I'm sorry, Tom, but as you say, even if you know it's coming, you are never ready. You had a long history there and when I got the WaPo news, I almost forwarded it to you, but then I knew for sure that you would hear from your own connections. He meant so much to so many over the years. I'm sure he taught you a lot too. My engineering me…
I'm sorry, Tom, but as you say, even if you know it's coming, you are never ready. You had a long history there and when I got the WaPo news, I almost forwarded it to you, but then I knew for sure that you would hear from your own connections. He meant so much to so many over the years. I'm sure he taught you a lot too. My engineering mentor was a brilliant man, professor at Cal Tech who passed from Azheimers also. The most horrible way for an amazing mind to go. I was fortunate to see him on TV at the Academy Awards, getting his honorary Oscar for inventing the Movieola and setting up the company to manufacture that device that revolutionized putting a film together. He could barely speak and walked with difficulty, but it was clear that he still remembered the Movieola. He passed less than a year later.
I'm sure you have many more stories yourself of your experiences with Corman over the years. "about stuff" says more than many others of what and who he was. even as the Variety obit told how much he meant to so many coming up that we've forgotten that there was a time when nobody knew who they were. Your recollections are important too. Write them down as they come to you. He was lucky that you are the one that showed up.
I almost forgot. LInda designed Roger's first company logo back in the day, when she worked at the Women's Graphic Center down at the Woman's Building. He went there because he could get the good work done cheaper than anywhere else. True to Roger. LInda still has the original artwork in one of her files.
Mark Serrurier. Also look up Serrurier Truss. The contribution that allowed Big Science to be. Asrtrophysics would not be here without it. Ronald Florence's book, The Perfect Machine is the history of the develpment of astrophysics, starting at the New York Athletic Club and ending with the dedication of the 200" Palomar Telescope. I worked for his son, Steve, building Rose Parade floats in Pasadena. Mark had recently retired and sold Moviola to the competition, Magnasync and brought one of the old South Bend lathes to the shop to help build the moving parts. I was designing the animation and structural systems so it was natural that he hung out with me and showed me his designs that his son asked him about.Since I was doing the building and faster and cheaper was the goal, if my design would last through the parade we'd do it my way. If he saw serious issues, we'd do it his way. In either case, he would bring drawings, graphs and calculations back the next day and go over all of it so I could incorporate the physics into my future designs, He was at my side for four years. No grad student ever got that kind of hands on attention and experience. I loved that man more than my own father, who cast doubt upon my every move since childhood.
Mark's father actually built the first little hand crank projector to show movies at home. Mark incorporated the frame accurate cutting block and BOOM, there was the Moviola.
I can be a little long winded, but there was so much more about Mark Serrurier than his name.
I'm sorry, Tom, but as you say, even if you know it's coming, you are never ready. You had a long history there and when I got the WaPo news, I almost forwarded it to you, but then I knew for sure that you would hear from your own connections. He meant so much to so many over the years. I'm sure he taught you a lot too. My engineering mentor was a brilliant man, professor at Cal Tech who passed from Azheimers also. The most horrible way for an amazing mind to go. I was fortunate to see him on TV at the Academy Awards, getting his honorary Oscar for inventing the Movieola and setting up the company to manufacture that device that revolutionized putting a film together. He could barely speak and walked with difficulty, but it was clear that he still remembered the Movieola. He passed less than a year later.
I'm sure you have many more stories yourself of your experiences with Corman over the years. "about stuff" says more than many others of what and who he was. even as the Variety obit told how much he meant to so many coming up that we've forgotten that there was a time when nobody knew who they were. Your recollections are important too. Write them down as they come to you. He was lucky that you are the one that showed up.
I almost forgot. LInda designed Roger's first company logo back in the day, when she worked at the Women's Graphic Center down at the Woman's Building. He went there because he could get the good work done cheaper than anywhere else. True to Roger. LInda still has the original artwork in one of her files.
What is the name of your professor who invented the movieola. I learned to edit on one and remember it fondly.
Mark Serrurier. Also look up Serrurier Truss. The contribution that allowed Big Science to be. Asrtrophysics would not be here without it. Ronald Florence's book, The Perfect Machine is the history of the develpment of astrophysics, starting at the New York Athletic Club and ending with the dedication of the 200" Palomar Telescope. I worked for his son, Steve, building Rose Parade floats in Pasadena. Mark had recently retired and sold Moviola to the competition, Magnasync and brought one of the old South Bend lathes to the shop to help build the moving parts. I was designing the animation and structural systems so it was natural that he hung out with me and showed me his designs that his son asked him about.Since I was doing the building and faster and cheaper was the goal, if my design would last through the parade we'd do it my way. If he saw serious issues, we'd do it his way. In either case, he would bring drawings, graphs and calculations back the next day and go over all of it so I could incorporate the physics into my future designs, He was at my side for four years. No grad student ever got that kind of hands on attention and experience. I loved that man more than my own father, who cast doubt upon my every move since childhood.
Mark's father actually built the first little hand crank projector to show movies at home. Mark incorporated the frame accurate cutting block and BOOM, there was the Moviola.
I can be a little long winded, but there was so much more about Mark Serrurier than his name.