In a message dated 11/4/2006 9:41:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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Would  there be a CGI explosion of said coffin, with a computer effect
of the  evidence, viz. contraband lace splaying across the screen in
pixellated  bits to land here and there among the audience?
Then, racing against the  time, the lecturer dashes out of the room
through a secret passage to (do  what?)..
I imagine the lecturer would be dashing out of the room to avoid the  
copyright police who had just arrived in a paddy wagon. In the case of my  
lecture, 
The Laces of the Robber Barons, (I fancy myself playing the lead in  this) 
permission is only granted to show slides of lace in an "evanescent  image". To 
film the slides of the lace would take us into a whole new category  of 
negotiation with the rights holders, namely the museum. The IOLI   receives 
special 
low rates for publication of images because I always identify  us as scholarly. 
How interesting it would be to fill out a form for use of  the image and 
identify the use as "Blockbuster Movie". 
 
My husband and I spend a lot of time watching educational TV in which Roman  
ruins are explored, or, for instance,  Meet the Ancestors where people are  
exhumed from peat bogs, or perhaps there will be some scientist being sped  on 
a 
boat toward the ruins of the Colossus of Rhodes while giving a history  of 
it. I always wonder why there is never a educational type special about  
textiles, even the history of costume. (There are several series about the  
history 
of the gun.) 
 
I think that a series in which a passionate lace scholar (I fancy myself in  
this role) is raced about in two seater sports cars to places like the Lace  
School in Le Puy and makes exciting discoveries, like the wedding gown of  
Empress Josephine would be well-received. Don't you think so? 
 
Devon

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