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- Birth nameMilton Altman
- Milt Altman was born on January 13, 1920 in Hungary. Milt is known for The Julie Andrews Show (1965). Milt died on July 6, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- NBC Burbank Production Services was shared by Milt Altman with Gino Conte, who supervised the technical facilities which included the construction shop, the special effects department, the staging facilities (carpenters #33, scenic artists #816, stagehands #33, lighting #33), and the warehouse division under Johnny Rose #33. Transportation services was under Gino Conte's as well.
- As head Art Department manager of NBC Burbank, his department included the following: the graphics area under Art Trugman, the Costume and wardrobe department, under Angie Jones, and he supervised the Art Directors, hiring the staff of designers under his jurisdiction.
- Milt Altman was promoted from the NBC Burbank graphics department to the position of director of the NBC art department. While in this position, he was interested in and participated in the electronics development of the chroma-key effects system. In the electronic system, blue is the easiest color wave length to video tape a person or performer, which the performer is in front of a camera lens, backed by an intense mid value bright blue background. Another background picture layer feed replaces the intense blue background, transposing the performer on top of the second picture plane. Both make-up and wardrobe hue (color & tint) are critical in the process. The electronic system is red, blue and green. There are occasions when the background should be either red or green, instead of blue. The color electronic wave length transmission establishes the color choice between the three chroma system. The color system is also used in a film-camera blue screen process, but DP's prefer the green screen in the editing process. Again, the required elements determine the background color. In television terms, usually the chroma-key blue process is used for traveling background plates of moving scenery (traveling on horse-back, riding in a train or automobile). The system replaces the filming technique of a performer in front of a background screen for rear projection process film. This process requires the length and distance behind the screen for the projector's moving image size and projection scale in terms of the light throw.
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