Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constitutes little on which to build a legend. Quite possibly, Crenshaw will be just another of rock's firecrackers, sparkling brilliantly for a few seconds and then disappearing forever. But his album bears too much promise, indeed too much immediate confirmation, to dismiss Crenshaw as a flash in the pan...
...Janet Gaynor, 73, winner of the first Oscar for Best Actress (1929), in serious condition with eleven broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, an injured bladder and a damaged kidney; and Mary Martin, 68, star of Broadway's original South Pacific and TV's first Peter Pan, in good condition with two fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis and a punctured lung; after a vehicular accident; in San Francisco. Gaynor and her husband Paul Gregory, 61, and Martin and her pressagent, Ben Washer, 76, were riding in a taxi when they were struck broadside by a van. Washer...
...happens, he is back in the Oriole clubhouse on this day to conduct chapel services. Weaver is praying for Lefthander Scott McGregor's sore arm to improve. "Or let whomever I choose to take Scottie's place-another damned decision-get the job done." When these decisions pan out, isn't this a pleasure that he will miss? "Momentarily gratifying," he grumps. "But the only real satisfaction is winning it all." He pauses. "Only did that once...
...they just stared: the space creature was cut out of the picture. "It was a disaster," Spielberg recalls. "It looked worse than the super-8 movies I make myself." Says Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001 lost the introduction of the star child in its wondrous last sequence to some bad panning and scanning in 1977: "It's a very unsatisfactory technique. It destroyed the compositional elements and often looks like a TV football game when the camera follows the man without the ball and has to pan back to pick up the key action...
Peter Keane, director of quality control for Home Box Office, admits that panning and scanning is "a series of compromises," but maintains that "the film redirects you. There is always a center." Says Tom McCarthy, senior vice president, post production, at Columbia Pictures: "Panning and scanning involves creative decisions." Unfortunately, those decisions are not made by the creators of the movie. Yet Richard Wolfe, 20th Century-Fox's vice president of engineering and video technology, insists, "My experience is that directors are not interested in the pan-and-scan transfer session...