Scratch FX Film Garbage clips

In 1988 we didn’t have still stores to grab reference frames. We used to record a section of film to 1” videotape manually, I would then cue this for the colorist and he would use a vision switcher to compare the live film with the tape. Directors often asked me to put the VTR into…

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Grading Michael Jackson

My first real grading job was on the Michael Jackson Bad tour in 1988, directed by Patrick Kelly. I was an assistant telecine operator at Visions, located in Soho, London. As an assistant I laced the film, loaded the film cleaner and pressed REC on the 1” VTR. I spent the time in between these…

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