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CES: Quikswipe lets filmmakers accept credit cards

For decades, filmmakers have been using their own credit cards to finance their projects. Isn’t it time you started using other people’s credit cards? Well, now you can!

MacAlly has announced the Quikswipe, a credit card reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

What’s that you say?  How is this a filmmaking tool?

Watch the video, and find out!

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Dear iPhone fanatics and filmmaking friends, This will be the final post for Hand Held Hollywood. To loyal HHH readers, I’m sure this feels somewhat overdue. Probably because it is.

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Shang-Chi Director Directed From His iPhone

I enjoyed reading this brief ScreenRant story, so I thought I’d share it here. It describes how Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, was forced to direct an important scene via his iPhone while in the hospital for the birth of his child! Sadly, it doesn’t divulge the details of that unusual workflow, but it’s an excellent reminder that we’re all toting the world’s most versatile piece of filmmaking gear in our pockets and purses!

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  1. I wonder if they’ll bundle this with a merchant app, I also wonder what the merchant fees will be for such an app? I guess we’ll see soon.