Tour of the new USC School of Cinematic Arts!
By Terry Keefe & Alex Simon, Photography and Videography by Gregory Weinkauf.
Spielberg and Lucas Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...MxUyWc&NR=1
Spielberg and Lucas Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...JyAwnI&NR=1
Back at the turn of the 90s, when we attended what was then known as the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California, we always considered our institution the best film school in the world and it was an easy argument to make. Buildings and production facilities with the names of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Johnny Carson, Harold Lloyd, and Marcia Lucas formed the centerpiece of the physical campus, and when these were dedicated back in 1983, it made international news. A somewhat forgotten fact of university cinema studies is that majoring in film wasn’t always considered to be a legitimate pursuit by many, but suddenly, the most state-of-the-art section of the USC Campus was its film program, a department which had previously shared space with the Trojan Band in a space known as “the stables.”
It was a great school, no doubt, but in fairness, there were other strong contenders for the title of best in the world at the time, including NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the venerable American Film Institute, on the graduate level. But after recently attending the dedication of the new campus of what is now known as the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), it was obvious that it will truly be difficult for any other school to compete with USC in the near future, at least facility-wise, because the new buildings which were unveiled to us were futuristic and a little mind-blowing. And there are still several more under construction.
The Hollywood Interview Full Article Part 1
The Hollywood Interview Full Article Part 2
The Hollywood Interview Full Article Part 3
Simply Amazing!
*Republished from TheHollywoodInterview.com
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