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By LEE CLONTZ
Staff Writer
Everyone who pursues a major
in media arts hopes to become successful,
but few even dream of attaining
the level of success reached
by 1980 USC graduate Dan
Kneece.
For the quality of his cinematography,
he received the 1991 College
of Applied Professional Sciences
Alumni Award Friday Night.
His illustrious credits include
Dying Young, Days of Thunder,
Tales from the Crypt, Star Trek VI
and Freddy's Dead: the Final
Nightmare. His job consists primarily
of specialty shots involving
the Steadicam, a device that allows
a camera operator to hand hold a
camera while maintaining a steady
image. I
His success began while still in
college, when he became the first I
person to graduate from USC with
an animated thesis film. The film, "
Sarah, was greeted with acclaim.
"It was made with wax on glass Be
plates ... it was really, really bi- a
zarre. It got a regional nomination be
for a student Academy Award, and in
it opened the Los Angeles Anima- sh
tion Festival," Kneece said. dc
Kneece, who started off in the
College of Pharmacy, eventually jj)
realized film was his true calling.
He shot news with WIS-TV during y(
graduate school, and gained a love y(
for animation. After graduating, he y(
started an animation company pro- ye
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with that, I went to Meaaicam hi
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of Blue Velvet in 1986.
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"Sometimes we don't choose anyone
(to receive the award), so it's
quite an honor to be chosen," said
Media Arts department chairwoman
Dr. Sandra Wertz.
Despite the frustrations, Kneece
contends that his profession is
worth great amounts of trouble.
"Sometimes after carrying aroung
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you just want to quit. . . then you
see the finished film and . . . most
of the time, it's incredible,"
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At the summons of your
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You are then faced with the
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school ? why all the shiny, colorized,
modern flicks that have
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Or, you might find that some
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Rebecca ? Just about Alfred
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10 minutes. Laurence Olivier
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class noble consumed by the
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Patton ? A General of extraordinary
ability and one of the
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history. George C. Scott makes
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the Germans feared most Karl
Maiden also stars in 1969's
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A young "punk"
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class. I could have been a contender."
Karl Maiden and Rod
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Bernstein composed the music to
the movie honored as Best Picture
in 1954.
Bridge on the River Kwai ?
Famed director Sir David Lean's
most accessible film, also his
best. Combines and explores human
psychological will and
prison drama in a unique war
film. Captured British soldiers in
WWII are forced to build a
bridge in Burma, which becomes
a test of wills between a British
commanding officer and their Japanese
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