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Roger and James Deacons joined by Matt Wyman starting from a submitted question, and ending, who knows where.

We're also joined by guests on occasion.

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So today we're joined by Matt Wyman and we also have a special guest.

She is the goddess of post, a very special guest. She is the goddess of post, a very well known name in

Hollywood, and she's been a great friend of ours for many many years and we've

worked with her on so many films and she has taken the

journey with us from film to digital. So we want to welcome Bev Wood. Thank you Bev for being here.

And Bev, if you could tell us a little bit about yourself.

Well, it's nice to be here. In a nutshell, I entered the motion picture business in the early 80s, working for Kodak, and was lucky enough to get transferred out to the west coast. I worked in San Francisco with small laboratories.

I was an analytical chemist as far as schooling was concerned and I was looking at

process streams for efficiency for Kodak as well as working with

cinematographers helping laboratories troubleshoot problems. When I got transferred down to Los Angeles,

MGM, which used to have a laboratory called Metricolor, was my first major

account and after three or four years they hired me away from Kodak and I went to work for them looking at their process streams.

Again, calling on problems in the laboratory, which included meeting cinematographers as they

were in the middle of shooting a movie.

And then I was lucky enough to go to Deluxe, which is a large, much larger laboratory, and I began to do the same thing,

to try to create efficiency within the laboratory as far as the process streams are concerned.

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