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Jean-Marie Lavalou, the Frenchman who received two awards from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences for co-creating the Louma Crane, the first remote-controlled camera system used in the motion picture industry, has died. He was 76.
Lavalou died July 15 in Paris, his company, Loumasystems, announced.
Born on March 9, 1946, in Bourg Saint Leonard, Normandie, France, Lavalou graduated in 1968 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière film school in Paris before entering national service.
He met Alain Masseron in the film department of the French Navy, and they created sweeping, never-before-seen shots while making a film inside a submarine by attaching a camera to the end of a wooden pole and moving through the narrow vessel.
The inventors brought their device to Paris camera rental house SamAlga Cinema, where chief engineer Albert Vigier introduced them to David Samuelson of Samuelson Film Service in London.
Jean-Marie Lavalou, the Frenchman who received two awards from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences for co-creating the Louma Crane, the first remote-controlled camera system used in the motion picture industry, has died. He was 76.
Lavalou died July 15 in Paris, his company, Loumasystems, announced.
Born on March 9, 1946, in Bourg Saint Leonard, Normandie, France, Lavalou graduated in 1968 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière film school in Paris before entering national service.
He met Alain Masseron in the film department of the French Navy, and they created sweeping, never-before-seen shots while making a film inside a submarine by attaching a camera to the end of a wooden pole and moving through the narrow vessel.
The inventors brought their device to Paris camera rental house SamAlga Cinema, where chief engineer Albert Vigier introduced them to David Samuelson of Samuelson Film Service in London.
- 7/26/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Scarlett Johansson will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards. Johansson's stint as Sci-Tech Oscar host follows in the wake of such illustrious silver-screen "It" girls as Jennifer Garner, Kate Hudson and Charlize Theron, who have each risen to the challenge of repeating back arcane technical specifications from a teleprompter. The creators of two camera crane systems will receive Oscar statuettes from Johansson, among the 15 awards presented at the gala black-tie dinner. Horst Burbulla will receive an Oscar for the creation and development of the Technocrane telescoping camera crane, which has redefined camera crane technology. Oscar statuettes also will be presented to Jean-Marie Lavalou, Alain Masseron and David Samuelson for engineering and developing the Louma Camera Crane and remote system for motion picture production.
- 1/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The long arm of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has reached out to the creators of two camera crane systems. At the Academy's annual Scientific and Technical Awards dinner an Academy Award of Merit, recognized with an Oscar statuette, will be presented to Horst Burbulla for the invention and continuing development of the Technocrane telescoping camera crane. Jean-Marie Lavalou, Alain Masseron and David Samuelson will receive the same for the engineering and development of the Louma Camera Crane and remote system for motion picture production. These Sci-Tech Oscar winners, Gordon E. Sawyer Award honoree Takuo Miyagishima and special Academy commendation recipient Arthur Widmer will be among the 15 achievements honored Feb. 12.
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