It did indeed make the list...I had forgotten you had already posted the heads-up - there goes the memory...!
Thanks for planting the SWL Fest flag, Ed, and promoting the hobby! Rich On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, bernieS <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Swlfest mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest >> >> To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL >> shown above. >> >> For more information on the Fest, visit: >> >> http://www.swlfest.com >> http://swlfest.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Swlfest mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ Swlfest mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. 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