The Walt Disney Company

Walt Disney Productions

David S Inglish

Gordon E Liljegren

Donald W Iwerks

Lee R Richardson

Robert R Otto

R David Snyder

A film editing table includes a light source mounted away from the editor's sitting position, with a light guide transmitting the light to the film editing table's optics to produce images on the table's rear projection screen with a brightness and color temperature substantially the same as the images displayed in commercial theatres such that accurate color judgments can be made for animation film. The editing table can also be used to edit dailies of live action motion picture films. The light source is preferably a Xenon light source and the light guide is preferably a liquid light guide. The end of the guide from which the light emanates is movable along three axes, producing the brightest image possible.

Apparatus and method for editing film

An automated camera control drives a video or motion picture camera along multiple independent axes of movement to position the camera for recording an image of a field of view, typically focused upon a model or artwork in special effects motion picture photography. Key position coordinates are manually defined for specific frames of film in a film transport. The automated system generates axial coordinates at each intermediate frame and drives the camera to the intermediate positions thereby defined, as well as the several key positions defined manually. The camera is mounted upon a carriage and a model can also be mounted in relation to the camera and moved in coordinated fashion along a multiplicity of axes. The system accepts manual additions of specified key positions and position data, and the key position information can be edited or deleted. The camera can be driven through the same course of movement with exact repeatability once the specified key positions and corresponding positional data have been manually defined. A model stand and motion picture process projector can be driven in synchronism with the motion picture camera, and an operator monitors and controls all functions from a console positioned independent of the camera.

Automatic camera control for creating special effects in motion picture

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La Crescenta, CA, United States of America

David S Inglish