{"id":291,"date":"2014-06-21T15:21:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T21:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2017-07-18T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T04:57:24","slug":"robocop-memory-daze-callsheets-scripts-photos-comics-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/robocop-memory-daze-callsheets-scripts-photos-comics-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Robocop Memories- Callsheets, Scripts, Photos, Comics, Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"robocop,<\/a>In 1986 I was a new\u00a0freelancer in Dallas, TX, and was hired to assist with on-set\u00a0video playback for Robocop<\/strong>.\u00a0I had never been on a movie set prior to this, my experience limited to industrials, tabloid television and the like.\u00a0\u00a0This\u00a0was a new world for me. I’ve recently came\u00a0across a stash of items I had saved from those days- \u00a0callsheets, photos, scripts<\/strong>, etc., so I thought I’d post a few here. \u00a0 I ended up providing this “24 frame video service<\/strong>” to about 40 motion pictures shot in Texas throughout the mid-80’s to mid-90’s. At the bottom of the article is my video demo reel<\/strong><\/a> from my playback days.<\/p>\n

“Video Playback<\/strong>” was a position similar to music playback on a set. Except, I was working with\u00a0videotape or providing computer & camera feeds. These sources fed televisions, monitors or computer screens in the camera frame. \u00a0The sound department often pulled a feed from the video, and I was tasked with hitting the playback on cue with what the actors were doing on set. I also sychronized the film camera to the video.\u00a0The film camera had to be in-sync with the TV screens, or the 30 frame screens would flicker against the camera’s 24 frame shutter. Interfacing and controlling the camera dept’s raison d’etre<\/strong> \u00a0called for technical competence and diplomacy.<\/p>\n

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The Boardroom were Murphy blows away Jones. Notice ED209 hiding around the corner!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The VTR’s used to feed the boardroom monitors in the final scene.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sound Mixer Robert Wald’s, C.A.S. sound cart on the set of Robocop. Notice the FM radio headsets used for Comteks in 1986. Vega wireless, Stereo FM Pilot Nagra. This was the first “location sound cart” I had ever seen.<\/p><\/div>\n

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ED209- the life-size model present on the set of Robocop.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 2nd to last page of the Robocop script- boardroom scene<\/p><\/div>\n

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Last page of the Robocop script where Murphy shoots Jones in the boardroom.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Call Sheet from Robocop – 1986- hand-written in those days!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The primary cast of Robocop, as listed on the call sheet, with their call times.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A little set humor was added to each day’s call sheet on Robocop, 1986.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s the demo I would peddle to various productions when they came to Texas. “Need any video playback?” <\/strong>Productions were surprised when they learned the service was available in Texas!<\/p>\n