Bonus Interview with Al Giddings

Blockbuster

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Bonus Interview. BLOCKBUSTER series creator Matt Schrader asks underwater cinematography pioneer Al Giddings about working with James Cameron on The Abyss, filming the documentary that inspired Titanic, and his dangerous dives to the ocean floor with James. This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios. If you enjoyed BLOCKBUSTER, please consider a small donation to help the creators continue making this series at http://GetBlockbuster.com/support and receive bonus perks, and your name in the credits! Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlockbusterPod Twitter: http://twitter.com/Blockbuster_Pod Instagram: http://instagram.com/blockbusterpod Follow series creator @MattSchrader on Twitter 🏆 BLOCKBUSTER is now an award-winning podcast! Winner of Adweek's Creative Podcast of the Year, two NYF Radio Awards, and Webby Awards Honoree for Best Miniseries. Thanks in advance for sharing BLOCKBUSTER with a friend! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Schrader and this is a special bonus interview episode of Blockbuster joining me today.
0:09.9	Or rather, I'm joining him here at his home in Northern California is the most prolific
0:14.7	underwater cinematographer maybe in all of history.
0:18.4	Al Gettings, Al, thanks for having us here with you.
0:21.0	My pleasure, Matt.
0:22.0	You heard Al going on dives to the Titanic with James Karen, some of which almost ended in
0:28.2	disaster.
0:29.2	So I want to ask you about some of those.
0:31.4	Al has also directed groundbreaking documentaries.
0:34.2	I think your first was mysteries of the sea, Bill Holden narrated, Emmy award winning documentary
0:41.2	director for that and also worked on major motion pictures that filmed underwater.
0:45.4	Obviously, Titanic, but also the abyss, a couple James Bond films.
0:50.1	First I want people to know a little bit about your beginnings.
0:53.1	You started diving in your late teens early 20s up here in Northern California.
0:57.8	Probably not too far from from where we are.
1:00.9	What first made you want to take a camera into the ocean?
1:06.0	In those early days, everyone was shooting with a spear gun up and down the coast.
1:12.3	The big sort of accomplishment was a spearing link cod and diving frablonies and so on.
1:19.7	And what I saw was so stunning.
1:23.3	The undersea world was so untapped and so, so very stunning.
1:29.4	They cut for us and someone I thought wouldn't it be interesting to shoot with a camera?
1:35.0	And so very early on, I bought an Argus C3 matchmatic, an old 35 millimeter still camera and
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