Fouad Said

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even food - for a fixed and quite reasonable sum.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="14832cce0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="206" ALT="Sheldon Leonard & Fouad Said" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="5"></div> <div> with Sheldon Leonard</div> <bR> <div> He appeared on Sheldon Leonard's doorstep as if summoned in a wish, apparently having read a newspaper article about the “I Spy” project.  Fouad Said was ingenious, energetic  and competent, and his own dream was plying his trade in Hollywood.</div> <bR> <div> According to Robert Culp, “there wasn't anything Fouad didn't know,  and behind the camera there wasn't anything he couldn't do.”  Seemingly inexhaustible and always smiling, he found a solution to every location shooting problem they faced.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="18735e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Robert Culp, Bill Cosby and Fouad Said in an acting role in <A HREF="oedipus.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oedipus At Colonnus">Oedipus at Colonnus</A></div> <bR> <div> The show's star adds, that working with Fouad Said and his team was full of excitement and fun, but they always got the job done.</div> <bR> <div> The Egyptian was personally responsible for one of the series' most important claims to fame, the innovative overseas segments.  He developed the “cinemobile” which enabled the crew to move around the world with its own rolling soundstage equipment, including a mobile crane mounted on the roof of his cinemobile.  The striking location images of the series are a testament to his skill as a cinematographer, as it was all pioneering work then. </div> <bR> <div> He also designed special minature radio microphones for location shooting, which he had made at Stanford.  These were the forerunners of the radio microphones which are in standard use today in films.</div> <bR> <div> And he didn't stop when shooting ceased.  He also maintained the equipment and catered the sumptuous location meals which still remain a fond memory for those who worked on the show.</div> <bR> <div> The “I Spy” set was a marvelous ethnic mix.  As an Egyptian, Fouad Said had to work closely with his Jewish bosses right through the Six Day War.  When Egypt was defeated by Israel, Sheldon Leonard tells the anecdote that Said stalked up to Friedkin, Fine and himself, declaring to them, “today everything will be out of focus!”</div> <bR> <div> The cinemobile was not the beginning nor the end of Fouad Said's pioneering work.  He was one of the first individuals to dive out of planes with a head-mounted camera to photograph skydivers in action.</div> <bR> <div> After “I Spy” he further developed, refined and expanded his cinemobile  concept, and ended up  selling the business for $7 million.   He went into oil-drilling industry services after that, and headed a company with 14,000 employees.  Fouad Said has turned the several hundred millions this business netted him into billions and is today an active venture capitalist.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="208"><div> Get all episodes from </div> <div> I Spy Season 1</div> <bR> <div>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=ispyresourcce-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0012EBV88&fc1=FFFFC7&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=F1BB15&bc1=000000&bg1=060606&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </div> <bR> <div> I Spy Season 2</div> <div>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=ispyresourcce-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0012EBV8I&fc1=FFFFC7&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=F1BB15&bc1=000000&bg1=060606&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </div> <bR> <div> I Spy Season 3</div> <div>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=ispyresourcce-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0012EBV8S&fc1=FFFFC7&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=F1BB15&bc1=000000&bg1=060606&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </div> <bR> <div> Read the I Spy Book</div> <div>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=ispyresourcce-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0786427507&fc1=FFFFC7&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=F1BB15&bc1=000000&bg1=060606&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </div> <bR> <div> Film Score Monthly has released an album  of five “I Spy” scores </div> <div> by Earle Hagen on CD.</div> <div> <A HREF="https://secure.filmscoremonthly.com/store/detailCD.asp?ID=235" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://secure.filmscoremonthly.com/stor"><IMG SRC="12585a5a0.jpg" border=0 width="90" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <div> Direct from the soundtracks of "So Long, Patrick Henry" - 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