An Update on the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 115, No. 9, pp. 349–358
Abstract: This paper is another installment in a long line of presentations before this Society, describing the technical activities of a transitory and migrating entity known by such names as the Producers-Technicians Committee, the Academy Research Council, the Motion Picture Research Center, the Technology Council, and now the Academy Science and Technology Council. First discussed in a paper delivered to the Society of Motion Picture Engineers—no “T” in there yet—in 1929 by famed producer and visionary Irving Thalberg, and most recently before SMPTE in 1998 by visual effects pioneer and Academy governor Jonathan Erland, the “Council” has been an integral and important part of the motion picture industry's evolution as an art form and the dominant out-of-home group entertainment medium. This paper reviews the history behind the Council and provides an update on its current activities.
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/J16156
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J16156
Author(s): Andrew Maltz
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Andrew Maltz has been involved with entertainment technology management, business development and system design for over 25 years. As the first director of the Academy's new Science and Technology Council, Maltz was responsible for initiating the Council's operations, and developing and implementing its operational plan. The Council is charged with monitoring the current state of technology, presenting educational programs on the technology of motion pictures, developing a database of the history of film technology, and acting as a resource for the Academy on technology matters. Previous to the Academy, Maltz was CEO of Avica Technology Corp., where he led the first worldwide commercial deployment of digital cinema servers, drove the development of key technologies for digital cinema such as encryption, compression, mastering and distribution, and was heavily involved with the digital releases of many major motion pictures in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Previous to Avica, Maltz served for five years as a consultant to companies such as Microsoft and Sharp Electronics Corp., where, among other things, he spearheaded the development of the Advanced Authoring Format. Maltz received a BSEE from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is an active member of SMPTE and an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Copyright: © 2006 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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