On this day in movie history - Los Angeles: City of Film Noir (2015)

 

Los Angeles: City of Film Noir
a.k.a. Los Angeles: Cité du Film Noir

documentary directed and written by Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg,

was released in France on February 28, 2015.

 
Cast:
James Ellroy, Eddie Muller, Alain Silver.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958)

M Squad
Season 1. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: The Black Mermaid.

Released February 28, 1958.

Directed by David Rich.

Written by James Edward Grant and Harry W. Junkin.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

 
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Marcia Henderson, Biff Elliot, Paul Newlan, Harry Bartell, Arthur Hanson, Stanley Adams, Eddie Ryder, Elizabeth Harrower.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Star Trek, Voyager, Discovery

Star Trek (1969)
Star Trek: Voyager (2001)
Star Trek: Discovery (2019)
 

Star Trek
Season 3. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: The Cloud Minders.

Released February 28, 1969.

Directed by Jud Taylor.

Written by Margaret Armen, David Gerrold, Oliver Crawford, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Jeff Corey, Diana Ewing, Charlene Polite, Kirk Raymond, Jimmy Fields, Ed Long, Fred Williamson, Garth Pillsbury, Harv Selsby, Bill Blackburn, Louie Elias, Dick Geary, Jay D. Jones, Bob Miles, Marvin Walters.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 7. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Workforce, Part II.

Released February 28, 2001.

Directed by Roxann Dawson.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor, Bryan Fuller, Robert Doherty, Phyllis 

Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, James Read, Don Most, John Aniston, Tom Virtue, Robert Joy, Jay Harrington, Michael Behrens, Joseph Will, Matthew/Matt J. Williamson, Damara Reilly, Majel Barrett, Carlo Antonazzo, John Austin, Mario Carter, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Ken Gruz, Joyce Lasley, Dennis Madalone, Mark Major, Robert Mammana, Iona Morris, James Pearson, Stephen Pisani, Akemi Royer, Richard Sarstedt, Pablo Soriano, John Alex Tampoya, Lisa Vanasco.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 2. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Light and Shadows.

Released February 28, 2019.

Directed by Marta Cunningham.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Ted Sullivan, Vaun Wilmott, Kirsten Beyer, Sean Cochran.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Shazad Latif, Anson Mount, Michelle Yeoh, James Frain, Mia Kirshner, Ethan Peck, Alan Van Sprang, Hannah Cheesman, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Julianne Grossman, Arista Arhin, Liam Hughes.

On this day in television history - Justified (2012)

Justified
Season 3. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: The Man Behind the Curtain.

Released February 28, 2012.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost, Ryan Farley, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Ingrid Escajeda, Ryan Farley and Jon Worley.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Raymond J. Barry, Jere Burns, David Andrews, Jim Beaver, David Meunier, Max Perlich, William Ragsdale, Stephen Tobolowsky, Demetrius Grosse, Jenn Lyon, Cleavon McClendon, Mykelti Williamson, Neal McDonough, David Atkinson, Michael Boucher, LaQuita Cleare, Kathleen M. Darcy, Elena Evangelo, Brandon Ford Green, Audra Griffis, Steven Helmkamp, Jonathan Kowalsky, William Gregory Lee, Brendan McCarthy, Van White, Garland Whitt, Chaz Maas.

On this day in music history - The album Transcendence, by Sherry Finzer (2020)

Transcendence

by Sherry Finzer

was released on February 28, 2020.

Track list:

The Ascent; Third Eye Opening; Veil of the Unknown; Inner Awakening; Meditative, relaxing, soothing, contemplative, cinematic, flutes, calming, relaxing - Ancient Roots; Evening Prayer; Winds of Intuition; Elements of Light.

Sam Horn, on writing:

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book.
They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

- Sam Horn.

Recommended reading - In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

 

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

by Walter Murch (2001)

Foreword by Francis Ford Coppola.

Published by Silman-James Press.
2nd edition.

Published 2001.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1879505622
ISBN-13: 978-1879505629
 
Description:

In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more. In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises his popular first edition's lengthy meditation on digital editing (which accounts for a third of the book's pages) in light of the technological changes that have taken place in the six years since its publication.