New Milford in Winter as captured by Sony XDCam EX (Old Upload)

[TimonclanM16]

ahhh, isn't our town on New Milford so peaceful. Bank St. Theater still is up today. They make a lot of movies in New Milford, it is just sometimes hard to recognize it when the names of the buildings are changed. I live a few miles away from the green off of 109. The sunset is always that beautiful in New Milford

[hjm09]

I live a block from Bank Street. I walked throught the set of Mr. Deeds during filming. And when Keanu Reeves was filming there, I met him a couple of times and my friend owned a store next to the set. So I was allowed to meet he actors whenever I wanted.

[erkoekrf]

@hjm09 I never remember Keanu Reeves filming there and I lived in New Milford for 27 years.. What movie was that? I can remember Dennis Leary filming there though

[matt99unc]

Wow, Im surprised to see that movie theater is still there.....I saw a lot of movies there with my friends 25 years ago.

[fmscribs]

at 0:23 seconds...I bet that was taken from that little rest area off rte 67.

The remake of the movie Mr Deeds was shot mostly on Bank Street, too.

Even though I live in Rhode Island now I'll still visit my parents up in the Merryall section of New Milford.

Nicely done.

[basspig]

Yes, that is the side of rt 67, just south of the Roxbury line.

Indeed Bank St is famous for "Mr. Deeds".

About 45 years earlier, another film had some scenes shot on Main St, in front of the old Village Hardware Store, which is now some sort of arts center.

This reminds me that I should post my antique auto show footage, shot on the Green and with a sunset seen from Bank St here soon..

[bigwhite619]

good lord i remember standing in a snow day by bankstreet waiting for my friend

[bluepln6]

i live in new milford :)

[basspig]

Heaven help you if you pay the taxes too! ;-\

[bluepln6]

haha yea they really do a number on you but i get by :)

[basspig]

Yes, until we fall behind. NM is quick to foreclose on tax-'delinquent' properties.

[zzladybug]

This is the town where I was born!!! Thank you Mark for the trip down memory lane. I saw lots of movies at the Bank Street Theater, played on the gazebo and tank, got gas at the station across the street from the funeral home, fished in the river down the road and watched the trains come & go.  We could walk to the green from our house. I loved the fairs on the green! It was a lovely place to grow up in - I hope to go back there to live one day.

[basspig]

I've owned my home here since 1966 when I built it. Of course the town has changed immensely since then. It's no longer rural, but a burgeoning suburban community caught in a struggle between the wealthy and recently moved-in NY'ers and us old-timers who came here because it was quiet and relatively cheap to live. Rt 7 is now 2 lanes, both directions, our politics is a mess, taxes have gone up 20,000% since I moved in, and things in general have gone downhill. Only some parts retain history.

[Boocheyy]

i love New Milford. =D

[gng11]

nice! have you tried in 24fp? I noticed alot of crime scene dramas shoot that way.... :)

[basspig]

Nowadays I'm shooting everything in 24P, since it is a real problem to get 30P footage onto Blu-ray format (3:2 pulldown problems). The advantage for regular DVD is that leaves 33% more bandwidth to encode each frame and quality is superb that way.

[gng11]

Do you use the same lens that comes along with the camcorder or do you use something else?

[basspig]

I used the stock EX1 lens in all of my videos.

[hungdoo91]

notice the two people run that stop sign it only looks nice because they videotaped only one road

[1967007]

Where is New Milford? It seemed like the perfect place to live until I read the commentaries. Nice footage, though.

[basspig]

It's near the western edge of Connecticut. It is a nice place to live, if you can stomache paying the price of a new car every year in real estate taxes. :-(

[theking42000]

new milford has good haze now

[sawyerburnett9]

next time u should film high street or rt.7 or somthing,but with the same music and eeverything..lol-this town sucks

[basspig]

I've lived in this town for the past 43 years now, having owned the same house, and I can truely say that the most prominent thing about the town that "sucks" is the taxes and how they've risen some 8,000% over the time I've owned my home. It was affordable up to 1980 and then things just went out of sight.

True, too, there is too much development. When I moved in, Rt 7 was lined with farms. Today it's shopping strip malls. :-(

[Skatetopic]

well abbott tech is doing renovation to their high school and its going to be in total of 59 million

[basspig]

In today's dollars, the Sara Noble (old HS) renovation would probably be around $120 million. The dollar bought more back then and gas was what, $1/gallon then? Today, $59 million is a pretty low cost, considering the dollar buys 1/4 what it did just 8 years ago.

[weh000000000000001]

Very nice. Makes this crap town look like a nice place to live. Too bad it's really not!

[basspig]

Indeed. New Milford is an over-taxing, beaurocratic haven for tax & spend cronies. They built a 43 million dollar high school that ended up costing 93 million, and after the taxpayers' bitter outrage, they went and spent another 28 million to renovate the old HS into Sarah Noble Intermediate. I've been a vocal opponent of big spending, but most of the residents earn over 150 grand a year, so a 15K tax bill is nothing to them.

[fourthwall1]

yeah, please explain. Maybe you can save us some money on what you know.

[basspig]

What difference does it make WHICH company invents a good camera? If it does the job, buy it. If you boycott a good product, you only hurt yourself by doing so.

[basspig]

Start with high quality material, with little to no noise (grain). Don't oversharpen the images. Minimize motion (MPEG compression hates when large numbers of pixels change color simultaneously). Keep the backgrounds free of high frequency detail when possible.

[basspig]

It's turning the industry up on its side. If the "competition" doesn't come up with a revolutionary new camera soon, Sony is going to clean house with the market.

[jpico72]

Great video, I just got mine, do you have any p. profiles you recomend for a filmish texture.

[bangoopong]

it was perfect unitl the last zoom out.

[casablancamicasa]

what he was talking about is your second zoom wasn't smooth enough,but i think the first zoom is OK,the lens of EX1 is 14X,so did you use a telephoto converter lens?

[basspig]

Didn't use a tele converter, but did use my crummy old 25-year old tripod for that test shoot. So the vertical shake was due to a flimsy tripod.

[Socman86]

zooming a big no no not bad though for your first video

[basspig]

What's the point of a zoom lens if you can't use it? ;-)

[basspig]

The WMV file IS in 16x9. YouTube is a 4:3 venue, so the video is letterboxed as a result.

[hudstone420]

why didnt you export your video in 16:9

[SoloDallas]

Beautiful indeed. After seeing our clip and gathering info, I bought one today. Learning time now.