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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Visu S-193, "Workshop: Film and Anthropology," offers a veritable trip around the world and through the human psyche. For a workshop tuition of $785, Emile de Brigard, director of film research, Robert G. Gardner, director of the Peabody Museum film study center and Jean Rouch, visiting audio-visual professor from the University of Paris will teach human behavior as seen through non-fiction films...
...three Star Wars epics, but for such Steven Spielberg hits as E.T., Poltergeist and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now ILM's handiwork seems to be everywhere. The company created the effects for six of last year's releases, among them Cocoon (for which ILM technicians won their seventh visual-effects Oscar), Back to the Future, Young Sherlock Holmes and Explorers. And that does not count smaller jobs on films like Out of Africa. (The train that wends its way through the African landscape in the opening credit sequence is actually a miniature built by ILM and inserted later into...
Computers are also being used to create entire images from scratch. For effects like the stained-glass man in Young Sherlock Holmes, all the visual elements of the figure--size, shape and surface characteristics--are fed into a computer, along with such data as camera angles and light sources. The computer then uses this information to construct an image. Simple geometrical shapes are relatively easy to create, but the process is far more difficult for complicated figures. The stained-glass man, for instance, took four people some four months to create...
...other panelists each spoke for a couple of minutes after the film, and then Cavell opened the floor up for questions. The other participants were Robert Gardner '48, directer of the Carpenter Center; Alfred F. Guzzetti, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department; Vlada K. Petric, curator of the Harvard Film Archive; screenwriter and film critic William D. Rothman; and Charles Warren '69, lecturer on history and literature...
...percent more of the faculty, drawing these extra professors from the junior faculty, as well as granting leaves, salary increases and other benefits to the promising young hotshot. This is good first step, particularly if the posts are allocated to some of the harder pressed departments like Visual and Environmental Studies. But Spence should make sure that these goodies don't direct the junior professors towards research at the expense of teaching...