Homemade Filming Equipment

What If...? Stark Studios fails, they can simply throw the technology away. What If...? they succeed, they've accelerated the development of filmmaking technology and also gained a significant share of the profits.

Henry's contract with Tony Stark stipulated that he would own half of the patent rights and profits generated from the technology developed under his leadership.

While not all of them, legal issues and promotion both require the Stark Studios brand and public appearance, so taking half of the profits isn't unacceptable.

After all, this was practically free for Henry. He hadn't included anything like this in his original life plan.

Even if Henry wanted to set up his own company and monopolize everything, he would still have to pay legal and promotional costs, which would be even higher than half of what he would be given today.

Otherwise, how could they possibly accept such immense wealth while surrounded by wolves and tigers? They couldn't possibly rely on Kryptonian Iron Fist beat them all down one by one. Besides, if it really came down to fistfighting, they could just rob them directly; why bother with patents, technology, and trade?

Besides, there was a major event in the film industry in 1995.

Steve Jobs, who acquired Lucasfilm animation division in 1986, founded Pixar Animation Studios, which will release the computer-animated film Toy Story in 1995.

This is a project that Pixar Animation Studios has been working on with entertainment giant Disney since the 1990s.

Although Steve Jobs ' original intention was to promote his image processing computer, he wanted to sell hardware and compete with Apple, the company he founded but was ousted from, to redeem himself.

Who knew that things would turn out so unexpectedly? The profits from making an animated film would take forever to come from selling hardware alone. This forced Pixar to change course and abandon its core business of animation.

Now you know why Steve Jobs was willing to sell Pixar and desperately want to return to Apple. He couldn't compete with Disney in animation; hardware was his forte.

In short, this demonstrates that the integration of computers into the film industry is an irreversible trend. Moreover, after five years of refinement, Pixar Animation Studios has likely mastered considerable technology in computer-generated film conversion.

Fortunately, they were working on computer-animated films and hadn't really ventured into the digitization of film yet. But for Henry, who had entered this field on a whim, the sense of urgency that "time waits for no one" was all too clear.

So when Henry heard the equipment department manager's statement, which was practically a blatant plea to Tony Stark for help, Henry just smiled smugly.

"You don't think Mr. Tony Stark hired me just to collect a salary and do nothing, do you? I've already made some progress regarding the requirements for upgrading the photography equipment. Now we need everyone's collective wisdom to make things even better."

"The relevant equipment is in my car. When I visited the company earlier, I saw an unused photography studio. The equipment department staff can go and wait there, and have a few engineers observe as well. I'll take a few people back to my car to move things."

"Heads of other departments can proceed according to the decisions made at today's meeting; the relevant details are all in the ruling documents returned to you. If anyone is free and interested, they are welcome to observe from the photo studio as well."

Henry was also decisive. After issuing the instructions, he took away the administrative staff who were waiting outside the meeting room, leaving only one or two people to tidy up the meeting room.

A group of people pulled a trailer to the parking lot and unloaded the homemade filming equipment, including a projector, from Henry's Cadillac, which he had made to train Charlize Theron's acting skills.

However, instead of bringing the computer I made by hand, I installed the software on a Stark i486 computer that I bought more than four years ago, and brought it to the company as well.

When the group of people brought the equipment to the designated photography studio, almost all the executives who had been in the meeting room earlier had arrived. There were even a few extra people.

Today is a showcase of firepower, so Henry certainly won't deliberately send people back to their posts. Even if he doesn't need them to flatter him, he needs more people to spread the news about the new equipment.

Several bald engineers, their eyes lighting up, gathered around Henry's self-made device. Because many parts lacked casing and the connecting wires were exposed, it looked like an unfinished project.

But it is precisely this kind of mechanical equipment that attracts the engineers' attention the most. They are all in the habit of wanting to understand the equipment in front of them, and they can name the parts whose functions or brands they can recognize as if they were their own treasures.

After taking stock, they were surprised to find that the purpose of most of the parts on this homemade camera was something they didn't understand.

However, Henry didn't rush to explain. Instead, he personally set up the camera and connected the projector to the computer that had been brought over.

The office is not like home; it's not easy to find a white wall as a projection background. Fortunately, this is Stark Studios, a company that specializes in manufacturing film equipment. It was no problem to temporarily procure a projection screen from the warehouse.

By the time the curtain was set up, Henry had also finished assembling the equipment. He didn't let anyone else do it because it was easier for him to do it himself than to just teach them. There would be plenty of opportunities to study it later. Right now, everyone was more interested in seeing the results.

Once all the equipment was ready, Henry clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention. "Gentlemen, this is the digital photography equipment I developed myself at home."

"The videos will be stored on high-capacity hard drives used by regular computers, instead of film or tape. We can not only play them instantly, but also import them into computers for post-production."

"Now, let's ask a colleague to stand in front of the camera. We'll film a short clip, then play it back so everyone can see the effect. Anyone want to come up and be a model?"

The dream of showing off in front of the camera is something most people would want to try to some extent, let alone people working in a film company.

While the number of people raising their hands wasn't exactly overwhelming, at least Henry didn't have to specifically call on any unwilling fellow to perform.

A lucky guy stood in front of the camera. He looked around, unsure of what to do, and asked, "What should I do?"

Henry, who was filming next to the camera, asked, "Have you seen the movie Forrest Gump?"

"Yes, sir."

"Then let's use a line from 'Life is like a box of chocolates,' feel free to improvise."

The person in front of the camera immediately put on an expression that they thought was simple-minded, but which others actually saw as foolish, and spontaneously recited, "My mother always said that life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."

Surprisingly, this guy went on to make a lewd joke. Not only did the men in the room chuckle knowingly, but the women also laughed.

This is because the internet wasn't as developed in this era and didn't support video uploads. Otherwise, if this video of an idiot making lewd jokes were uploaded online, it would definitely cause a social media frenzy.