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Greg and Tom interview Motion Picture unit still photographer Clay Enos about his work with Director Zack Snyder on "Watchman",  "Justice League", "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice",  and most recently the Netflix film "Army of the Dead"
We talk about Clay's  beginnings in motion picture still photography starting with a visit to the set of "300" and how his friendship with Deborah and Zack Snyder shaped  the path of his career in photography. We also touch on his travels including a trip from Bogotá Colombia all the way to New York and a photography trip riding around on a Vespa. We also get intimate stories about shooting on "A Star is Born"  and how it's difficult to swing a Trident in a bathroom.  And exactly why the Van Nuys airport is a movie hotspot.   Much to Tom's delight we also hear  a funny Halloween story about Gal Gadot


A little bit about Clay Enos:
Clay Enos, despite over a decade of working on blockbuster film sets, refuses to be pigeonholed into any one category of photography. Movie posters, a far-flung non-profit assignment, or a spontaneous portrait on the street, finds Clay consistently capturing moments that feel both real and transcendent. Always spontaneous yet sincere, Clay's unique style shines through his commercial, editorial and personal photographs.

Clay enjoys the fast pace of shooting on the fly. His relaxed, jovial style allows him to be creative and resourceful with whatever he is shooting. His recent commercial clients include Warner Bros. and the Bloomberg Foundation.

In 2007, film director Zack Snyder hired Clay to document his film adaptation of Watchmen for Warner Bros. That opportunity opened up a world that for the next decade saw him working as a set photographer. His most notable recent films include the Academy Award winning A Star is Born and the upcoming sequel to the critically acclaimed and worldwide blockbuster, Wonder Woman 1984.



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Greg and Tom discuss the Canadian Documentary "Spaceman" in the so called Real Universe on CBC DOCS POV and during the second half of the show they talk about the Alternate Earth feature film SPACEMAN.  A film that was made based on the Canadian documentary with some additional discussion of Carl Sagan and Extraterrestrials.

On November 29th, 1980, Granger Taylor left a note for his family telling them he was about to embark on a 42-month odyssey 'aboard an alien spaceship'. He vanished that day, never to be seen again. Almost 40 years later, his family, friends, and theorists the world over, are still searching for answers.

This Canadian documentary about Granger Taylor who was a master mechanic who built a spaceship. One rainy day in November, he left a note for his family and then mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth. Spaceman explores what happened to Taylor and why.

In late 2005 a Feature film based on the Granger Taylor story was released with a stellar cast:

• John C. Reilly  as Granger Taylor,
• Steve Buscemi for his best friend,
• Alice Drummond  as his the sister
• Nick Offerman as the investigator
• Keith Carradine  as the Owner of Bobs grill
• Ed Harris as flat top (journalist) 
• Dr Ruth as an old woman
• Robert Duvall as Douglas Taylor
• Vince Vaughn as Joesph Taylor - his half brother
• Christian Bale and — Bradley Whitfird in cameo roles
• June Squibb — old Woman
• Don Flanagan  and David Straithearn as local dynamite salesman

The film opened to mixed reviews but went on to be strong  player on Pluto TV helping to make that fledgling network strong amongst the Canadian North country  UFO enthusiasts .

Tom and Greg also have some additional discussions related to Space the Pioneer Spacecraft and Carl Sagan  as well as various other Sci-Fi related talk.

See more info on our official Podcast website  alternateearthcinema.space

Watch the documentary Spaceman on Prime Video

Spoiler alert: Watch an update to the Granger Taylor story in this official CBC:  trailer


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     Greg and Tom interview the Cinematographer Steven Poster and discuss his work as DP on such classic films as "Donnie Darko", "Strange Brew" and his work as camera operator on "Bladerunner" "Close Encounters of the third kind" and many more films. And for the animal lovers in the audience we talk about his work with animals on "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore " as well as an Elephant and Giraffe on "Big Top Pee-wee"
       We also talk about his role while President of the ICG local# 600  (International Cinematographers Guild) and his work with the  ACS  (American Cinematographers Society)  We also get into some discussions about  Film and Digital along with Steven's love for still photography and black and white work.

Steven Poster's BIO

Steven Poster was born and raised In Chicago, and was first interested in still photography. He studied at Southern Illinois University, Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He first filmed commercials and documentaries. He then worked on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Blade Runner". He is currently filming "Une Chance Sur Deux" in France under French director Patrice Leconte. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

Links that Steven mentions on the show.
Scriptation   Go Paperless On Set
Mark up scripts, transfer notes, save hours of prep with Hollywood’s must-have app for production.
ShotDeck  ShotDeck is an invaluable research and educational resource that makes life easier for anyone in Film, Media, Advertising, and Education.


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In this episode Greg and Tom interview the Actor Tim Russ who you may know from Star Trek Voyager. We talk to Tim about his work as a Voice Over actor on Games along with his thoughts on digital actors and the power of real emotion created when using an actor vs. a digital creation.
Video games Tim Russ has done Voice work for — Captain Kells, the Captain of the Brotherhood of Steel’s Airship 
We also talk to team about his work is a Director on some new pilots as well as a Horror film he directed "Slayer Chronicles"
        We talk about the power of editing in the success of a film along with the amazing work an editor can do to create a trailer for a film
And some very exciting discussions about his interest in Astronomy and his work as a sponsor for the Telescope Unistellar eVscope

Some links for some of Tim's recent projects.

DIRECTING:

"Slayer Chronicles” Trailer:

https://youtu.be/gaVgaLu3nGw

"Tenet Noctis" Trailer:

https://youtu.be/B9faW-Ey8bs

"Junkie" Trailer - Current

https://youtu.be/5uIi-5ODzcI

Pilot that Tim worked on

"The Officiant" trailer - feel good family series pilot coming soon:

https://youtu.be/7rDybD1objI

MUSIC:

“WE”  music video:

https://youtu.be/o2rEFW6YKRM

ACTING:

Tim Russ - Drama Reel:

https://youtu.be/r1YlEgFM0nk

IMDB info on Tim Russ

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0750913/

Links and images:

Tim Russ Web page
http://www.timrusswebpage.com/index.html

Astronomy and Telescope info that Tim talked about  

Unistellar eVscope:

https://shop.unistellaroptics.com/cart-us-landing-messier-marathon-1?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwMWjn6eu7wIVkb3ACh2Z5g5_EAAYASAAEgLA6_D_BwE

Tim Russ and his  eVscope demonstration link:

https://youtu.be/HAFGDvSv4Dk


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Greg Dyro and Tom Burka interview Movie Studio Corporate Archivist Steve Bingen

Steven Bingen has long worked within the motion picture industry, both in production and as a writer and historian. He held a staff position at Warner Bros. Corporate Archive - aiding in the preservation and management of the studios legend and legacy.

He is an author of "MGM: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot," "Warner Bros: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot," "Paramount: City of Dreams,"  "Warner Bros. The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of," (Photos by Greg Dyro and text and captions by Steve Bingen)   "Hollywood's Lost Backlot: 40 Acres of Glamor and Mystery," and "Easy Rider: 50 Years Looking for America," and has contributed to many books and documentaries.

His numerous essays and magazine articles include recent pieces for "Filmfax," "Mondo Cult," "Cinema Retro" and "Perspective." "The Ghastly Love of Johnny X" for which he wrote the screenplay for director Paul Bunnell, was released in 2012.

Steve Bingen on Amazon

 The Movie that Steve wrote    The Ghastly Love of Johnny X


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Greg and Tom Discuss the Best Pirate movies, the worst Pirate movies and Alternate Earth Pirate movies.  We discuss Pirates of the Caribbean, the Goonies, Captain Blood, Treasure Island, Treasure Planet. Hook and  Cutthroat Island with Geena Davis, and a fantastic version of Treasure Island from the Alternate Earth.  And not really a Pirate Movie but Master and Commander: the far side of the world.  Tom and Greg also discuss the history of recent Pirate movies and what movie's spectacular failure caused a long dry spell of pirate movies from Hollywood.

An omission on our part  Robert Newton
Talk like a Pirate Day (Sept 19th)

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Tom and Greg discuss some of the most intriguing things (in their minds) of the ways Life imitates Art 

 The alternate earth Designated Survivor is a show where the president incites an attack on congress which results in Congress being destroyed along with the president and that, as new president  Keifer Sutherland is forced to deal with the maniacal followers of the dead president, who it turns out is alive and living in Zambia, where he controls a shadow government… 
     Along with some other musings on Star Wars (why a lack of stand up comics in the Star Wars Universe) along with more Trek talk. 
       We also get into the Streaming world Remarking on the mashup of all the trends in streaming movies and tv series — a couple is making a documentary about the latest serial murder (for Netflix) when a teenager shows up who claims to be a hitherto unknown son who is writing a screenplay (for Amazon Prime) about a house is haunted by the ghost of a detective who is seeking to atone for the accidental death of his son that he feels responsible for.  And in the end we discover that the couple are ghosts and that the son who popped up unexpectedly is actually the son of the mother and it’s a limited series on Apple TV. 

A bit of Fringe

And promise to our loyal listeners a more organized episode next week

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Movie Trivia
Greg and Tom delve into some movie and streaming content trivia in this the last episode of 2020.  A year that will go down in both universes as equally bad in multiple ways.

Also a fun discussion of radio favorite the short form content of Dick Orkin and his radio series Chickenman a part of both Tom and Greg's formative years in High School.

Chickenman's rogues gallery includes the Choker, the Hummer, the Chicken-Plucker, the Dog Lady, Big Clyde Crushman, the Bear Lady, the Very Diabolical Rodney Farber (a childhood playmate who never forgave Benton Harbor for breaking his red wagon one Christmas Day), and the Couple From SHTICK (Secret Henchmen To Injure Crime Killers). Benton Harbor is prone to spoonerisms, such as "I shall not rest while rime runs crampant in the streets of Midland City."

Greg first heard Chickenman on the AFRTS radio station in Guantanamo Cuba where I worked as a summer intern 1974  I have my copies on large Ampex Reel to Reel tapes as Tom mentions in the show.

Orkin was production director at WCFL in Chicago, IL back in 1967 when he created “The Adventures of Chickenman”, portraying mild-mannered shoe salesman Benton Harbor who would fight crime as “Chickenman”. “He’s Everywhere. He’s Everywhere!” The series was syndicated to more than 1,500 stations worldwide.

A special thanks to Apple music for having all the Chickenman episodes on iTunes


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Welcome to our Fourth Episode:
Greg and Tom talk about Movies and alternate things during a freewheeling discussion worthy of an inter-dimensional snooze fest. They also play some recordings of "Listener Comments" that they have received from listeners of past episodes from the alternate Earth.  Recorded the weekend before Thanksgiving , we all give thanks that they get back to reviewing movies soon.

Greg and Tom also talk about this film on Amazon Prime
A documentary called Never Surrender about the film "GALAXY QUEST" 


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Soul Runner      released the summer of 2014 

Greg and Tom discuss the Feature Film SOUL RUNNER  along with other cinematic influences. A wonderful rambling discussion of film and SciFi concepts both real and fantastical. Join your hosts on a seemingly never ending discussion of the practical importance neither of them can fully understand. 

Michael is in search of his Grandfather who is the creator of the Oswa Drive which is what enables a ship to warp space and travel to the distant stars.

Michael starts his search in old New Orleans protected by large flood gates from the risen seas. He consults the Soul Archive a data storage of the thoughts and memories of the dead. 

Each time he enters a Soul Archive to speak to the dead leads the world within seems calm and quiet. The real world is a full of visual and auditory distractions and seems to grow more complex and a subtle background noise as the story goes on. So that each time he enters the church like confines of the Soul Archives its evident. (Oscar nominated for sound design)

Michael is a Sun runner. He races in contests within the solar system in sophisticated ships with modified Oswa drives that let you hang in real space right before the warp is created racing in the outer jovian planets between Jupiter and Neptune.  A sublight race with a tricky human controlled flicker of the powerful Oswa engine to keep your ship in real space and go the fastest from Jupiter to Saturn.    The races are sponsored by the ship makers and Osaw warp engine makers.

As he races, he discovers fluctuations in the Oswa drive that shouldn’t be there, and in the final race with his nemesis, loses all power and then miraculously it come back with a surge of energy that can’t be explained even by the best Oswa physicists. 

This is Sean Connery’s last movie, NOT the League of Extraordinary Gentleman, as many believe.  He plays the grandfather, who we see in various flashbacks, but whose voice Michael thinks he hears from time to time when he is racing.

SOUL RUNNER   A  Universe 2  release of an Oswan Pictures Production  with minimal funding from K Mesler partners (so they don't loose their shirts in foreign markets)

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