User:T.sawicki

Greetings and salutations, my name is Ted Sawicki and I am a filmaker, television producer from Hollywood, California. I own and operate Delta Productions that I formed in 1977. My late business partner, Brian J. King Jr. was instrumental in moving me to Hollywood from New Haven, Connecticut. I studied film at the Un School, making films in Super 8MM, went to Paire Art College, Hamden, CT, and wandered the Yale University campus. (Linsey Chitten Hall screening room, Yale Law School Film Society and the Architect Arts film department)

During the 1960's and 1970's, the motion picture industry suffered a major slump and production at times were at a stand still. The Twentieth Century Fox Studio back lot was a goast town, the commisary closed and financially in disaray which led off to selling the majority of the real estate. (which is known today as Century City) The Walt Disney Company was on the brink of bankruptcy and had not produced films of any merit. Metro Goldwyn Meyer studio was closed and out of business. In the late 1970's Sony and JVC introduced the 1/2" videocasette recorder, BetaMax and VHS respectively.  The rest is history as this invention (Ampex Corporation, Burbank, California with the hellical flying spot scanner, licensed this technology to the Japanese Victor Corporation)  The public fell in love with the idea of recording and playing television and soon the motion picture industry took note.   Along came pre-recorded feature films that can be purchased for personal home use.  The ressession/depression of the industry was over and investment bankers were eager to finance future productions.   At this time cable televison came on the scene as well.  The major Hollywood studios became cash flush in a matter of months.   Opening the vaults to master the 35MM negatives to video tape created a windfall of cash that is unfounded until this day.