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On the waterfront, making a movie

Mister Bijou noticed that all the film equipment -- including the mounted camera unit (above) -- has the imprint of Salon Films. No surprise there, Hong Kong's Salon Films is the supplier of all the equipment needed to make a movie, hereabouts and throughout the region.

Salon Film made possible the renaissance of Hong Kong film making in the 1980s and its equipment was/is used on too-many-to-list Hollywood films shot on location in Hong Kong, Macao, China, Thailand, The Philippines, and elsewhere.

Plus, Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the even more recent Johnnie To films (PTU, Breaking News, Election, Exiled) .

So it was sad to learn recently that Salon's main man, Charles Wang, died in New York earlier this month: variety

Life goes on.