Benford
Standley's Digital History
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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...
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Joseph sends feed to Yahoo.com |
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Chuck Banner doing the mix |
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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 some other great LA talent chartered the super informational highway.. click to see flyer from 1995
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1997, while living back in
Austin, Tx, he produced a live Internet cybercast
of Willie Nelson and Kinky 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
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Computers in the Webcast Production room...
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 |
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& 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. |
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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.
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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 the main stage to the backstage production
studio were we were doing
interviews... Below check out some of the pics from the two years of webcasting with Yahoo and the |
Webcast in 2000...
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See some letters on the Internet coverage of
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. |
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Rita has a great history in county music and as a Native American. |
in our backstage webcast studio |
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Jade
Herrera comes to the
Dan Jones, on the backstage feed |
Actress Jade Herrera |
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