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    Windmill Rains For Atlantis

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    CLIENT

    Atlantis Resorts/Sun International.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    Windmill Lane Productions,

    Santa Monica.

    Meiert Avis, director; Daniel Pearl, DP; Ben Dossett, executive producer; Rocky Bice, producer. Shot on location in Paradise Island, the Bahamas.

    AGENCY

    Ground Zero, Marina del Rey, Calif.

    Kirk Souder, creative director; Court Crandall, creative director/copywriter; Monique Villette, executive producer; Heidi Hawkings, producer; Gavin Milner, art director.

    STOCK FOOTAGE

    Re:Search, New York.

    Kira Canepa, contact.

    Getty Images, Los Angeles.

    Doug Seger, contact.

    Talbot Productions,

    San Pedro, Calif.

    Charles Peck, contact.

    National Geographic, Seattle.

    Aimee Berger, contact.

    EDITORIAL

    Miss Jones, Santa Monica.

    Jim Rhoads, editor; Nage Canchola, assistant editor; Bronwen La Grue, executive producer.

    POST

    Pacific Data Post, Santa Monica.

    Paul Lear, colorist.

    R!OT, Santa Monica.

    Bob Festa, colorist.

    VISUAL EFFECTS

    Miss Jones.

    Kirk Cadrette, effects director; Robert Dahlin, Som Shankar, Val Sinlao and Lochlon Johnston, 3-D animation; Robert Trent and Ali Laventhol, Flame artists.

    AUDIO POST

    AudioBanks, Santa Monica.

    Brian Banks, mixer/engineer.

    MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN

    Elias Arts, bicoastal.

    Jimmy Haun, composer/sound designer; David Gold, creative director; Ann Haugen, producer.

    THE SPOT

    "Cycle of H20" (:60) opens with children dancing in the street of a city, under the spray of a fire hydrant. A girl twirls her head and water droplets fly off—one filled with an image of her face. The scene dissolves to an underwater view looking up to a bridge, then swoops across the sea to view the Atlantis hotel as a dolphin leaps into the air. Next, a person slides down the water chute of the hotel’s Aztec pyramid and zooms through the underwater tube in the resort’s aquatic shark pool, as schools of fish and a giant manta ray swim past the camera. Scenes of a Jules Verne-like underwater Atlantis and the ceiling in the hotel’s reception area fly by, leading to an aerial view of the Paradise Island hotel, before shifting to shots of a storm off a city skyline. Finally a girl is shown sitting on a city stoop as large raindrops fall. She holds out her hand and a drop splashes onto it, with a droplet stopping on her fingertip, containing the image of the Atlantis hotel.

    Spot broke Nov. 12.

    Category:ScreenWork



    “Beatles ’64” Documentary Captures Intimate Moments From Landmark U.S. Visit

    Thursday, November 28, 2024

    Likely most people have seen iconic footage of the Beatles performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." But how many have seen Paul McCartney during that same U.S. trip feeding seagulls off his hotel balcony?

    That moment — as well as George Harrison and John Lennon goofing around by exchanging their jackets — are part of the Disney+ documentary "Beatles '64," an intimate look at the English band's first trip to America that uses rare and newly restored footage. It streams Friday.

    "It's so fun to be the fly on the wall in those really intimate moments," says Margaret Bodde, who produced alongside Martin Scorsese. "It's just this incredible gift of time and technology to be able to see it now with the decades of time stripped away so that you really feel like you're there."

    "Beatles '64" leans into footage of the 14-day trip filmed by documentarians Albert and David Maysles, who left behind 11 hours of the Fab Four goofing around in New York's Plaza hotel or traveling. It was restored by Park Road Post in New Zealand.

    "It's beautiful, although it's black and white and it's not widescreen," says director David Tedeschi. "It's like it was shot yesterday and it captures the youth of the four Beatles and the fans."

    The footage is augmented by interviews with the two surviving members of the band and people whose lives were impacted, including some of the women who as teens stood outside their hotel hoping to catch a glimpse of the Beatles.

    "It was like a crazy love," fan Vickie Brenna-Costa recalls in the documentary. "I can't really understand it now. But then, it was natural."

    The film shows the four heartthrobs flirting and dancing at the Peppermint Lounge disco, Harrison noodling with a Woody Guthrie riff on his guitar... Read More

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