Benford Standley's Digital History  

 

thePDFF was webcast 4 hours a day,

from 2008 to 2011, with some great

with stars and filmmakers attending

PASO DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL

WEBCAST FOR FOUR YEARS

WEBCAST VIA MULTI-PLATFORMS

 

Webcast producer Benford Standley

Webcast host Dan Jones interviews

Denise Evans, Scott Sabicer engineering

the webcast from our festival studio.

Benford E. Standley (bio) has produced webcast since 1995...following are some shots from past webcast and other events.

In particular the pictures are from the 5 hour webcast of the FIRST AMERICAN IN THE ARTS AWARDS CEREMONY

with broadcast partner Yahoo.com.  These Webcast were produced in 2000 and 2001...right before Hollywood said the Internet

bubble had busted ...meanwhile back at the ranch...Benford and partners were throwing wood on the World Wide Web fire.

and the StudioClub.com was for 4 years the only digital camera on the red carpets of Hollywood...

Joseph sends feed to Yahoo.com


Producer Benford Standley in the
Webcast Room at end of show


 Chuck Banner doing the mix


was our Broadcast
partner for two years

 

1995 Standley produces one of the first audio/video webcast in history...

1995 Standley produced one of the very first live video/audio Internet cybercast.  The webcast was from
the world famous Troubadour in Hollywood. On the lineup were some  classic LA acts including, The Bum
Steers, John York from the Byrds, Greg Harris of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Buck Page, founding member
of the Riders of the Purple Sage, county "hit" writer Steve Hill,  producer Sid Smith (Circus of the Stars,
Bob Hope's Christmas Specials for ten years, Miss Universe Pageants) was playing the cardboard box and

some other great LA talent chartered the super informational highway.. click to see flyer from 1995

 

In 1997, while living back in Austin, Tx, he produced a live Internet cybercast of Willie Nelson and Kinky
Friedman and Friends, who were playing for the 100 year birthday party of Jimmie Rodgers ( Father of

Country Music). The cybercast was produced in concert with Sony/Columbia Online and he produced  the

show on a Bob Dylan website. The show was a Yahoo "Pick of  the Week," and a pick by CitySearch.com,

and was so successful that the Sony server system crashed in San Francisco.   thanks you very much...

 

With this Standley headed to Hollywood...but nobody knew what he was talking about...then there is the

Bugs Bunny and Warner Brothers cybersquats on Benford's  StudioClub.com 

 

Computers in the Webcast Production room...

 

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Standley was headed down

the Super Informational Highway

soon after he was turned on to it

and other thangs by Willie Nelson

ONWARD THROUGH THE FOG


Ronnie and Rip Masters


John Beland, from the Burrito Brothers

 & Ronnie Mack, the one and only...

1998 Benford Standley and his company did a audio webcast

(podcast they are now being called) ever Tuesday night for one year

Virtually live from the RONNIE MACK BARN DANCE at a club on the

famous corner of Hollywood and Vine...for one year the digital audio

and hot digital pics from the nights were posted at the StudioClub.com

We had the audio of the show, interviews and hot pics from the shows

online weekly via the website.

 

1998, he launch his new project the StudioClub.com.   A  Virtual Entertainment

InterNetwork on the World Wide Web.  The site was launched on June 22, 1998, with

a taped show produced on May 26, '98.   For the past twelve years he has produced

hundreds of webcasts, podcasts, and other digital happenings on the Internet. 

 

click to see the webcast coverage

 

Benford produced two 5 hours webcast of the

FIRST AMERICAN IN THE ARTS AWARDS live

with broadcast partners YAHOO...Webcast in

2000 was live from the Beverly Hills Hotel, and

2001 was from the Century Plaza Hotel...

 

When I asked the team in Dallas with Mark

Cuban's team, who were running the streaming

technology for Yahoo.. "Had anyone streamed

longer than 5 hours live?"  Yahoo! said, "Yeper,

Willie Nelson Webcast of his 4th July Pick Nick

went for eight or nine hours." So we'll run second
to Willie any day.  The webcast would cut from

the main stage to the backstage production

studio were we were doing interviews...
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Below check out some of the pics from

the two years of webcasting with Yahoo and the

FIRST AMERICAN IN THE ARTS AWARDS


Live from Beverly Hills

 
Lindsay Wagner at the first

Webcast in 2000...

 

See some letters on the Internet coverage of

StudioClub.com and BBP, LC

 

HELP THE KIDS

see this forum online live

Nov 21, 2010


Georgina  and  Jackie Kane

 

Benford Standley began to study multimedia in 1993, while negotiating

a one million dollar CD-Rom deal with IBM, after learning about CD-Roms

from his friend Dan Jones, who was doing a CD-Rom project with Kevin

Costner.  He first learned of the Internet and it's future power from

Computer Bob and Willie Nelson back in 1994, when he was coproducing

the shortwave radio broadcast of Farm Aid for Willie. 


Host Dan Jones interviews Mary Kay Place and Rita Coolidge.

Rita has a great history in county music and as a Native American.


Molly Culver TV Series V.I.P. is

in our backstage webcast studio

StudioClub Webcast studios were really
humming...to rt is John Henn on camera.

While the show is going onstage we had

a live interview room backstage where

we were interviewing the artists...and

would have stage cut to us on the

live webcast with Yahoo.com

 

 

 

Jade Herrera comes to the
Webcast Room for interview &
chat with the folks on the live
chat that was set up backstage.


Max Gail and Host/Festival co-Producer

Dan Jones, on the backstage feed


Actress Jade Herrera

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Mary Kay Place, L.P. Brown & Rita Coolidge


Roscoe Pond on left center is Eagle 
Young and Chuck Banner on  right

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