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Live Action Short Film FOR HIS SENIOR YEAR project at
film school,
After BRONCHO BILLY won the 1970 Academy Award for best live action short film, Longenecker arranged for Universal Studios to release the film theatrically, and the studio made over sixty 35mm prints and distributed the short on a double bill with its line-up of feature movies each week for more than two years in theaters across the United States and Canada. BRONCHO BILLY holds the record as Universal Studio's most financially successful live-action short film. -- Writing Short Scripts | Chapter
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when movie producer John Longenecker was a student here [at USC].
"It was very exciting and unique in the '60s," he said of the time
when USC was only one of a small handful of film schools in the country.
Longenecker made his mark here by winning an Academy Award while still a student.When George Lucas was still relatively unknown, he inspired Longenecker.
Lucas had been visiting campus one day in 1968 and Longenecker struck up a conversation.Lucas gave him this piece of advice: "He said that all the struggles with the cinema department
will be worth it if I can walk out of school with my film under my arm."Longenecker took those words to heart
and focused his efforts at making a short film while in school."I started off with a blank piece of paper with the intention
of writing a story and making a short film that would win an Oscar,
and I did," he said.His senior year project, "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy,"
won the Academy Award for live-action short film in 1970,
when he was only 23 years old. "Broncho Billy" holds the record
as Universal Studios' most financially successful live-action short film,
according to the book Writing Short Scriptsby William H. Phillips.Longenecker remembers having no stage fright that night
as he delivered his acceptance speech
with then-department chair Bernie Kantor at his side."Right now, it really doesn't matter much
that I got a "B" for this picture.
But no hard feelings, Dr. Kantor,"
Longenecker joked that night.
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That comment got a laugh from the audience, he said.Longenecker thinks that today's [USC] cinema-television school
is too institutionally entrenched."Back then we were more free spirited
and less cutthroat competitive," he said.
Older men dominated the movie industry, Longenecker said.
"It was a locked-up industry of adults," he said."That all changed with Spielberg and Lucas."
Some Film Schools -- like USC Cinema and AFI -- typically attempt to acquire the copyright to most films created by filmmakers who attend cinema courses.USC Cinema claimed to own the copyright to Broncho Billy in 1970. However, for The Resurrection Of Broncho Billy (1970) U.S. Copyright Law at that time provided that the copyright could be renewed during the 28th year after the film was first released -- in 1998 by an author of the film.
JOHN LONGENECKER
Renewed the Copyright in 1998
The Resurrection Of Broncho Billy
Copyright © Renewed 1998 by JOHN LONGENECKER
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We are now seeking ways to alert filmmakers who attend film schools like USC Cinema and AFI to hang on to the copyright to their original works of authorship, and not sign away all their rights as authors to film schools like USC.Filmmakers may simply enter to into licensing agreements
for distribution of their short films without transferring copyright ownership.What ought to be offered to film school students is insight into U.S. Copyright Law and an introduction to film industry guild and union agreements -- The Writers Guild Agreement -- The Directors Guild Agreement - The Screen Actors Guild Agreement along with business with respect to other guilds and unions.
Hang On To The Copyright to your original works of authorship!
Register you original story, treatment, script and
completed movie with the U.S. Copyright office.
US Copyright Office: http://copyright.gov/ |
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