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On this day in history in 1955 – the first news broadcast in the UK with a female news reader is aired.
The launch of ITV brought with it a rush of energy and a newer, less stuffy way of approaching the audience than the BBC had tended to offer. ITN, the news production company for ITV, changed things, with three personalities chosen to front the news on screen, larger than life barrister and broadcaster Robin Day at 7pm, Olympic athlete Christopher Chataway at 10pm, and very innovatively for the time a woman, the 35-year-old Barbara Mandell, on the noon bulletin.
Allada Barbara Grenville-Wells was born on the 15th July 1920 in London. She grew up in South Africa after her family relocated to that country in 1924. Her father was the deputy editor of South Africa's Rand Daily Mail and Mandell followed him into journalism, working for the same newspaper. She later worked for the South African Broadcasting Company as a radio news editor, but subsequently returned to the United Kingdom in the early 1950s after a brief stay in the United States. After working for the BBC's Television Newsreel as a script editor she joined ITV upon its launch.
For the first time news bulletins were written and read by onscreen presenters, as opposed to the BBC's then preferred method of showing news footage with a voiceover. Mandell was selected from 150 candidates. Mandell was one of two female reporters to work for ITN in its early days (the other being Lynne Reid Banks), and helped to pioneer the use of so-called Vox pop reports in the United Kingdom, whereby one conducts interviews with ordinary members of the public in the street.
Although Mandell was the UK's first regular female television news presenter, her tenure lasted only a few months. By January 1956 ITV was experiencing financial difficulties, and the budget for its news strand was reduced, meaning the Midday News was dropped. However, Mandell continued to be seen on screen throughout the 1950s, usually fronting weekend news bulletins, and she was a regular reporter. Then later in her career she returned to scriptwriting, and ended her career as Chief Copyeditor of the weekday early evening News at 5.45 bulletin before retiring in 1980. Following her retirement she moved to Luxembourg with her partner where she wrote travel books. She later returned to England and died in Holsworthy, Devon in 1998.
Walter Gray was an Arbroathian who collected Arbroath sayings and expressions all his life, and in 1992 published many of them in a book, Parliamo Aberbrothock. Walter was cartoon editor of the Weekly News in Dundee, and a man from whom laughter was never far away. Ian 'Smokie' Gray, stalwart of the Beano scriptwriting staff, was his son. (Photograph - Colin Wight)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
阮繼志Sir suddenly comes up with a group photo idea, there's a mix of different people in our Scriptwriting Class (2005-06) every Thursday 7-10pm, lots of fun. From Left: 東耀, ?, 瑜, Shirley, Marco, Christine, Ken, Anna, Kenneth, ?, ?, Hareddy, Silver, Steve, 阮Sir, Sam, Jaxx, SioKeng, Lewis, Eva, Kin, Joey, Philip, Stella, Kok, Suzanne, Sixtus, George, Rock. & 子楓 behind the camera. 10:04pm@27April,2006
P.S. 剛, 龍, 鋒, 熙, JoeySy & Queenie are absent...
Asmelash works in the camp as a drama teacher for the Jesuit Refugee Service. He teaches young refugees drama, film production, scriptwriting and dance. The classes help manage the stress and trauma of life as a refugee, he says, for both him and his pupils. Asmelash is co-writing a book on drama and dance classes as therapy.
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Yugoslavian postcard by ZK, no. 3925.
Tall and handsome Rory Calhoun (1922-1999) was an American film and TV actor who also worked as a screenwriter, producer and author. He appeared in more than 80 films and more than a thousand episodes of various TV shows. His films include How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), River of No Return (1954), and The Spoilers (1955).
Rory Calhoun was born Francis Timothy McCown in 1922 in Los Angeles, California. His father was James 'Floyd' McCown, a professional gambler, and his mother was Elizabeth Cuthbert. When he was nine months old his father died. After his mother remarried he occasionally used the last name of his stepfather, Durgin. His young criminal career was rather extensive. A high school dropout, he stole a revolver at age 13, which landed him in the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory at Ione, CA. He escaped while in the adjustment centre (jail within the jail). He left home at 17 to escape beatings from his stepfather and began hot-wiring cars. After robbing several jewellery stores, he stole a car and drove it across state lines. This offence sent him to the federal penitentiary in Springfield, MO, for three years. When he finished his sentence he was incarcerated in San Quentin State Penitentiary in California on other charges and remained there until he was paroled just before his 21st birthday. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. His life changed when a Hollywood agent, Sue Carol, auditioned him at 20th Century Fox. He was noticed by Alan Ladd, Sue's husband when Rory was riding a horse in a Los Angeles park. Impressed with Calhoun's physique, Ladd introduced him to Sue. Rory got a bit role in Something for the Boys (Lewis Seiler, 1944), with Carmen Miranda. He got his first credited role as Frank McCown in the Laurel and Hardy comedy, The Bullfighters (Malcolm St. Clair, 1945). He was signed to a contract by Henry Wilson, an agent known for a stable of young and attractive actors with unusual names like Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter. He initially christened him "Troy Donahue", then changed it to "Rory Calhoun". Wilson used the Troy Donahue name later on another up-and-coming actor. Wilson was an employee of David O. Selznick and he signed Calhoun in Selznick's company. His first public appearance was as Lana Turner's escort to the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), a Selznick production. The glamorous blonde and her handsome companion attracted the paparazzi, and photos appeared in newspapers and fan magazines. In 1945, he was sent again to prison for beating a detective. Calhoun did not appear in a film for a year before being lent to producer Sol Lesser for the thriller The Red House (Delmer Daves, 1947) with Edward G. Robinson. In the same year, he worked in two more films, Adventure Island (Sam Newfield, 1947) and That Hagen Girl (Peter Godfrey, 1947) starring Shirley Temple. He graduated to starring in Westerns such as Sand (Louis King, 1949). He first appeared in a negative role in Return of Frontiersman (Richard L. Bare, 1950), starring Gordon MacRae and Julie London.
In August 1950, Rory Calhoun signed a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox. Some of his first films for Fox were such Westerns as A Ticket to Tomahawk (Richard Sale, 1950), and Rogue River (John Rawlins, 1951). With Susan Hayward, he co-starred in the musical With a Song in My Heart (Walter Lang, 1952) and with Gene Tierney in the Western Way of a Gaucho (Jacques Tourneur, 1952). He co-starred with Marilyn Monroe in the comedy How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco, 1953) as Betty Grable's love interest and the Western River of No Return (Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco, 1954), starring Robert Mitchum. Both films were big hits. Calhoun then left Fox. He starred in such Westerns as The Yellow Tomahawk (Lesley Selander, 1954), A Bullet is Waiting (John Farrow, 1954) and The Spoilers (Jesse Hibbs, 1955) with Ann Baxter. Calhoun's conviction history became public when his mugshot appeared on the May 1955 cover of Confidential magazine. According to one source, his agent, Henry Willson, disclosed information about Calhoun's years in prison to Confidential in exchange for the tabloid not printing an exposé about the secret homosexual life of Rock Hudson, another Willson client. According to another source, blackmailers threatened to make his prison record public, so instead, Calhoun revealed it himself. However, the disclosure had no negative effect on Calhoun's career and only served to solidify his 'bad boy' image. He starred in such Westerns as Raw Edge (John Sherwood, 1956), The Hired Gun (Ray Nazzaro, 1957) and Ride Out of Revenge (1958). In 1957, Rory and his partner Victor Orsatti started a film production company called 'Rorvic'. He helped produce films like the Film Noir Flight to Hong Kong (Joseph M. Newman, 1956), and the Westerns The Hired Gun (Ray Nazzaro, 1957), Domino Kid (Ray Nazzaro, 1957), and Apache Territory (Ray Nazzaro, 1958). In 1959, he made his television debut in The Texan (1959-1960). Around this time, Rory also started scriptwriting. He also appeared in an episode of the CBS show December Bride (1959). The episode was called 'Rory Calhoun the Texan'.
In the early 1960s, he starred in the stock car racing film Thunder in Carolina (Paul Helmick, 1960), and the Peplum Il Colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (1961), co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. The film was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before (as the replacement director for The Last Days of Pompeii and as a secondary director for both Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis). The film was originally meant to star John Derek. However, he clashed with Sergio Leone and was replaced by Rory Calhoun. Calhoun travelled to Spain to make the film, then to Great Britain for The Treasure of Monte Cristo (Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker, 1961) in Britain, and then to Italy for L'avventura di un italiano in Cina/Marco Polo (Piero Pierotti, 1962) with Yoko Tani. He returned to the U.S. to make several films for producer A.C. Lyles, such as the war film The Young and the Brave (Francis D. Lyon, 1963) and the Western Apache Rising (R.G. Springsteen, 1965), with Corinne Calvet. He returned to Europe to make the French Eurospy film Our Men in Bagdad (Paolo Bianchini, 1966) with Roger Hanin, and the Spanish adventure film The Emerald of Artatama (José María Elorrieta, 1969). During the 1960s, he also guest-starred in several popular TV shows like Death Valley Days (1963), Bonanza (1964), Gunsmoke (1965), I Spy (1966), Gilligan's Island (1967) and Custer (1969). In the 1970s he could be seen in TV shows such as The Doris Day Show (1972), Police Story (1973), Starsky and Hutch (1975) and Fantasy Land (1978). In 1982, he appeared for five years as Judge Judson Tyler on the US soap opera Capitol and remained on the show until it ended in 1987. In the cinema, he starred in cult films like the Science-Fiction horror film Night of the Lepus (William F. Claxton, 1972) with Janet Leigh, the comedy horror film Motel Hell (Kevin Connor, 1980), the exploitation horror film Angel (Robert Vincent O'Neill, 1984), and the Science-Fiction action film Hell Comes to Frogtown (Donald G. Jackson, R. J. Kizer, 1989). He produced himself Fists of Steel (Jerry Schafer, 1991). His last film as an actor was Pure Country (Christopher Cain, 1992) in which the still handsome Calhoun played the character of 'Earnest Tucker' - a family patriarch and farmer. His last screen appearance was in the horror anthology television series Tales from the Crypt (1993). Rory Calhoun was married three times, once to his first wife and twice to his second wife. His first wife was Lita Baron (1948-1970), with whom he had three daughters, Cindy (1957), Tami (1958) and Lorri (1961). At the time of the divorce, Baron accused him of committing adultery with more than 70 women, including Betty Grable. Reportedly, Calhoun responded, "Heck, she didn't even include half of them". His second wife was journalist Sue Rhodes (1971-1979; 1982-1999) with whom he had one daughter, Rory Patricia (1971). He also had a daughter with actress Vitina Marcus, Athena Marcus Calhoun, who became "The World's Most Beautiful Showgirl" and was awarded "The Key to the City of Las Vegas" in 1987. Guy Madison was one of his closest friends. The two men often went on fishing and hunting trips. Guy and his (second) wife Sheila Connolly named him godfather to their firstborn Bridget. Rory Calhoun passed away in 1999 at the age of 76 after a ten-day hospitalisation at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. He died due to complications from emphysema and diabetes. Calhoun has two stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television.
Sources: Bill Takacs (IMDb), Celeb-true, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1881. Photo: Dear Film.
Tall and handsome Rory Calhoun (1922-1999) was an American film and TV actor who also worked as a screenwriter, producer and author. He appeared in more than 80 films and more than a thousand episodes of various TV shows. His films include How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), River of No Return (1954), and The Spoilers (1955).
Rory Calhoun was born Francis Timothy McCown in 1922 in Los Angeles, California. His father was James 'Floyd' McCown, a professional gambler, and his mother was Elizabeth Cuthbert. When he was nine months old his father died. After his mother remarried he occasionally used the last name of his stepfather, Durgin. His young criminal career was rather extensive. A high school dropout, he stole a revolver at age 13, which landed him in the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory at Ione, CA. He escaped while in the adjustment centre (jail within the jail). He left home at 17 to escape beatings from his stepfather and began hot-wiring cars. After robbing several jewellery stores, he stole a car and drove it across state lines. This offence sent him to the federal penitentiary in Springfield, MO, for three years. When he finished his sentence he was incarcerated in San Quentin State Penitentiary in California on other charges and remained there until he was paroled just before his 21st birthday. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. His life changed when a Hollywood agent, Sue Carol, auditioned him at 20th Century Fox. He was noticed by Alan Ladd, Sue's husband when Rory was riding a horse in a Los Angeles park. Impressed with Calhoun's physique, Ladd introduced him to Sue. Rory got a bit role in Something for the Boys (Lewis Seiler, 1944), with Carmen Miranda. He got his first credited role as Frank McCown in the Laurel and Hardy comedy, The Bullfighters (Malcolm St. Clair, 1945). He was signed to a contract by Henry Wilson, an agent known for a stable of young and attractive actors with unusual names like Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter. He initially christened him "Troy Donahue", then changed it to "Rory Calhoun". Wilson used the Troy Donahue name later on another up-and-coming actor. Wilson was an employee of David O. Selznick and he signed Calhoun in Selznick's company. His first public appearance was as Lana Turner's escort to the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), a Selznick production. The glamorous blonde and her handsome companion attracted the paparazzi, and photos appeared in newspapers and fan magazines. In 1945, he was sent again to prison for beating a detective. Calhoun did not appear in a film for a year before being lent to producer Sol Lesser for the thriller The Red House (Delmer Daves, 1947) with Edward G. Robinson. In the same year, he worked in two more films, Adventure Island (Sam Newfield, 1947) and That Hagen Girl (Peter Godfrey, 1947) starring Shirley Temple. He graduated to starring in Westerns such as Sand (Louis King, 1949). He first appeared in a negative role in Return of Frontiersman (Richard L. Bare, 1950), starring Gordon MacRae and Julie London.
In August 1950, Rory Calhoun signed a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox. Some of his first films for Fox were such Westerns as A Ticket to Tomahawk (Richard Sale, 1950), Rogue River (John Rawlins, 1951). With Susan Hayward, he co-starred in the musical With a Song in My Heart (Walter Lang, 1952) and with Gene Tierney in the Western Way of a Gaucho (Jacques Tourneur, 1952). He co-starred with Marilyn Monroe in the comedy How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco, 1953) as Betty Grable's love interest and the Western River of No Return (Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco, 1954), starring Robert Mitchum. Both films were big hits. Calhoun then left Fox. He starred in such Westerns as The Yellow Tomahawk (Lesley Selander, 1954), A Bullet is Waiting (John Farrow, 1954) and The Spoilers (Jesse Hibbs, 1955) with Ann Baxter. Calhoun's conviction history became public when his mugshot appeared on the May 1955 cover of Confidential magazine. According to one source, his agent, Henry Willson, disclosed information about Calhoun's years in prison to Confidential in exchange for the tabloid not printing an exposé about the secret homosexual life of Rock Hudson, another Willson client. According to another source, blackmailers threatened to make his prison record public, so instead, Calhoun revealed it himself. However, the disclosure had no negative effect on Calhoun's career and only served to solidify his 'bad boy' image. He starred in such Westerns as Raw Edge (John Sherwood, 1956), The Hired Gun (Ray Nazzaro, 1957) and Ride Out of Revenge (1958). In 1957, Rory and his partner Victor Orsatti started a film production company called 'Rorvic'. He helped produce films like the Film Noir Flight to Hong Kong (Joseph M. Newman, 1956), and the Westerns The Hired Gun (Ray Nazzaro, 1957), Domino Kid (Ray Nazzaro, 1957), and Apache Territory (Ray Nazzaro, 1958). In 1959, he made his television debut in The Texan (1959-1960). Around this time, Rory also started scriptwriting. He also appeared in an episode of the CBS show December Bride (1959). The episode was called 'Rory Calhoun the Texan'.
In the early 1960s, he starred in the stock car racing film Thunder in Carolina (Paul Helmick, 1960), and the Peplum Il Colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (1961), co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. The film was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before (as the replacement director for The Last Days of Pompeii and as a secondary director for both Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis). The film was originally meant to star John Derek. However, he clashed with Sergio Leone and was replaced by Rory Calhoun. Calhoun travelled to Spain to make the film, then to Great Britain for The Treasure of Monte Cristo (Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker, 1961) in Britain, and then to Italy for L'avventura di un italiano in Cina/Marco Polo (Piero Pierotti, 1962) with Yoko Tani. He returned to the U.S. to make several films for producer A.C. Lyles, such as the war film The Young and the Brave (Francis D. Lyon, 1963) and the Western Apache Rising (R.G. Springsteen, 1965), with Corinne Calvet. He returned to Europe to make the French Eurospy film Our Men in Bagdad (Paolo Bianchini, 1966) with Roger Hanin, and the Spanish adventure film The Emerald of Artatama (José María Elorrieta, 1969). During the 1960s, he also guest-starred in several popular TV shows like Death Valley Days (1963), Bonanza (1964), Gunsmoke (1965), I Spy (1966), Gilligan's Island (1967) and Custer (1969). In the 1970s he could be seen in TV shows such as The Doris Day Show (1972), Police Story (1973), Starsky and Hutch (1975) and Fantasy Land (1978). In 1982, he appeared for five years as Judge Judson Tyler on the US soap opera Capitol and remained on the show until it ended in 1987. In the cinema, he starred in cult films like the Science-Fiction horror film Night of the Lepus (William F. Claxton, 1972) with Janet Leigh, the comedy horror film Motel Hell (Kevin Connor, 1980), the exploitation horror film Angel (Robert Vincent O'Neill, 1984), and the Science-Fiction action film Hell Comes to Frogtown (Donald G. Jackson, R. J. Kizer, 1989). He produced himself Fists of Steel (Jerry Schafer, 1991). His last film as an actor was Pure Country (Christopher Cain, 1992) in which the still handsome Calhoun played the character of 'Earnest Tucker' - a family patriarch and farmer. His last screen appearance was in the horror anthology television series Tales from the Crypt (1993). Rory Calhoun was married three times, once to his first wife and twice to his second wife. His first wife was Lita Baron (1948-1970), with whom he had three daughters, Cindy (1957), Tami (1958) and Lorri (1961). At the time of the divorce, Baron accused him of committing adultery with more than 70 women, including Betty Grable. Reportedly, Calhoun responded, "Heck, she didn't even include half of them". His second wife was journalist Sue Rhodes (1971-1979; 1982-1999) with whom he had one daughter, Rory Patricia (1971). He also had a daughter with actress Vitina Marcus, Athena Marcus Calhoun, who became "The World's Most Beautiful Showgirl" and was awarded "The Key to the City of Las Vegas" in 1987. Guy Madison was one of his closest friends. The two men often went on fishing and hunting trips. Guy and his (second) wife Sheila Connolly named him godfather to their firstborn Bridget. Rory Calhoun passed away in 1999 at the age of 76 after a ten-day hospitalisation at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. He died due to complications from emphysema and diabetes. Calhoun has two stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television.
Sources: Bill Takacs (IMDb), Celeb-true, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Vintage Czechoslovakian postcard, Lucerna. Scene from the musical drama Nocní motýl (Frantisek Cáp, 1941), released in Germany as Nachtfalter (The Moth). The main actors were Hana Vítová, Gustav Nezval and Svatopluk Beneš.
"It tells the story of an unhappy love that drags a decent girl into the mud of a brothel. At first glance, it looks like a tear-jerking calendar story for not very demanding ladies and girls, however, it was given new dimensions thanks to sensitive scriptwriting and a sovereign directorial concept. The filmmakers emphasised above all the psychological accents of the melodramatic story in direct relation to the historical and social conditions in which the story was set. The film itself was conceived as a lavish costume spectacle, for which the visually rich period of the end of the century provided all the prerequisites (the film's designer Jan Zázvorka made perfect use of them), and it was set in a kind of geographical vacuum, although many of the realities (the glitter of officers' uniforms, the pomposity of ladies' toilets) clearly recalled the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was underlined by the central musical motif from Johan Strauss. The craft perfection of the film was emphasised by the excellent performances of especially Hana Vítová as the "fallen angel", the governess Marta (probably her best performance in front of the camera) and Adina Mandlová in the smaller but very important role of her friend, the prostitute Kiki. Among the male characters there were also famous names such as Gustav Nezval, Svatopluk Beneš, Rudolf Hrušínský and Eduard Kohout. The result was a film that proved the vitality and standard of Czech cinema in its time, even in the limited conditions of the Protectorate." (Source: www.csfd.cz/film/2080-nocni-motyl/prehled/)
Lucernafilm was a film company from Czechoslovakia, which lasted between 1912 and 1949. The Havel family played a significant role in it, especially its founder and long-time director Miloš Havel. It was revived sometime in the 1990s as a film distributor.
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
I first met Sato-san back in December at the My Japan Conference - an event supported by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese tourism agency. We were both there to talk about the influence of our work around the world.
Sato-san has written various titles which have been rather popular outside of Japan to a wider audience - even reaching those who dont usually watch anime - particularly titles like Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell SAC.
I love these tiles too which is why we are meeting. I want to create a title which stands the sands of time and not just be popular this year and then go the next like many titles out there.
Lately I've been trying to squeeze in some study on scriptwriting and how humans need stories.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26720/Sato+Dai.html
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
French poster postcard by Sonis, no. C. 1678. Image: Europacorp / TFI Films Production / Appoulai Prod. Poster for Angel-A (Luc Besson, 2005).
Luc Besson (1959) is a French film director, writer and producer associated with the 'Cinéma du Look' film movement. Eight of his 50 films are among the 100 most successful French films in the world. He made a name for himself with his first films, Le Dernier Combat (1983) and Subway (1985). He then triumphed at the French box office with Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988), which sold more than 9 million tickets and gave him an international reputation. Then followed a string of successful films: Nikita (1990), Léon (1994), Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), for which he won a César for Best Director, and Jeanne d'Arc/The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). After several failures, he returned to international success with Lucy (2014), which became the biggest successful French film worldwide. Among his other major commercial successes are three film series: Taxi (1998–2007), Taken (2008-2014), and Le Transporteur/The Transporter (2002–2008).
Luc Paul Maurice Besson was born in Paris in 1959. He was the son of two Club Méditerranée scuba diving instructors in Greece and former Yugoslavia. Luc planned to become a marine biologist. The family returned to France when he was 10. His parents divorced, and both remarried. At age 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive and finished his dream of becoming a marine biologist. He decided to go for a film career. Besson soon made his first short film and wrote the first versions of what would grow into his films Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988) and the Sci-Fi epic Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997). From 1976 to 1982, Besson did various jobs in the film industry and was an assistant to directors including Claude Faraldo and Patrick Grandperret. He directed three short films, a commissioned documentary, and several commercials. In the early 1980s, Besson met Éric Serra and asked him to compose the score for his first short film, L'Avant dernier. He subsequently had Serra compose for other films. For three years, he worked in Hollywood. Then Besson debuted with Le Dernier Combat/The Last Battle (1983), a post-apocalyptic drama with similarities to Mad Max, co-written with Pierre Jolivet. Inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), Besson filmed it in CinemaScope and black and white and without dialogue. It features Jean Reno's first prominent role. Reno later appeared in several films by Besson, including Subway (1985), Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988), La Femme Nikita (1990), and Léon (1994). Le Dernier Combat won an award at the Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival in 1983. That same year, Besson directed Isabelle Adjani's video clip, Pull Marine. He signed a contract with Gaumont and two years later directed Subway (1985), starring Isabelle Adjani and Christophe Lambert. The film imposed a cartoon-like world of music videos and when it was presented at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, where it was shown out of competition, some of the public hissed at the film's advertising-like style. However, the film won three Césars and was a huge box office hit. Then Besson had his breakthrough in France with Le grand bleu/The Big Blue (1988). Critics counted him among the French movement ‘Cinema du Look’, with a strong focus on art direction. Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue and his later film Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), are seen as examples of this movement and as Hollywood productions from France. Besson fought against the rules and beliefs imposed by French film producers and distributors. |He wanted to show that French cinema was capable of more than what he considered pseudo-intellectual films. Through his films, he wanted to show how the French film industry could compete against Hollywood, by making films that cut across French and American cultures. The producer co-financed the films, shot his films in English and left control with the director. Eventually, he got his own production company: Les Films De Dauphins, he designed a lightweight camera and developed the use of the Louma crane.
In 1980, near the beginning of his career, he founded his own production company, Les Films du Loup, which later, in 1990 was renamed Les Films du Dauphin. It was followed by a second company in 1992, called Leeloo Productions. With his thriller Nikita/La Femme Nikita (1990) starring Anne Parillaud, he made again a hyper-violent, stylised and visually present film about a society in decline. His sixth film was the action-thriller Léon/Léon: The Professional (1994) starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman in her film debut. The plot centres on a professional hitman who reluctantly takes in a twelve-year-old girl after her family is murdered by a corrupt agent. Besson gave the film an emotional undertone and added conscience and hope to the violence. The exterior shots were filmed in New York and most of the interior shots were in France. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and brought him international recognition. In 1997, he moved to Los Angeles with his wife, actress Maïwenn, and their daughter Shanna, to work with Gaumont on what was to become the biggest commercial success for a French film in the United States, Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich. The success was later surpassed by his production Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008). The film's sets and creatures were designed by Moebius and Jean-Claude Mézières, and the costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier. The film won him the César for Best Director in 1998, and Milla Jovovich soon became his new wife. In 1998, Besson supervised the action comedy Taxi directed by Gérard Pirès. Besson's first production as a non-director, the film was a success. Meanwhile, Jeanne d'Arc/The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), his new version of Joan of Arc, attracted three million cinema-goers. Jeanne d'Arc was played by Milla Jovovich, from whom he divorced the year the film was released. At the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, he was appointed President of the Jury.
In the 2000s, Luc Besson seemed to give up directing and to become a full-time producer. He and longtime collaborator Pierre-Ange Le Pogam changed the name of the film company from Leeloo Productions to EuropaCorp, They wanted to develop a new trend in mainstream cinema based on successful films such as the Taxi series (1998–2007), the Transporter series (2002–2008), and the Jet Li films Kiss of the Dragon (Chris Nahon, 2001) and Unleashed/Danny the Dog (Louis Letterier, 2005). Their English-language films Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008), Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton, 2012), and Taken 3 (Olivier Megaton, 2014), all starring Liam Neeson, were major successes, with Taken 2 becoming the largest-grossing export French film. At the same time, he was overseeing the adaptation of the Arthur series of children's novels that he cowrote with Céline Garcia. Now at the head of a highly profitable studio, he nonetheless continued to direct films. The experimental black-and-white film Angel-A (2005), starring Jamel Debbouze and Rie Rasmussen, received mixed reviews from critics and failed to match the success of its predecessors with audiences. The Children’s film Arthur and the Minimoys (2006) was his 10th film. The live-action/animated fantasy film drew a French audience of six million and was exported worldwide. He decided to shoot the two sequels himself at the same time. But Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009), and Arthur 3: War of Two Worlds (2010), only attracted half the audience of the first. Lucy (2014), starring Scarlett became the biggest success for a French feature film, with $459 million. At the same time, Besson enjoyed success by producing the Taken saga between 2008 and 2015 starring Liam Neeson. His blockbuster Valérian et la Cité des mille planets/Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2016) was adapted from the comic book series ‘Valérian et Laureline’ by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières. The film had the biggest budget in the history of French cinema, but the investment proved impossible to make a return on. The failure was repeated with his next film, Anna (2019). At the same time, Taxi 5 (Frank Gastambide, 2019), also disappointed. These three failures left EuropaCorp almost bankrupt. Besson had to sell it to a creditor and close the free, no-credentials scriptwriting and directing school he had founded in 2012. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, which interrupted a large part of film production, and the accusation of rape by Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy, who appeared in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the filmmaker did not shoot for three years but announced that he had written 17 screenplays. In 2023, Besson was definitively cleared of all charges of rape, following a ruling by the Court of Cassation, the highest judicial court in France. Besson directed the film DogMan (2023), starring Caleb Landry Jones, which was released to positive reviews. However, box-office results were disappointing. His next film was the romantic comedy Weekend in Taipei, for which he co-wrote the screenplay. In 2024, while his film June and John was still in post-production, he began shooting Dracula: A Love Tale, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. For the occasion, he reunited with the lead actor of DogMan, Caleb Landry Jones Luc Besson has been married four times. In 1986, he wed actress Anne Parillaud who starred in his film Nikita/La Femme Nikita (1990).. They had a daughter, Juliette, born in 1987, but divorced in 1991. Besson's second wife was actress and director Maïwenn, whom he started dating when he was 31 and she 15. They married in late 1992 when Maïwenn, then 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, born in 1993. Maïwenn later claimed that their relationship was the inspiration for Besson's film Léon (1994), in which the plot concerned the emotional relationship between a grown man and a 12-year-old girl. Their marriage ended in 1997, when, while filming The Fifth Element (1997), Besson got into a relationship with actress Milla Jovovich. In 1997, Besson, aged 38, married 21-year-old Jovovich. They divorced in 1999. In 2004, Besson married film producer Virginie Silla, with whom he had three children.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch, French and English) and IMDb.
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An intensive four-day training session for 17 Somali female journalists ended this week, with the participants receiving intensive instruction in writing for broadcast media. Organized by Somali Women Journalists (SWJ), with UNSOM’s support, the session covered topics such as scriptwriting, interview skills, use of social media, ethical journalism and treatment of news sources.
“We want this training to lead girls into a positive direction. We expect them to move away from the traditional reporting style and adopt modern TV and radio reporting methods,” said the SWJ’s Chairperson, Farhia Mohamed Kheyre, at the opening of the training.
The participants were drawn from the city of Mogadishu, and the Hirshabelle and South West State.
Brickhouse, located in Manchester, is a video production company that offers many various services. Offering film production, editing, sound, scriptwriting and motion graphics. They have been in operation for over 3 years and have made over 100 films.
Scriptwriting!
I'm trying to sort out my story for a new draft and it's so stressful, whatever I change it to doesn't work, so then I have to change to something else. And I end up with millions of pens and pieces of paper on my desk.
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. S.53. Photo: R.K.O. Radio.
Tall and handsome Rory Calhoun (1922-1999) was an American film and TV actor who also worked as a screenwriter, producer and author. He appeared in more than 80 films and more than a thousand episodes of various TV shows. His films include How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), River of No Return (1954), and The Spoilers (1955).
Rory Calhoun was born Francis Timothy McCown in 1922 in Los Angeles, California. His father was James 'Floyd' McCown, a professional gambler, and his mother was Elizabeth Cuthbert. When he was nine months old his father died. After his mother remarried he occasionally used the last name of his stepfather, Durgin. His young criminal career was rather extensive. A high school dropout, he stole a revolver at age 13, which landed him in the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory at Ione, CA. He escaped while in the adjustment centre (jail within the jail). He left home at 17 to escape beatings from his stepfather and began hot-wiring cars. After robbing several jewellery stores, he stole a car and drove it across state lines. This offence sent him to the federal penitentiary in Springfield, MO, for three years. When he finished his sentence he was incarcerated in San Quentin State Penitentiary in California on other charges and remained there until he was paroled just before his 21st birthday. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. His life changed when a Hollywood agent, Sue Carol, auditioned him at 20th Century Fox. He was noticed by Alan Ladd, Sue's husband when Rory was riding a horse in a Los Angeles park. Impressed with Calhoun's physique, Ladd introduced him to Sue. Rory got a bit role in Something for the Boys (Lewis Seiler, 1944), with Carmen Miranda. He got his first credited role as Frank McCown in the Laurel and Hardy comedy, The Bullfighters (Malcolm St. Clair, 1945). He was signed to a contract by Henry Wilson, an agent known for a stable of young and attractive actors with unusual names like Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter. He initially christened him "Troy Donahue", then changed it to "Rory Calhoun". Wilson used the Troy Donahue name later on another up-and-coming actor. Wilson was an employee of David O. Selznick and he signed Calhoun in Selznick's company. His first public appearance was as Lana Turner's escort to the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), a Selznick production. The glamorous blonde and her handsome companion attracted the paparazzi, and photos appeared in newspapers and fan magazines. In 1945, he was sent again to prison for beating a detective. Calhoun did not appear in a film for a year before being lent to producer Sol Lesser for the thriller The Red House (Delmer Daves, 1947) with Edward G. Robinson. In the same year, he worked in two more films, Adventure Island (Sam Newfield, 1947) and That Hagen Girl (Peter Godfrey, 1947) starring Shirley Temple. He graduated to starring in Westerns such as Sand (Louis King, 1949). He first appeared in a negative role in Return of Frontiersman (Richard L. Bare, 1950), starring Gordon MacRae and Julie London.
In August 1950, Rory Calhoun signed a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox. Some of his first films for Fox were such Westerns as A Ticket to Tomahawk (Richard Sale, 1950), and Rogue River (John Rawlins, 1951). With Susan Hayward, he co-starred in the musical With a Song in My Heart (Walter Lang, 1952) and with Gene Tierney in the Western Way of a Gaucho (Jacques Tourneur, 1952). He co-starred with Marilyn Monroe in the comedy How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco, 1953) as Betty Grable's love interest and the Western River of No Return (Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco, 1954), starring Robert Mitchum. Both films were big hits. Calhoun then left Fox. He starred in such Westerns as The Yellow Tomahawk (Lesley Selander, 1954), A Bullet is Waiting (John Farrow, 1954) and The Spoilers (Jesse Hibbs, 1955) with Ann Baxter. Calhoun's conviction history became public when his mugshot appeared on the May 1955 cover of Confidential magazine. According to one source, his agent, Henry Willson, disclosed information about Calhoun's years in prison to Confidential in exchange for the tabloid not printing an exposé about the secret homosexual life of Rock Hudson, another Willson client. According to another source, blackmailers threatened to make his prison record public, so instead, Calhoun revealed it himself. However, the disclosure had no negative effect on Calhoun's career and only served to solidify his 'bad boy' image. He starred in such Westerns as Raw Edge (John Sherwood, 1956), The Hired Gun (Ray Nazzaro, 1957) and Ride Out of Revenge (1958). In 1957, Rory and his partner Victor Orsatti started a film production company called 'Rorvic'. He helped produce films like the Film Noir Flight to Hong Kong (Joseph M. Newman, 1956), and the Westerns The Hired Gun (Ray Nazzaro, 1957), Domino Kid (Ray Nazzaro, 1957), and Apache Territory (Ray Nazzaro, 1958). In 1959, he made his television debut in The Texan (1959-1960). Around this time, Rory also started scriptwriting. He also appeared in an episode of the CBS show December Bride (1959). The episode was called 'Rory Calhoun the Texan'.
In the early 1960s, he starred in the stock car racing film Thunder in Carolina (Paul Helmick, 1960), and the Peplum Il Colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (1961), co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. The film was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before (as the replacement director for The Last Days of Pompeii and as a secondary director for both Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis). The film was originally meant to star John Derek. However, he clashed with Sergio Leone and was replaced by Rory Calhoun. Calhoun travelled to Spain to make the film, then to Great Britain for The Treasure of Monte Cristo (Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker, 1961) in Britain, and then to Italy for L'avventura di un italiano in Cina/Marco Polo (Piero Pierotti, 1962) with Yoko Tani. He returned to the U.S. to make several films for producer A.C. Lyles, such as the war film The Young and the Brave (Francis D. Lyon, 1963) and the Western Apache Rising (R.G. Springsteen, 1965), with Corinne Calvet. He returned to Europe to make the French Eurospy film Our Men in Bagdad (Paolo Bianchini, 1966) with Roger Hanin, and the Spanish adventure film The Emerald of Artatama (José María Elorrieta, 1969). During the 1960s, he also guest-starred in several popular TV shows like Death Valley Days (1963), Bonanza (1964), Gunsmoke (1965), I Spy (1966), Gilligan's Island (1967) and Custer (1969). In the 1970s he could be seen in TV shows such as The Doris Day Show (1972), Police Story (1973), Starsky and Hutch (1975) and Fantasy Land (1978). In 1982, he appeared for five years as Judge Judson Tyler on the US soap opera Capitol and remained on the show until it ended in 1987. In the cinema, he starred in cult films like the Science-Fiction horror film Night of the Lepus (William F. Claxton, 1972) with Janet Leigh, the comedy horror film Motel Hell (Kevin Connor, 1980), the exploitation horror film Angel (Robert Vincent O'Neill, 1984), and the Science-Fiction action film Hell Comes to Frogtown (Donald G. Jackson, R. J. Kizer, 1989). He produced himself Fists of Steel (Jerry Schafer, 1991). His last film as an actor was Pure Country (Christopher Cain, 1992) in which the still handsome Calhoun played the character of 'Earnest Tucker' - a family patriarch and farmer. His last screen appearance was in the horror anthology television series Tales from the Crypt (1993). Rory Calhoun was married three times, once to his first wife and twice to his second wife. His first wife was Lita Baron (1948-1970), with whom he had three daughters, Cindy (1957), Tami (1958) and Lorri (1961). At the time of the divorce, Baron accused him of committing adultery with more than 70 women, including Betty Grable. Reportedly, Calhoun responded, "Heck, she didn't even include half of them". His second wife was journalist Sue Rhodes (1971-1979; 1982-1999) with whom he had one daughter, Rory Patricia (1971). He also had a daughter with actress Vitina Marcus, Athena Marcus Calhoun, who became "The World's Most Beautiful Showgirl" and was awarded "The Key to the City of Las Vegas" in 1987. Guy Madison was one of his closest friends. The two men often went on fishing and hunting trips. Guy and his (second) wife Sheila Connolly named him godfather to their firstborn Bridget. Rory Calhoun passed away in 1999 at the age of 76 after a ten-day hospitalisation at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. He died due to complications from emphysema and diabetes. Calhoun has two stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television.
Sources: Bill Takacs (IMDb), Celeb-true, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Panel discussion with Portland’s own Live Wire radio broadcast. Includes the producer, actors, writers, sound people. Panel moderated by Caitlin Kunkel (in S1) followed by a performance from 8 - 8:30 followed by roundtables with students who specifically are interested in scriptwriting and performance.
Photographs by Matthew Gaston
Margarita motivation. Taco Tuesday thespian catch up with my good buddy and writer's lunch....scriptwriting 101. Then it's back to bad tunes, a solid espresso high, and hanging out in my bathing suit in front of a computer.....tap tap tap!
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Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Novel writing
It is free writing where writer can put their thoughts into words .Novels won’t have specific rules to follow so it is much more creative compared to all other writings
Screenplay writing
It is more visual writing compared to Novel writing as screenwriter has to give some specifics ...
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Production still from a Spin Creative (www.spincreativegroup.com) shoot for the Sea-Tac Airport "Going Green" :60 second spot. Spin Creative shot during the week of July 23, 2012 in various locations at the airport and in the Seattle-area. The spot features a family arriving at the airport to enjoy a vacation. The heart of the spot features 3D "match move" 3D type composited into eye-catching shots. Each piece of 3D type calls out the "Green" efforts underway at the airport. Spin Creative developed the creative concept and script as well as provided full production support and services for the spot.
Production Company: Spin Creative, LLC
Creative Director, Script Writer, Director: Matthew Billings (Spin Creative, LLC)
Thornton Little Theatre plays host to an exciting programme of shows and events including local stage performances as well as live music and comedy events.
What's more we are now home to a whole host of classes from Zumba to dance, acting, singing, poetry and scriptwriting. There's something every day of the week - please call us to find out more.
The newly refurbished facilities mean Thornton Little Theatre now has its very own top notch function suite - ideal for conferences, meetings, parties and celebrations. With an in-house bar and catering we've got everything you need to put on an event to remember.
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In the sound era, animation production involved lot of overhead expense and labor intensiveness of so the production houses had to depend on imports rather than produce it locally. Up to the 70s the TV animation series was hugely popular till the feature length animations ruled the market. Somehow from 80s gain the TV animations revived but with definite technological advantages and reduction in production cost.
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