FILMMAKER

In 1947, as part of his larger research into the nature of human behavior, L. Ron Hubbard briefly studied the art of acting at what was then the prestigious Geller Workshop Theatre in Hollywood. Also by way of background, he studied European directing, and with the advent of Dianetics, was to work fairly closely with a number of luminaries within the Hollywood community, including both Gloria Swanson and Janet Leigh. In point of fact, he helped many a known and unknown industry figure with early Dianetics techniques. The early 1950s found him advising studios on story ideas and audience tastes, while his own story Hoss Tamer appeared on NBC’s Tales of Wells Fargo. The greater point: when he eventually set out, in early 1978, to form a cinemagraphic unit for the production of much-needed Scientology training films, the foundation had already long been established.

His approach was typically thorough, and began with a comprehensive review of virtually every standard text on the filmmaking process, ultimately over a hundred in all. From these, and again this is typical of the man, he was able to emerge with a clean distillation of cinemagraphic essentials as contained in twenty-four basic texts. Included were the fundamentals of lighting, set design, editing, costumes and more.

As for what else Ron brought to this world of cinematography, there was the greater sum of his work through these years: namely-and quite in addition to his scripting and scoring of some two dozen films and his direction of seven more — the L. Ron Hubbard technology and training materials for others to use. In all, those materials comprise a full thousand pages of instructional text to codify the whole of the filmmaking process — which is to say, he ultimately tested in and standardized every element and point of production to assure a true quality of communication.

Today, that greater L. Ron Hubbard cinemagraphic legacy forms the technical foundation of Golden Era Productions. Annually producing hundreds of films and audiovisual works at a truly phenomenal production rate, Golden Era features its own state-of-the-art film lab, recording studios of unmatched reputation for technical fidelity and a film studio incorporating all production lines and departments. (While to accommodate all those lines and departments, that studio factually stands among the world’s largest.) Moreover, and particularly in keeping with L. Ron Hubbard’s original intentions, Golden Era possesses the capability of training virtually anyone to participate in what he so aptly described as that grand and total medium for a story.

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