Producer Rebecca O'Brien says Jimmy's Hall could be last feature film made in traditional way, 'shot on film, edited on film'
• Ken Loach puts out appeal for rare analogue editing tape
Help can sometimes be found in the most unlikely places. Ken Loach, the most indefatigable of old-school, social-conscience film directors, has had his plea for vital film-making supplies answered by the animation house Pixar, some 5,300 miles away just outside San Francisco.
What's all the more remarkable is that Pixar, the cutting-edge studio, which has revolutionised animation through the use of computers and digital technology, has supplied the British film-maker with hard-to-find, fast-disappearing equipment for traditional film editing, done the old fashioned way with celluloid and adhesive tape.
Loach, 77, is currently working on Jimmy's Hall, an Irish-set drama about a communist who returns to the country of his birth in the 1930s to reopen the dance hall he once ran.
• Ken Loach puts out appeal for rare analogue editing tape
Help can sometimes be found in the most unlikely places. Ken Loach, the most indefatigable of old-school, social-conscience film directors, has had his plea for vital film-making supplies answered by the animation house Pixar, some 5,300 miles away just outside San Francisco.
What's all the more remarkable is that Pixar, the cutting-edge studio, which has revolutionised animation through the use of computers and digital technology, has supplied the British film-maker with hard-to-find, fast-disappearing equipment for traditional film editing, done the old fashioned way with celluloid and adhesive tape.
Loach, 77, is currently working on Jimmy's Hall, an Irish-set drama about a communist who returns to the country of his birth in the 1930s to reopen the dance hall he once ran.
- 10/30/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Animation studio behind Toy Story and Monsters University answers appeal from veteran director for editing supplies.
Pixar, the Disney-owned animation studio best known for its cutting edge digital filmmaking, has answered an appeal from British director Ken Loach for “old school” editing supplies.
Loach put a call out through ScreenDaily last week to find a batch of film numbering tape, essential to help finish editing his next and possibly last narrative feature, Jimmy’s Hall.
The tape is needed to identify the sound and picture when cutting physical film stock and since Loach is likely the last feature director to have resisted the move to digital, supplies were due to run out at the end of this week.
After the story was published, Steve Bloom, an editor at Pixar in California jumped at the chance to help. Apparently, each editor at the animation studio, famous for films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and [link...
Pixar, the Disney-owned animation studio best known for its cutting edge digital filmmaking, has answered an appeal from British director Ken Loach for “old school” editing supplies.
Loach put a call out through ScreenDaily last week to find a batch of film numbering tape, essential to help finish editing his next and possibly last narrative feature, Jimmy’s Hall.
The tape is needed to identify the sound and picture when cutting physical film stock and since Loach is likely the last feature director to have resisted the move to digital, supplies were due to run out at the end of this week.
After the story was published, Steve Bloom, an editor at Pixar in California jumped at the chance to help. Apparently, each editor at the animation studio, famous for films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and [link...
- 10/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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