[Frameworks] Noteworthy Publications This Year?

[Michael Betancourt]

What were the noteworthy publications this year? My reading pile has gotten
smaller...

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[Frameworks] cats & milk

[Gene Youngblood]

Friends, 
I’m drawing a blank on the title of a one-shot film, I think by Standish 
Lawder, of cats drinking milk in a glass bowl, seen from the bottom.

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Re: [Frameworks] cats & milk

[Cooper Battersby]

I think you are looking for:

Cat film for Katy and Cynnie 1973, 16mm, color, silent, 4:00

From the EMAF 2011 Retrospctive Catalog… 

In the early 70's, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle 
produced a ›Cat Film Festival:‹ which was shown in a large downtown NYC 
auditorium to an audience of more than a thousand catlovers. At the time, I 
lived with my wife Ursula and our daughters Katy and Cynnie, together with 
many, too many cats. I loved my family but not the cats. But one of our cats 
would wag her tail endlessly as long as her neck was stroked and, with the 
right music on the film's sound track, she really looked like she was 
conducting the musicians. This idea became Catfilm for Ursula. The audience 
loved it, and I was awarded a carton of cat food for the film. But to my 
disappointment, this audience was only interested in just seeing cats; 
obviously they cared not at all about the wonderful art of film. So when the 
second ›cat film festival‹ was announced, I decided to play with their 
obsession. First, I put three cats in a bathroom without food for two days to 
make sure they were super-hungry. Then I took a large glass panel and placed my 
camera underneath it, then covered the glass with a mixture of milk and flour 
and placed the hungry cats on top of the glass. This became Catfilm for Katy 
and Cynnie. At first, while looking at a blank screen, the audience hated it: 
Where are the cats? ...until finally, to their hysterical delight, the cats 
appeared by licking away to reveal themselves.
—Standish Lawder

http://www.emaf.de/emaf.de/fileadmin/2011/pdf/EMAF_Retrospektive.pdf 





> On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Gene Youngblood  wrote:
> 
> Friends, 
> I’m drawing a blank on the title of a one-shot film, I think by Standish 
> Lawder, of cats drinking milk in a glass bowl, seen from the bottom.
> 
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Re: [Frameworks] cats & milk

[Gene Youngblood]

Thanks everyone for the responses and great backstory. 

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:13 PM, Francisco Torres  wrote:
> 
> Today we know that cats should not drink milk...
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Re: [Frameworks] cats & milk

[Francisco Torres]

Today we know that cats should not drink milk...
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Re: [Frameworks] Noteworthy Publications This Year?

[David Baker]

Scott MacDonald's revelatory,
BINGHAMTON BABYLON: VOICES FROM THE CINEMA DEPARTMENT 1967-1977

PAPER AIRPLANES: The Collections of Harry Smith Catalogue Raisonne Vol I

STRING FIGURES: The Collections of Harry Smith Catalogue Raisonne ,  
Vol. II


Editors- John Klacsmann
   Andrew Lampert

CHROMATIC ALGORITHMS: SYNTHETIC COLOR, COMPUTER ART, and AESTHETICS  
AFTER CODE


- Carolyn L. Kane
("Life is won by wresting colors from the past."
-Gilles Deleuze )

FANTASIA OF COLOR IN EARLY CINEMA
- Tom Gunning et al.

THE EXPERIENCE MACHINE: STAN VANDERBEEK'S MOVIE-DROME
AND EXPANDED CINEMA
-Gloria Sutton

Jane (Brakhage) Wodening's book:
BRAKHAGE'S CHILDHOOD

(Haven't read this yet but I certainly intend to.
Recommended by someone
whose opinion
I hold in the highest regard.)


On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Michael Betancourt wrote:

What were the noteworthy publications this year? My reading pile has  
gotten smaller...


Michael Betancourt
Savannah, GA USA


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Re: [Frameworks] cats & milk

[George, Sherman]

Sent from my iPhone
Sherman George
858-229-4368
Correction
K and U

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:49, George, Sherman  wrote:
> 
> Cat film for Katie Ursla.
> Two versions were made
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> Sherman George
> 858-229-4368
> 
> 
>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:18, Gene Youngblood  wrote:
>> 
>> Friends, 
>> I’m drawing a blank on the title of a one-shot film, I think by Standish 
>> Lawder, of cats drinking milk in a glass bowl, seen from the bottom.
>> 
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Re: [Frameworks] All about the Bolex

[David Baker]

I remember the great photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon
saying he shared a film camera with Robert Frank.
If it was a Bolex they held in common,
then Lyon as raconteur ( as well as in oeuvre)
would be one of the few who might rival Robert Frank.

On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:05 AM, alexan...@bolex.net wrote:


Dear Frameworkers,

For nearly five years, I have been working on a documentary about  
the swiss precision industry that produced the Bolex’s, Kern lenses  
and the Nagra. I have already met over 30 former employee of theses  
companies as well as filmmakers.


You can watch a trailer featuring Otello Diotallevi who is the last  
Bolex employee by clicking the link below:


https://vimeo.com/150185992

I am trying to find people that used to visit the Paillard Showroom  
at 265 Madison Avenue in New-York.They were also located in 100  
Avenue of the America and later in Linden, New-Jersey. If any of you  
have some stories about it, I would be very interested to hear it  
(Images Below). I will probably be in New-York in January.


I am also copying an article from the Bolex Reporter entitled « The  
New American Cinema Group ».The article was written in 1966 by Fred  
W. Mc Darrah. I was very surprised to see Robert Frank in the  
article, I always thought he was filming with an arriflex at least  
from the film « Pull my daisy ». If I remember correctly, Robert  
Beavers the partner of Gregory Markopoulos told me that Paillard  
lent some cameras to the filmmakers in exchange of the article. Some  
of them never came back.


If any of you could help me contact Mr Mekas I would appreciate it  
very much, I have been trying to contact him for three years without  
success.


There is a film on the inventor of the first Bolex's ( http://www.jacquesbolseyproject.com/index.html 
 ) that should be released next year and a book was released in  
French two years ago ( http://www.editions-thiele.com/ ). Lots of  
interesting things about the Bolex history will be released in a  
near future.


Feel free to contact me if you have any interesting stories about  
the Bolex.


Happy filmmaking!
Alexandre Favre









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Re: [Frameworks] cats & milk

[Cooper Battersby]

I think you are looking for:

Cat film for Katy and Cynnie 1973, 16mm, color, silent, 4:00

From the EMAF 2011 Retrospctive Catalog… 

In the early 70's, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle 
produced a ›Cat Film Festival:‹ which was shown in a large downtown NYC 
auditorium to an audience of more than a thousand catlovers. At the time, I 
lived with my wife Ursula and our daughters Katy and Cynnie, together with 
many, too many cats. I loved my family but not the cats. But one of our cats 
would wag her tail endlessly as long as her neck was stroked and, with the 
right music on the film's sound track, she really looked like she was 
conducting the musicians. This idea became Catfilm for Ursula. The audience 
loved it, and I was awarded a carton of cat food for the film. But to my 
disappointment, this audience was only interested in just seeing cats; 
obviously they cared not at all about the wonderful art of film. So when the 
second ›cat film festival‹ was announced, I decided to play with their 
obsession. First, I put three cats in a bathroom without food for two days to 
make sure they were super-hungry. Then I took a large glass panel and placed my 
camera underneath it, then covered the glass with a mixture of milk and flour 
and placed the hungry cats on top of the glass. This became Catfilm for Katy 
and Cynnie. At first, while looking at a blank screen, the audience hated it: 
Where are the cats? ...until finally, to their hysterical delight, the cats 
appeared by licking away to reveal themselves.
—Standish Lawder

http://www.emaf.de/emaf.de/fileadmin/2011/pdf/EMAF_Retrospektive.pdf 










> On Dec 29, 2015, at 4:12 PM, George, Sherman  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> Sherman George
> 858-229-4368
> Correction
> K and U
> 
>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:49, George, Sherman  wrote:
>> 
>> Cat film for Katie Ursla.
>> Two versions were made
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> Sherman George
>> 858-229-4368
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:18, Gene Youngblood  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Friends, 
>>> I’m drawing a blank on the title of a one-shot film, I think by Standish 
>>> Lawder, of cats drinking milk in a glass bowl, seen from the bottom.
>>> 
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Re: [Frameworks] cats & milk

[George, Sherman]

Cat film for Katie Ursla.
Two versions were made

Sent from my iPhone
Sherman George
858-229-4368


> On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:18, Gene Youngblood  wrote:
> 
> Friends, 
> I’m drawing a blank on the title of a one-shot film, I think by Standish 
> Lawder, of cats drinking milk in a glass bowl, seen from the bottom.
> 
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Re: [Frameworks] All about the Bolex

[Steven]

Hi Alexandre

I remember Swiss Camera, and I went there a few times. Saw a Bolex Pro 
100 on display.



But other than that, no interesting stories.

Sounds like a great project.


No English subtitles on the vimeo link,  :-(

On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:05 AM, alexan...@bolex.net wrote:


Dear Frameworkers,

For nearly five years, I have been working on a documentary about the 
swiss precision industry that produced the Bolex’s, Kern lenses and 
the Nagra. I have already met over 30 former employee of theses 
companies as well as filmmakers.


You can watch a trailer featuring Otello Diotallevi who is the last 
Bolex employee by clicking the link below:


https://vimeo.com/150185992

I am trying to find people that used to visit the Paillard Showroom 
at 265 Madison Avenue in New-York.They were also located in 100 
Avenue of the America and later in Linden, New-Jersey. If any of you 
have some stories about it, I would be very interested to hear it 
(Images Below). I will probably be in New-York in January.


I am also copying an article from the Bolex Reporter entitled « The 
New American Cinema Group ».The article was written in 1966 by Fred 
W. Mc Darrah. I was very surprised to see Robert Frank in the 
article, I always thought he was filming with an arriflex at least 
from the film « Pull my daisy ». If I remember correctly, Robert 
Beavers the partner of Gregory Markopoulos told me that Paillard lent 
some cameras to the filmmakers in exchange of the article. Some of 
them never came back.


If any of you could help me contact Mr Mekas I would appreciate it 
very much, I have been trying to contact him for three years without 
success.


There is a film on the inventor of the first Bolex's ( 
http://www.jacquesbolseyproject.com/index.html ) that should be 
released next year and a book was released in French two years ago ( 
http://www.editions-thiele.com/ ). Lots of interesting things about 
the Bolex history will be released in a near future.


Feel free to contact me if you have any interesting stories about the 
Bolex.


Happy filmmaking!
Alexandre Favre









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Re: [Frameworks] All about the Bolex

[Tim Halloran]

Hit the closed caption button at the bottom right to turn on English subtitles.

Tim

Sent from my iPad

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Steven  wrote:
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> No English subtitles on the vimeo link,  :-(
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Re: [Frameworks] All about the Bolex

[Jeff Kreines]

It was an Eclair NPR.  Sweeney Films. (Long story.)

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
j...@kinetta.com
kinetta.com

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 8:17 PM, David Baker  wrote:
> 
> I remember the great photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon
> saying he shared a film camera with Robert Frank.
> If it was a Bolex they held in common,
> then Lyon as raconteur ( as well as in oeuvre)
> would be one of the few who might rival Robert Frank.
> 
>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:05 AM, alexan...@bolex.net wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Frameworkers,
>> 
>> For nearly five years, I have been working on a documentary about the swiss 
>> precision industry that produced the Bolex’s, Kern lenses and the Nagra. I 
>> have already met over 30 former employee of theses companies as well as 
>> filmmakers.
>> 
>> You can watch a trailer featuring Otello Diotallevi who is the last Bolex 
>> employee by clicking the link below:
>> 
>> https://vimeo.com/150185992
>> 
>> I am trying to find people that used to visit the Paillard Showroom at 265 
>> Madison Avenue in New-York.They were also located in 100 Avenue of the 
>> America and later in Linden, New-Jersey. If any of you have some stories 
>> about it, I would be very interested to hear it (Images Below). I will 
>> probably be in New-York in January.
>> 
>> I am also copying an article from the Bolex Reporter entitled « The New 
>> American Cinema Group ».The article was written in 1966 by Fred W. Mc 
>> Darrah. I was very surprised to see Robert Frank in the article, I always 
>> thought he was filming with an arriflex at least from the film « Pull my 
>> daisy ». If I remember correctly, Robert Beavers the partner of Gregory 
>> Markopoulos told me that Paillard lent some cameras to the filmmakers in 
>> exchange of the article. Some of them never came back.
>> 
>> If any of you could help me contact Mr Mekas I would appreciate it very 
>> much, I have been trying to contact him for three years without success.
>> 
>> There is a film on the inventor of the first Bolex's ( 
>> http://www.jacquesbolseyproject.com/index.html ) that should be released 
>> next year and a book was released in French two years ago ( 
>> http://www.editions-thiele.com/ ). Lots of interesting things about the 
>> Bolex history will be released in a near future.
>> 
>> Feel free to contact me if you have any interesting stories about the Bolex.
>> 
>> Happy filmmaking!
>> Alexandre Favre
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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