Month: April 2021

  • Scanned newspaper clipping: the headline "Uptown's Dream Screen — A Cinema's Well-Rounded Presentation," from The Washington Post, January 29, 1995, with a photo of projectionist Dave "Mungo" Grau surveying the Uptown's curved screen. The full text is transcribed in this post.

    Uptown’s Dream Screen

    6 min flicks, geek

    I used to live near DC and went to the Uptown theatre there a lot (sadly, now closed, due to the pandemic). I just came across this clipping I saved while sorting and tossing old papers. It’s from Sunday, January 29, 1995, in The Washington Post, talking about how their old vertical-strip Cinerama screen […]

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  • Sergey Eisenstein looks at a strip of motion picture film

    An East-coast Editor in Los Angeles’ Court

    An Editor in LA

    I was really trying to make that Connecticut Yankee reference work, but it just wasn’t happening.

    As I write this, it’s one year to the day that I was laid off from my job as the in-house video producer/editor at The Omni Group, a small software company in Seattle, WA. The pandemic happened, my wife […]

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