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[ 34K ] Radio Free Roscoe, the hit TV series for youth airing on Noggin (USA) and Family Channel (Canada), is set in the world of underground radio and has spawned fans of the indie music that appears on the show. The Internet carries several fan web sites dedicated to the show. DOP for the series' four seasons is George Hosek csc, shown here on the high school set in Toronto.

[ 28K ] DOP Michael Balfry csc says Season 4 of the HDTV series Dead Zone "is humming along at a very rapid pace" in Vancouver, and this photo provides an indication of how fast things can get on location. "Yet another way to get a quick low-angle shot," says Balfry, is this camera-rigged ATV, with steadi-op Lou Gruzelier out in front, dolly grip Craig Munroe at the wheel and grip Wally Nygren in the rear. Photo: Shane Harvey

[ 14K ] Ron Stannett csc joined three other ranking cinematographers in London to shoot a test for the new Fujifilm ETERNA500 stock. His colleagues were Phedon Papamichael asc (Sideways), British DOP Sue Gibson (Hear My Song) and the renowned Jack Cardiff bsc (The African Queen). Here, Stannett (right) poses with Gibson and Cardiff in front of a plaque honouring Cardiff.	[ 31K ] Ron Stannett csc used only a bounce board, held by gaffer Paul Borg, to shoot a daylight exterior for the ETERNA500 test. He used no artificial lighting in the park scene. "I wanted to see what the stock would do by itself, and it did very well."
[ 31K ] Ron Stannett's crew sets up for a tracking shot in a park adjacent to Pinewood Studios in London.	[ 48K ] Peter Wunstorf was DOP on the Warner Brothers/ABC pilot Kat Plus 1 in Vancouver for 12 days in mid-March. The camera crew (from left): Rick Allen, Don Saari, Rob Duncan, Peter Wunstorf, Simon Jori, Dave Dubdin and Richard Sinclair.
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(Left) Chicago film crew (from left) A-camera operator Peter Rosenfeld, B-cam operator Roger Finlay, focus puller Mark Cyre, and DOP Dion Beebe acs. (Right) Peter Rosenfeld photographs Richard Gere and Renée Zellweger on the steadicam during the musical number Razzle Dazzle. Photo: Mark Manchester
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Vancouver DOP Danny Nowak csc, prepping for a March 17 start to a shoot in Thailand, got to visit some "amazing locations" like the Great Palace in Bangkok. "Unfortunately," he said, "the next two months are the hottest season."
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John Banovich csc at work on two different shoots with a Sony F900A HD camera. At left he is shown with 1st AC Chris Oben, and at right with 2nd AC Robyn Moore. Banovich, of White Rock, B.C., received the 2002 Telly Award for writing and directing the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) commercial Infinite Shoes, a hard look at the growing problem of drinking and driving. The filmmaker also received the 2002 Aurora Award for directing and shooting the MADD commercial.
[ 44K ] CAMERA OPERATOR Rod Crombie and 1st AC Rita Jansons on the set of the TV series The Associates. Photo: Don Angus	[ 40K ] RECESSED LIGHTING fixtures in a hallway on the set of The Associates were modified by the set designer, at the suggestion of Phil Earnshaw csc, to rotate into fluorescent lamps for shooting in the corridor. Now you see them, now you don't. Photo: Don Angus
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LIFE IS A BEACH: It wasn't all hard work for Harry Lake csc when he travelled to Cuba for a commercial shoot. He got to bask in the sun from atop his camera jib at a beach resort, and then charm four local models. The shoot, for a hotel chain called Sol Melia, was on Cayo Largo, which Harry said was "about 35 minutes from Havana on an old Russian paratrooper plane." He added that "the lodgings were excellent and the crew was very obliging, although they don't have all the extra little gadgets we've become used to. But all went well even though they couldn't understand me nor I them." Director Madi Piller (CSC associate) interpreted. "I didn't know I was going till Madi called me from Havana on Saturday and said, 'Can you come down here tomorrow?'" The shoot, with an Arri 3, was over four days.
[ 21K ] GABOR TARKO csc and director Madi Piller (CSC affiliate) on the set of an Irwin Toy commercial.
[ 31K ] MARC CHARLEBOIS csc is behind the camera on the Montreal set of the Canadian feature Cafe Ole.	[ 27K ] RON STANNETT csc on the disco set of the series The Immortal in Vancouver.
[ 34K ] CAMERA WORKSHOP: Class is in session at the CSC film camera workshop at PS Production Services in Toronto Nov. 18-19/2000. From left are student Polly Morgan, chief instructor Lance Carlson, student Gabriel Teran, Jack Mosor of PS and student Mary Thompson. Photo: Don Angus	[ 26K ] THE BIG FREEZE: Bob Lynn (left) and Mike Sinclair of William F. White Toronto stand in front of an array of 35mm Nikon F-60 cameras that make up The Big Freeze, demonstrated at White's on Nov. 15/2000. Photo: Don Angus
[ 30K ] LIGHTS LESSON: Course director Lance Carlson (left) and instructor Brad Dickson, CBC lighting director, answer questions at the CSC Lighting Workshop on Jan. 13-14/2001 at PS Toronto. Photo: Don Angus	[ 36K ] Carey Williams, a Chicago motion picture equipment collector, is shown with three pioneer cameras he brought to Toronto for scenes in the CBC TV series Foreign Objects. The hand-cranked 35mm cameras, all in working order, are (from left) the second Akeley ever built, an Urban Bioscope, and a Pathe Freres camera that was used to shoot period sequences in the 1999 Hollywood feature Magnolia. Photo: Don Angus
[ 14K ] VRROOOM! Madi Piller and Harry Lake csc try out William F. White's chase bike. Oops, does Harry have both eyes closed? Photo: Don Angus	[ 31K ] DOP Luc Montpellier csc on the set of the CBC TV series Foreign Objects. Photo: Don Angus
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ROLLING: For the Disney Channel's bowling movie Alley Cats Strike, DOP Peter Benison csc and operator Glenn Warner used some inventive gear to keep their camera's eye on the ball. In these photos, Benison checks the clearance of the ball under the camera on "The Railroad" rig, while Warner dons a precautionary helmet for the inaugural run of the "Push-Pull" rig, also shown guiding a ball down the alley.
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VIRTUAL SHOOTING: CSC members Bill Metcalfe and Carolyn Wong, assisted by Jasper Vrakking of David J. Woods Productions, "fly" a video camera on the Weaver Steadman arm of a Z-Jib. Photos: Don Angus