Photo of the week

February 1971 – This was a test for a Volkswagon television commercial set up and animated by David Allen at Cascade Pictures in Hollywood. David also built the Kong stop motion model. Rear screen process projection was used for this test but for the actual job a photographic enlargement was employed. Fay Wray's daughter was hired to appear in the final commercial.

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PHOTO OF THE WEEK : 6/06/05

Cascade_v001 : This is an advertisement that Cascade Pictures put together to show the
creative talent pool at Stage 6. Stage 6 was the home of the animation and visual effects division of Cascade Pictures of California. I think this photo was taken about 1975.
Standing to the right is Jim Danforth; lying down in front is Dennis Muren; sitting in the middle row from left to right are Bill Hedge, Laine Liska and Mike Minor; back row left to right are David Allen, Ken Ralston, Tom Scherman, Harry Walton and David Stipes.
Cascade was an amazing place to work at the time, it was the largest commercial production studio in the world. It was like a miniature MGM studios in that it was fully self sufficient. It had these departments : casting, editorial, post production, optical department, cell animation department, sound recording, live action sound stages, stop motion and effects department, machine shop, prop shop, set construction and more. If you wanted to, you could learn all phases of motion picture production at this company.