Rusty Geller SOC operating the Disney twin-65mm 3D camero system in gear-head mode on Captain EO.
Career Develo ment
My Disney Years By Rusty Geller SOC
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THE OPERATING CAMERAMAN : RUSTY GEWR
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worked in the Walt Di ney tudjo pecial photographic effect department from 1981 to 1985. It wa an intere ting time in the company's history, a the old Di ney culture was pha ed into the new Hollywood reality. In the early '80 , Di ney tudjo wa being run by a corporate committee who hadn't come to grip with the fact that Walt was gone and wasn't coming back. They believed in the tatus quo and not rocking the boat. Within three year all had been replaced. Likewi e, mo t of my co-worker had pent their entire career at Di ney. They'd come up through the mail room or machjne shop, had run animation camera hooting cell for a decade, then had progre ed up to the " Proce Lab" run by the legendary Art ruik hank. Though competent technician , they only knew Di ney' in-hou e equipment, technique and procedures. My boss was Bob Broughton, who'd started in 1937 as an office boy on now White nnd the 7 Dwarfs and retired 47 year later as the head of the optical effect department. ¢