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Colin Powers reflects on PBS programming for the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, & Quebec, public broadcasting, and the future of media distribution.

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A little late, but a nice glimpse at how we made last year’s documentary

April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation

This nice article described a little about our production of Forgotten War. The photographer was an intern how worked with us for several months.

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Green Screen Crazy!

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, PBS

Mountain Lake used green screen technology to great effect in our recent documentary “Forgotten War” (all the interviews) and continue to use it in studio on a pretty frequent basis. What many of us don’t realize is just how many “Hollywood” projects rely on virtual sets & green screen to complete their shots. Check out [...]

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Bragging rights…

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation, Multi-media

Sort of a blatant “toot” of our own horn, but I couldn’t resist… We just posted to the Mountain Lake PBS YouTube page two clips showing off our beautiful graphics and effects work on Forgotten War. The short one is embedded here, the five minute one is here. Also, we have some new history minutes [...]

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A weekend of great programming – Don’t miss it!

December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation

A new Collector’s Edition DVD of Castle in Every Heart: The Arto Monaco Story is offered tomorrow night (Dec 4th) at 8:00 PM on a special broadcast featuring Producer Derek Muirden and regional guests recalling the Land of Makebelieve. The Program re-airs Saturday (Dec 5th) at 9:00 PM,  Sunday (Dec 6th) at 4:00 PM and [...]

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Forgotten War gets great numbers!!!

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Illustration - Animation, PBS, PBS Distribution

Forgotten War (see ealier post) will be uplinked to the PBS network on November 29th in both Standard and High Definition.  American Public Television reports that 205 stations (96 licensees) voted YES for coverage that equals 68% of the nation’s TV markets!  The list includes three of the biggest PBS stations around: WNET13, WGBH – Boston, and [...]

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Forgotten War going national

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Illustration - Animation, PBS, PBS Distribution

The one hour doc on the French & Indian War we just finished at Mountain Lake PBS has been offered to the PBS system by American Public Television one of the three major distributors to the PBS system (who, by the way, have the best guide to the tech side of producing for PBS that [...]

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