Light Industry showed a digital copy of it in 2013. On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Warren Cockerham < warrencocker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Seth, > > Is it possible to travel to NYC with a film transparency scanner like one > of the Epson Perfection models and a laptop to scan frames at the Donnell? > You could easily shift the magenta colorspace in photoshop (or gimp if > you're anit-adobe) and output print-quality images. Maybe a friend in NYC > could do this and send them to you? Sorry, I don't live there anymore. > > - Warren > (Chicago) > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Watter, Seth <seth_wat...@brown.edu> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am emailing on the off chance that someone might know about copies, >> either 16mm or high quality digital, of the film *Microcultural >> Incidents in Ten Zoos* by Ray L. Birdwhistell and Jacques D. van Vlack >> (1971? some sources say 1969). I would like to obtain images good enough to >> print, for a publication on Birdwhistell that is soon going to press. >> >> The title technically belongs to Drexel, but they have no copies there. I >> have a DVD of the film that I bought from Penn Media Sales before they went >> belly-up, but as you might expect, it does not look very good even as a >> DVD, let alone as an image on paper. The only other format they provide is >> an SD file--presumably made from the DVD. >> >> I know of 16mm copies at the Donnell Library in New York and at the Penn >> Museum Archives. Neither has been well cared for and both are >> super-magenta. The Human Studies Film Archive in D.C. has original >> camera rolls for the film, but not the particular segment I would like to >> reproduce. Of course, other results come up in Worldcat, in sometimes >> far-flung places... >> >> Please let me know if you have any clues, references, etc. Or forward to >> those who might. It would be much appreciated. >> >> Best, >> >> Seth Barry Watter >> Brown University >> Magic Lantern Cinema >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- Pablo de Ocampo Exhibitions Curator Western Front 303 East 8th Avenue Vancouver BC V5T 1S1 Canada T. +1.604.876.9343 F. +1.604.876.4099 E. pablodeoca...@front.bc.ca W. www.front.bc.ca *On view in the gallery:* *Asymmetrical Response | Cory Arcangel & Olia Lialina <http://front.bc.ca/events/asymmetrical-response/> | September 9 - October 22, 2016* *Coming up:* Scrivener's Monthly | <http://front.bc.ca/events/lynell-george-and-julia-meltzer-discussing-radio-imagination/>Lynell George and Julia Meltzer Discussing Radio Imagination <http://front.bc.ca/events/lynell-george-and-julia-meltzer-discussing-radio-imagination/> |* October 13, *2016 @ 7pm
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