Ron Gulette
- Writer
- Transportation Department
Born in Detroit, Michigan. He was interested in movies at an early age,
but didn't take the profession seriously until after high school
graduation. Directing Film was his goal.
He moved to Southern California in 1985 to pursue a career in the film industry, starting at Columbia College-Hollywood when it was still located on LaBrea in Hollywood.
Graduated with a B.A. in Cinema in 1989, and worked on several low budget films, including his only credit to date: The Banker.
He worked at Alan Gordon Enterprises, as an account executive, where he learned more about the process of film making by learning all of the equipment that was rented out from the Company.
He went to work for Gallin Morey Associates, a top end management company as a messenger. Also worked with SandDollar Productions at the same time - owned by Sandy Gallin and Dolly Parton. Learned all he could there, about the real business of the film and music industries, until he realized it as a dead-end job.
Went to work at Dubs, Inc in Hollywood as a scheduling auditor, verifying the technical specs for video tape duplication. After a year, it was time to move on.
Started working for Sunset Post continuing the position of auditor, but as final quality control. Several months into the job Ron noticed a computer-aided restoration suite call DRS (Digital Restoration Services) - created by Mathematical Technologies, Inc, in Providence, Rhode Island - being used by one of the employees. Curious about it, he sat down and watched the process. More intrigued by it, he sat down during his off-hours to learn more about the system. It fit like a glove for his nature.
About a month later, Ron was asked by the Salesman, and the Management to use the system to fix a film scratch. The system was slow, but Ron's intimate knowledge of film, gave him insight into how to speed it up and he spoke those insights to the programs developer. After a couple of days work, the scratch-repair process was shortened from ~1.25 minutes per frame to 20 seconds per frame. The job was completed and the customer was thrilled.
Another month went by before Ron had another chance to fix a film: "The Hunt for Red October". The Paramount Post-production Executive was angered by a shoddy job of repair on a film splice. Ron was confident that he could fix the problem in fifteen minutes, and did so to the surprise of the client from Paramount. He was so pleased that he stated: "You're my new DRS operator!". And so it began...
Ron worked as DRS operator for Sunset Post for another two plus years working on numerous restoration projects which included: The Ten Commandments (for which he was interviewed on Entertainment Tonight by Leonard Maltin), and James Cameron's "Titanic".
During this period, Ron met the woman who would become his wife, and in June of 2000, they married on yacht in Newport Harbor.
For the next 6 years, Ron moved from Sunset Post to International Video Conversions, Point360, and finally Post Logic Studios where he worked on hundreds of films of all ages. After a slump in the industry, Ron was laid off. Finally disgusted with the industry, Ron sold his house and moved to Montana to escape the industry for a while.
Currently, Ron is working as a Graphic Artist in his home office on a 15 acre ranch. His other projects include writing movie scripts (six feature-length to date, two shorts, and six in development, including a novel based on one of his scripts - still in progress), and his new business venture (TBA very soon) with a long-time friend of his.
He moved to Southern California in 1985 to pursue a career in the film industry, starting at Columbia College-Hollywood when it was still located on LaBrea in Hollywood.
Graduated with a B.A. in Cinema in 1989, and worked on several low budget films, including his only credit to date: The Banker.
He worked at Alan Gordon Enterprises, as an account executive, where he learned more about the process of film making by learning all of the equipment that was rented out from the Company.
He went to work for Gallin Morey Associates, a top end management company as a messenger. Also worked with SandDollar Productions at the same time - owned by Sandy Gallin and Dolly Parton. Learned all he could there, about the real business of the film and music industries, until he realized it as a dead-end job.
Went to work at Dubs, Inc in Hollywood as a scheduling auditor, verifying the technical specs for video tape duplication. After a year, it was time to move on.
Started working for Sunset Post continuing the position of auditor, but as final quality control. Several months into the job Ron noticed a computer-aided restoration suite call DRS (Digital Restoration Services) - created by Mathematical Technologies, Inc, in Providence, Rhode Island - being used by one of the employees. Curious about it, he sat down and watched the process. More intrigued by it, he sat down during his off-hours to learn more about the system. It fit like a glove for his nature.
About a month later, Ron was asked by the Salesman, and the Management to use the system to fix a film scratch. The system was slow, but Ron's intimate knowledge of film, gave him insight into how to speed it up and he spoke those insights to the programs developer. After a couple of days work, the scratch-repair process was shortened from ~1.25 minutes per frame to 20 seconds per frame. The job was completed and the customer was thrilled.
Another month went by before Ron had another chance to fix a film: "The Hunt for Red October". The Paramount Post-production Executive was angered by a shoddy job of repair on a film splice. Ron was confident that he could fix the problem in fifteen minutes, and did so to the surprise of the client from Paramount. He was so pleased that he stated: "You're my new DRS operator!". And so it began...
Ron worked as DRS operator for Sunset Post for another two plus years working on numerous restoration projects which included: The Ten Commandments (for which he was interviewed on Entertainment Tonight by Leonard Maltin), and James Cameron's "Titanic".
During this period, Ron met the woman who would become his wife, and in June of 2000, they married on yacht in Newport Harbor.
For the next 6 years, Ron moved from Sunset Post to International Video Conversions, Point360, and finally Post Logic Studios where he worked on hundreds of films of all ages. After a slump in the industry, Ron was laid off. Finally disgusted with the industry, Ron sold his house and moved to Montana to escape the industry for a while.
Currently, Ron is working as a Graphic Artist in his home office on a 15 acre ranch. His other projects include writing movie scripts (six feature-length to date, two shorts, and six in development, including a novel based on one of his scripts - still in progress), and his new business venture (TBA very soon) with a long-time friend of his.