Thanks, Nicky! I would love to know a little more about "no particular reason." It could be the alliteration. It could be the ridiculousness of these two words. I could be something about power and the bombing of Dresden. Or a nod to Lye whose titles, e.g., Free Radicals, are evocative and pithy. Yes, I'm reaching!
Thanks for confirming my thoughts about the synch! j On Feb 24, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Nicky Hamlyn <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I know it's named after the football club, for no particular > reason. Letratone was made somewhere in Kent, south east England, but not > any more. They have offices in LeMans: www.letraset.com. The film was made > section by section under an enlarger, from B&W originals printed through > colour filters and yes, obviously the sound would be finally printed 26 > frames ahead, to put it in sync. > > Nicky. > > > > ---- John Muse a écrit ---- > > Can anyone motivate the title of Lis Rhodes' Dynamo Dresden? Or is she a fan > of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_Dresden ? > > I was hoping that either the Letratone or the clear leader was manufactured > in Dresden. > > And she claims that the optical track and the visual track are the same, but > it looks like (and sounds like) she offset the optical track (26 frames > ahead) so that there would visual and acoustic synch, even though she > fabricated the optical track and the visual track in one go. If you go to > http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern-tanks/display/lis-rhodes-light-music > and scroll down to the video, you'll see at 51" prints of the film strip. > Right? Wrong? > > j/PrM > > ************************************************* > > john muse > visiting assistant professor of independent college programs > haverford college > http://www.finleymuse.com > http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/jmuse > http://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse > > ************************************************* > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks j/PrM ************************************************* john muse visiting assistant professor of independent college programs haverford college http://www.finleymuse.com http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/jmuse http://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse ************************************************* _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
