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Date: Friday, 26 February 2016 2:52 am
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Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Lis Rhodes? Dynamo
I agree with you, Mark. After watching the "Shoot Shoot Shoot" version last
night in a hall with a wonderful sound system, I could only think of the fire
bombing of Dresden, which is curious because London, obviously, knows these
sounds as well. That Dresden must be the reference; and even if
I believe the title is also a reference to the bombing of Dresden in World War
II, and the qualities of the soundtrack suggest this also. Its remarkable how
much this soundtrack varies according to the projector it is shown on.
As Nicky Hamlyn stated, the soundtrack was offset after being made
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
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 originals printed through
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
