Changing face of Hollywood (or if Kubrick had a RED camera)

[JH Fleming]

Reminder from the past about the changing face of Hollywood (or if Kubrick had a RED camera)

Stanley Kubrick: "I think that if the reigning powers had any great respect for good pictures or the people who could make them, that this respect was probably very well tempered by the somewhat cynical observation that poor and mediocre pictures might just as well prove successful as their pictures of higher value.

Television has changed this, completely, and I think that, despite the unhappy financial upheavel that it's caused in the movie industry, it is also provided a very invigorating and stimulating challenge which has made it necessary for films to be made with more sincerity and more daring.

If Hollywood lacks the color and excitement of its early days with Rolls-Royces and leopard-skin seat covers, I think on the other hand it provides the most exciting and stimulating atmosphere of opportunity and possibilities for young people today."

CBS Radio, December 1958

 

[Brent .T]

We were just discussing this the other day on the thread :- Aaton, Arri , Panavision - have ceased production of film cameras.

We agreed ( Bill Anderson and I ) that Kubrick would've embraced an Epic , no doubt. In all his productions, Kubrick always considered any means at his disposal to present a ground breaking product. That's why a newly released Kubrick film seemed like an "event" . You were getting new territory in structure, performance , thought etc and including cutting edge technology. This is well detailed in " The Making of Kubrick's 2001 " . ( edited by Jerome Agel ). I believe David Mullens has refered to this book in the past. He used the ultra fast lens in " Barry Lyndon ". He used Garrett Brown's early steadicam in the " The Shinning " , I could go on.

Douglas Trumbull ( who worked on Malick's " Tree of Life" ) developed the slit - scan for the stargate scene in 2001 , and lucky he did , they were a good 3/4 of their way through production with no idea how to present the stargate . Can't get more cutting edge than that.