Hmm...did my post about this on Tuesday Sept 6 not make it to the
list? Anyway, on Thursday the (Sundance Award-Winning) documentary
film director Jon Foy asked me to give a short presentation during
the Q&A after the Philly film premier--so I talked a bit about pirate
shortwave broadcasts and brought in an E.F. Johnson Viking
transmitter and matching TVI filter to show the audience. (The
subject of the film was a mysterious individual who reportedly used
such a transmitter on 6250 KHz in the mid 1980's to promulgate their
bizarre message to the world.)
One thing documented in this film is these strange broadcasts were
heard coming through people's TV sets in Philadelphia. The
filmmakers and I have had an ongoing discussion about whether this
was intentional TVI or not. They thought yes, I thought no. But the
night before the film premier and presentation it occurred to me that
the 10th and 13th harmonics of 6250 KHz nicely line up nicely with
the audio carrier frequencies of *both* KYW-CH3 and WPVI-CH6 in
Philadelphia. This seems beyond coincidence to me, so it made for a
good discussion at the Q&A.
The theater was sold out with 350 in attendance, and I told them
about the SWLfest and suggested they check it out the website. At
the reception afterwards several people approached me and asked for
more info, so I'm hoping this film will bring more people into our community.
If you can't come to Philly and see this excellent film on Sept 10,
11, or 12th, it's available on Video On Demand (check the website
below for more info) and should be out on DVD sometime this
winter. It was screened at the IFC theater in New York City last
Friday (Sept 2) and got good reviews in both The New York Times and
Village Voice.
Cheers,
-Ed Cummings
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:28:37 -0400
To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest <[email protected]>
From: bernieS <[email protected]>
Subject: SWLfest film "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee
Tiles" screening in Philly
For those of us not too far away from Philly, you might want to come
into town for a screening of the excellent documentary film you
enjoyed (or missed!) at the SWLfest this year: "Resurrect Dead: The
Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles." It won Best Director of Documentary
at Sundance this year! The Director Jon Foy chose the 2011 SWLfest
as the premier (private) screening venue as a Thank You for all the
help we gave him and his staff for making the documentary a success.
Much of it was filmed at the 2006 SWLfest, and it features some of
our inimitable characters there--as well as an intriguing story line
that includes mysterious pirate shortwave broadcasts. Definitely
worth seeing, even if you saw it before. It's playing at
International House (3701 Chestnut Street in Phildelphia) on Sept 8,
10, 11, 12. See you there!
http://www.resurrectdead.com
Cheers,
-Ed Cummings
At 11:10 AM 9/10/2011, Richard Cuff wrote:
If you are in the Philly region and missed the special screening of
the Sundance award-winning documentary "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of
The Toynbee Tiles" we had at the Fest in March, you have a chance to
see the film over the next few days - there are showings today
(Saturday) through Monday at the International House on Market Street
in University City. The review linked below touches on the shortwave
radio connection in the film; the 2006 Winter SWL Fest appears in a
pivotal sequence.
http://origin.avclub.com/philadelphia/articles/toynbee-tile-investigators-jon-foy-and-colin-smith,61093/
Those of you distant from Philadelphia might want to create a Google
News Alert to flag when the film may be coming to your city.
Thanks to Kim Elliott for the heads up!
Rich Cuff
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