Wild Rivers Film Festival: Post Production

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Since I enjoyed the first film production seminar at hit the Wild Rivers Film Festival, I decided to attend the second Post Production panel discussion. Dan Springen carried much of the discussions, but Scott Brock chipped in on occasion to discuss what it was like editing for Martin Scorsese. I was pleased that both med use Adobe Premiere pro for the bulk of their editing. There is another program called Da Vinci which is good at color correcting and similar tasks.  Eve Annemberg was also up front, but she had to leave early to catch a plane back home.

Besides the people on the panel it seemed that many in the audience were professional editors, which penned up some lively discussions about the evolution of film editing software. Final Cut Pro was a great program for a while but the. The software engineers dumbed down the interface to make it more like iMovie. Professional film editors dropped the program like a lead brick.

A local school teacher named Kimberly was attending. She had used Final Cut Pro for a school project and wanted clarification as to what was wrong with the program. I think you can get any program to work if you are persistent and stubborn. I got to chat with Kimberly at just about every filmmaker event and she made my stay in the Pacific North West such a pleasure. She had worked with Christo when he created a huge series of gates in New York’s’ Central Park that were wrapped in bright orange fabric. I remember seeing images at the time.

50 Oldest Churches of NYC: Old New Dorp Moravian Church

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Old New Dorp Moravian Church at Richmond Road and Todt Hill Road in Staten Island New York, was built as the first Moravian church of Staten Island in 1763, this structure of Dutch Colonial style served as combined church and parsonage until 1845 when the new church was constructed. It has since been used as a church school and a cemetery office.

The Moravian Cemetery is the largest and oldest active cemetery on Staten Island, having opened in 1740. The cemetery encompasses 113 acres (46 hectares) and is the property of the local Moravian Church congregation of Staten Island.

In what was a purely farming community, the cemetery was originally made available as a free cemetery for the public in order to discourage families from using farm burial plots. The Moravian Cemetery is the burial place for a number of famous Staten Islanders, including members of the Vanderbilt family.

After the closure in the 1880s of the South Reformed Dutch Church in Richmondtown the graves of that church’s graveyard were re-interred at Moravian.

A monument to Robert Gould Shaw, a Union soldier who led the first all-black regiment in the American Civil War and died in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, was erected here by his family. The director Martin Scorsese also has a burial plot here.

In the 19th century, Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the Moravian Church 45 acres. Later, his son William Henry Vanderbilt gave a further 4 acres and constructed the residence for the cemetery superintendent. The Vanderbilt Mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and constructed in 1885–1886, is part of the family’s privately owned cemetery. The Vanderbilt Mausoleum is a replica of a Romanesque church in Arles, France. The Vanderbilt Cemetery landscape was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The cemetery is not open to the public. The Vanderbilt Mausoleum and portions of the cemetery were designated a New York City designated landmark in 2016.