Paul Korver

Paul Korver (born November 18, 1971) is an American filmmaker, producer, and entrepreneur who currently resides in Los Angeles. With early turns as an actor in his twenties,^[1] in 2002 he returned to his early love of cinematography^[2] founding Fifty Foot Films and later Cinelicious.

Acting career

Korver had a part in the CHiPs reunion movie in 1998 playing Officer Peter Roulette. Paul Korver played Christopher Hughes II on the long running soap opera, As the World Turns from 1999 to March of 2001, shot in New York. Korver replaced Ben Jorgenson as Chris Hughes in 1999. When Korver departed in 2001, Alan White took over his spot as Chris Hughes. Korver played Lieutenant Peyton Styles in the 2001 movie The Painting. Korver played Casey Whitehouse in Legally Blonde a 2003 TV Movie. ^[3]Korver played Rodger in Dog Gone Love in 2004. ^[4][5][6]

Fifty Foot Films

Founded in 2002 by Paul Korver, Fifty Foot Films is "a Hollywood-based company that is dedicated to fixing major life events on film", a rare move which "many videographers regard as too risky, sensitive, and pricey to be profitable."^[7] Four years later on November 15, 2016, the New York Times chronicled the startup and success of the company in its Small Business section, called Here Comes the Celluloid: Marrying Life Events With Film. Cinematographer Paul Korver's Fifty Foot Films as recorded some high profile marriages like: Christina Aguilera & Jordan Bratman, Mike Piazza & Alicia Rickter, Jessica Capshaw & Christopher Gavigan, Stephanie March & Bobby Flay and Mariska Hargitay & Peter Hermann. Paul Korver's first wedding film was for friends, Marley Shelton and Beau Flynn. Paul Korver's Fifty Foot Films got its names as there are 50 feet of film in a Super 8 film movie cartridge. Paul also later used 16 mm film and 35mm film to record events. Paul Korver's Fifty Foot Films has done shoots all around the world, from Dubai to Tokyo.^[8][9][10]

Cinelicious' 4K Scanity

Cinelicious

In 2008 Korver started a Hollywood post-production company Cinelicious and "has his sights set on leading a post-production renaissance in Hollywood." Cinelicious owned and operated a Spirit DataCine for a number of years, before upgrading to a Scanity in 2011.^[11] Paul Korver's Cinelicious works in a number of formats, like 16mm, Super 8 mm film and 35mm, including 4K resolution film preservation, original film and digital intermediate, commercials, 4K feature film and television shows. At Cinelicious Korver as servered as the digital intermediate supervisor on number of films.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] [19]}

Cinelicious was part of the restoration of the TV series Death Valley Days, restoring 458 half-hour film episodes in 2013 and 2014. The original show was funded by Pacific Coast Borax Company and the restoration is part of US Borax Film Archives. Cinelicious worked with Rio Tinto Group and US Borax, in preserving the TV series. The 16mmm and 35mm Death Valley Days film was scanned at 4k on the Scanity. The Scanity infrared CCD channel was used for dirt mapping to be used downstream with a scratch removal system, PF Clean.^{[20] [21][22][23][24]}

In September 2013 Cinelicious acquires High Hat Post in Santa Monica, California. High Hat is an advanced digital restoration house, that now benefits working with a scanning company.^[25][26][27]

In 2014, with former head programmer of the American Cinematheque, Dennis Bartok, Korver launched a distribution offshoot of Cinelicious called Cinelicious Pics. Cinelicious Pics is now the distribution wing of the post-production company Cinelicious.^[28]

Early life

Paul Korver was born November 18, 1971 in Hartville, Ohio to Gig and Marilyn Korver. Paul moved to Bellevue, Washington when he was five and moved to Pleasanton, California when he was 12. Korver graduated from Amador Valley High School and University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in anthropology in 1997.^[29][30][31]

See also

• History of film
• Studio zone
• Packard Humanities Institute
• UCLA Film and Television Archive
• Wedding photography

References