About This Site
This site is in no way associated or affiliated with the family, heirs, or estate of Mark Frankel. It has been
assembled to give Mark Frankel fans a dynamic and easily navigable web site full of freely available material and
access to commercial resources, such as video tapes, books, and photographs.
Nor is this site associated with any group that claims "official" status in regards to Mark Frankel. One has been
particularly abusive in its extraction of content and material from this site without permission and without any credit or
proper attribution back to the Mark Frankel Profile and Gallery.
Using Material From This Site
We ask that you do not remove material from this site and use it in some other public venue without proper credit and
attribution back to the Mark Frankel Profile and Gallery at mark-frankel.com. All the material on this site is original in that
it was purchased, created from resources, permission obtained from the copyright holder, or contributed by individuals
for whom credit has been gratefully given, unless the contributor wished to remain anonymous. If you find the images
within this domain elsewhere without any credit given back to the mark-frankel.com, those images were taken and used
without permission or without proper attribution back to the source.
Technical Notes
Development and Platform
This web site has been developed using Microsoft® Visual InterDev 6.0 and follows the
Document Object Model.
It incorporates Active Server Pages 2.0 technology and uses VBScript for scripts run on the server. It uses ASP and JavaScript
for client-side scripting, especially for the DHTML (Dynamic HTML) elements. A number of the pages are built dynamically
with file includes. Some file includes are used to keep the code modular and available to all pages when needed. Such
modular files include JS files for JavaScript, headers and footers that are shared, and small snippets of text that may be used by
two or more pages or by two or more other file includes. Internet Explorer 6.0 is highly recommended.
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Graphics
This site is graphics-intensive. Nearly all of the images have been scanned from press release material or captured
from video tape. The capture process snaps extremely large images, which are reduced and enhanced using Paint
Shop Pro 6.0 from JASC. Because some of the video resources were not
first generation recordings, a number of the images appear grainy with "video bleed." It has been noted
throughout the site when such is the case. The capture card is a WinTV card from
Hauppauge with proprietary software for capturing
video, audio, and stills.
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Video
Video was captured using a Hauppauge WinTV card with proprietary software. The video format is Intel Indeo®
video 5 with corresponding audio format as PCM. Video clips were built using Asymetrix Video Producer v.4. They
were fully compressed using the tiny freeware tool AVIEDIT
from Microsoft. This site also uses "streaming" media in that the video files can begin
playing before they are completely downloaded to your machine. One of two tools was used to build the ASF streaming
media files, depending on the quality of the final output. These tools are the Windows Media On-Demand Producer v.4
from Sonic Foundry and Windows Media Encoder v.4 from Microsoft.
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Audio
Audio was captured and built using Cool Edit Version 96 from Syntrillium Software.
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Enhancements
This site makes use of numerous external web enhancements.
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Credits
Although most material on this site is commercially available, some of it would not be possible without the
valued contributions of some Mark Frankel fans who offered their private collections. I thank those
people for sharing, and I hope you enjoy their contributions.
If you would like to contribute material to this profile and gallery, please
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For the Fortune Hunter portion of this site, I used printed material, 35mm slides, photographs from a
press release kit, and a publicity still provided by photographer Dan Littlejohn. I also used a complete set of video tapes
to produce the video clips, the sound bites, and most of the still images. The entire set of Fortune Hunter tapes
were contributed by Janet Jones. Perhaps one day, the series will be released on tape, giving us high quality
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For the Kindred: the Embraced section, I used the complete set of video tapes. Republic Pictures has
released the entire series as a boxed set of three video tapes. The
Kindred: The Embraced
Video Set
or the DVD is
well worth owning as part of your own collection. Some of the material is also
available in my Kindred: the Embraced section of the
CyperPursuits site. |
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For the section on Young Catherine, I used the complete set of video tapes. TNT Pictures has
released the entire mini-series as a set of two video tapes. It also comes in
an abbreviated version. |
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For the Season of Giants portion of this site, I used a complete set of video tapes to produce the
video clips, the sound bites, and most of the still images. The entire set of tapes were contributed by some Mark Frankel
fans. Perhaps one day, the movie will be released on tape, giving us high quality video and stereo of this production. |
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For the Sisters section, I used a complete set of video tapes to produce the video clips, the sound bites,
and most of the still images. The entire set of Sisters tapes were contributed by some Mark Frankel fans.
Perhaps one day, the series will be released on tape, giving us high quality video and stereo of this long-running
comedy/drama. SoapNet is currently airing "Sisters" and the Mark Frankel
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For the For Roseanna material, I used my personal copy to produce the video clips, the
sound bites, and the still images. The film is available on video tape.
Containing a dedication to him, For Roseanna is Mark Frankel's final work. |
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For the material on Leon the Pig Farmer, I used publicity material contributed by Linda
Myers plus my personal copy to produce the video clips, the sound bites, and the still images.
The film is available on video tape and is a must for Mark Frankel fans.
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For the Solitaire for 2 section, I used my personal video tape to produce the video clips, the sound
bites, and the still images. The film is available on video tape and is a
very special film because the role was written with Mark in mind. |
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For the Rendell Mysteries episode "Vanity Dies Hard," I used a home-recorded video tape to
produce the video clips, the sound bites, and the still images. The tape was provided by Linda Myers. |
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For the Rik Mayall Presents episode "Clair de Lune," I originally used a home-recorded video tape to
produce the video clips, the sound bites, and the still images. These have been upgraded to use a personal
professional copy that was included in the entire series. |
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For the Inspector Maigret episode "Maigret and the Mad Woman," I used a personal video tape of the
entire series 1 to produce the video clips, the sound bites, and the still images. |
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The text throughout this site comes from a variety of sources and has been researched and prepared to
give you information relevant to the various sections. Special thanks go to Linda Myers, Janet Jones, and
Chris Frenzel for their contributions. Other contributors include Julie Orlando and
Linda Mangione.
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