$1.5 Million Domino Film Compositor Donated to School of Cinema-Television
The Domino system, which consists of a film scanner, workstation and film recorder, is the industry leader for creating special effects in feature films, including Independence Day, the 1996 Oscar-winner for visual effects.
"With 70 percent of movies using digital effects, the future of filmmaking is going to be very much affected by digital technology," said Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the cinema-television school.
"When students graduate from USC, they start working in Hollywood immediately. What's exciting about our new Domino is that our students will now be able to use one of the most sophisticated digital effects tools in the industry. In time, I expect some of the seasoned users of Domino in the industry will be USC film school graduates," Daley said.
Domino scans and converts film images to a digital format, allowing the images to be manipulated and converted back to film resolution without affecting visual quality. Dominos are used for crowd replication, scene salvage, cloning, wire removal and color correction, among other imaging techniques.
"It's nice to give something back to the entertainment industry," said Ken Ellis, chief executive officer of Quantel in Darien, Conn. "We feel a great place to contribute Quantel's technology is with our youth. USC is the perfect home for Domino, and it will provide USC students with new opportunities when they enter the entertainment work force."
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The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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