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Here’s Lee Hopp!

Lee Hopp brings years of knowledge and experience working on commercials, TV shows and feature films. He started working in the film industry in 1977. His start was as a production assistant where he fell in love with camera work. In 1979 he was hired by General Camera (Panavision of NY) and worked there as a camera technician for 2 years. He became a camera assistant and was hired by Sandbank Films as Henry Sandbank’s assist cameraman for 5 years. In 1986, Lee started Playback System, a Video Assist rental company. He ran the company for 20 years until 2006.

Where It All Began…

Article by Lee Hopp Back in the day when film was used, the only person on a movie set who could view the action through the lens was the camera operator. He was so important that he would tell the Director if they had the shot, other than the acting. They would then have to send the film to the lab and see what the shot looked like a day after the scene was shot. One day the actor Jerry Lewis was Directing and Acting in a movie and he needed to see what the scene looked like after he