovered collection of film footage about the assassination of President Kennedy, shot by ktvt-tv (cbs’ Dallas affiliate) news cameraman Roy Cooper. Although none of…

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. took cbs to court last year to try and prevent them from using King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in a video on the civil rights movement….

The Federation of Commercial Audio Visual Libraries is an international, non-profit trade association, representing commercial film/audiovisual libraries, professional film researchers, producers and affiliated services in the industry….

When in the market for stock footage, most producers go straight to the larger shops. But when looking for a specific shot of the first Canadian settlers, a wwii fighter plane or a giant octopus feeding its young, there are a…

While the new $15-million Alberta Film Development Program will provide a financial boost for indigenous dramatic production in the province, producers say the grant is difficult for documentary projects and coproductions to access because of the eligibility criteria which requires principal…

Heartland Motion Pictures has cracked the u.s. market, landing a development deal with cbs to produce a $10-million tv movie. Minds Eye Pictures has opened a Santa Monica office and will team up with l.a.-based Legend Entertainment on feature film projects….

Playback is marking the return of Prairie Scene with this Special Report on Production in the Prairie Provinces and B.C. Following its relaunch, Prairie Scene will appear every second issue in the Film and Television section of Playback….