AMERICAN
ZOETROPE
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Tour: Howie Stein takes us below the street to the basement studio
at American Zoetrope.
Click on the image to see the movie (8.4 Mbytes).
The audio archives hold all of the 1/4" audio masters from all the films Francis Coppola has made over the last 25 years.
The
Wonder Down Under
A quick elevator ride down with Howie brings you to the studios basement
screening and mixing room. The basement mixing room is used to do temp
mixes on feature films, and full mixes on documentaries and other small
productions. Unlike most San Francisco-based production facilities,
American Zoetrope's focus is on feature film production.
They also have other rooms and facilities and services that they rent out to other directors and studios.One of the most recent projects at the studio was Bicentennial Man, a Disney feature film directed by Chris Columbus and starring Robin Williams (both bay area residents). In the near-by suite of cutting rooms, Bicentennial Man had been in production since early in 1999.
Once Zoetrope has a show in-house, they roll out a variety of production services for that project, everything from telecine of dailies, temp mixes, sound transfers, screenings, equipment and so on.
Zoetrope also has a full board audio mixing facility in Rutherford, California, which is wonderfully ensconced among the beautiful vineyards in Napa Valley. Recently the Zoetrope mixing facility was used for MGM's space epic, Supernova, which was recut at Zoetrope studios, and then mixed at the Rutherford mixing facility.