NYPL reserve film & video collection appears to have 3 prints of REPORT
http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b17632181~S1
On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Kelsey Velez <kelsve...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The print at SAIC was acquired from the Conner family trust, so it's
> likely that the print you saw ('67) was the same as the one I'm referring
> to. Just a guess.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 6, 2016, at 12:45, John Muse <jm...@sonic.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Kelsey. I only know the (gorgeously printed) version available
> from Michelle Silva and the Conner Family Trust, which was until a few
> minutes ago also up at Ubuweb. Do you mean that SAIC has the version that
> Mosen describes? Or the '67 version now in distribution?
> >
> >> On Feb 6, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Kelsey Velez <kelsve...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The School of the Art Institute is in possession of a different version
> of Report than the one mentioned. The sequence at the beginning of the film
> is footage of the motorcade just before the moment Mr. Kennedy was shot. If
> memory serves me right, the soundtrack begins the same way in the version
> at SAIC as it does in the version mentioned by Herb. Don't quote me,
> though. It was printed and purchased in 2014.
> >>
> >> FYI.
> >> Kelsey
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 09:15, John Muse <jm...@sonic.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Excellent! Thanks, Herb. Great screening idea: it would be very
> interesting.
> >>>
> >>>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Herb Shellenberger <htsh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Eight.
> >>>>
> >>>> "Report was actually shown in eight different versions – all of equal
> duration and with the same soundtrack – after its initial premiere at the
> Harvard Film Society in 1964. The final version – after which the previous
> iterations were destroyed, if they hadn’t already been obliterated in the
> process of revision – was not completed until 1967. "
> >>>> http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/cteq/report/
> >>>>
> >>>> Depending on when collections acquired the film it could be
> different. I've wanted for a while to do a screening of as many prints of
> the film as possible, a report on Report. But that might end up being not
> too interesting in the end.
> >>>>
> >>>> -h
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:07 PM, John Muse <jm...@sonic.net> wrote:
> >>>> Having just screened a 16mm print of Report rented from Michelle
> Silva and the Conner Family Trust and having watched the version up at UBU
> several times http://ubu.com/film/conner_report.html I am surprised when
> I read a 1966 review of Report by Robert Mosen (Film Quarterly, Vol. 19,
> No. 3, Spring, 1966, pp. 54-56) who describes the film this way:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Conner opens Report with several minutes of a printed film loop of
> Jackie and Caroline as they approach, kneel at, and walk away from
> Kennedy's coffin which is lying in state.
> >>>>
> >>>> And then:
> >>>>
> >>>>> We go through a few loops before the sound track begins. It is a
> radio newscast of the five minutes of routine Dallas motorcade that
> preceded the assassination.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Finally:
> >>>>
> >>>>> What follows the film loop and occupies the remaining ten minutes of
> the film can only be described as a tour de force of implicational montage.
> The image is a constant shuffle of several groups of footage. The first
> thing we see is a close-up of matador and bull in the thick of battle.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> This sounds like a different film. How many versions were there?
> What would Mosen likely have seen?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> j/PrM
> >>>>
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