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Chris Bushman

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I`ve been involved in the technical aspects of the motion picture industry for the past 35 years. In 2007 I received a Scientific/Technical Academy Award for my contribution to archival film preservation.

Experience in the area

Currently, I manage a small motion picture film laboratory in Hollywood, California. I have broad experience in many technical aspects of the motion picture business. I have worked as an animation cameraman, production manager, optical printing foreman, still photographer, color timer, sensitometry control foreman, video engineer, customer service foreman, analytical chemist, director of quality control.

Member, Society of Motion Picture/Television Engineers http://www.smpte.org/ - Member, American Radio Relay League http://www.arrl.org/ - Member, Quarter Century Wireless Assn. http://www.lockport-ny.com/radio.htm - President, Zen Nippon Airinkai, So Cal Chapter http://home.earthlink.net/~filmlabrat/ - Member, Maltose Falcons Homebrewing Society http://www.westval.com/mfalcons/ - Alumni, American Brewers' Guild http://www.abgbrew.com/

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Recent Reviews from Users

User	Date	K	C	T	P	Comments
Kaylee	11/21/09	10	10	10	10	Thankyou very much, you were very helpful!
chandler	11/16/09	9	8	9	9
Felix	08/27/09	10	10	10	10	Thanks heaps!
Baron	08/27/09	10	10	10	10	I was pleasantly surprised to get such .....
Rich	08/04/09	10	10	10	10

Recent Answers from Chris Bushman

2009-11-21 oscars:

Good questions Kaylee. "A Beautiful Mind" won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2001. On the Wikipedia page, the four films listed beneath are the runner-ups. The 27 wins and 47 nominations include ALL

2009-11-15 regarding some special effects.:

Hiya Chandler! Well, I can see you've really been thinking hard about this stuff. Sometimes there are multiple paths to achieve the same goal but here are some brief answers about the most usual approach

2009-08-27 Digital archiving via seperations:

Interesting paper. Most of it makes sense. The part about SEYCM's makes me cringe. The presenters are a little naive and need to do their homework a little better. Optimizing for scanning instead of

2009-08-27 two questions:

Hi Felix, A soundstage IS an indoor set so I assume that you are talking about an existing interior compared to a set of an interior on a soundstage. Soundstages have very high ceilings and are mostly

2009-08-26 Digital archiving via seperations:

The key thing here, Baron, is to put yourself in the shoes of the archivist 100 years from now. If you do, you'll be able to answer some of your own questions about your project. When I started the

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