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[Alan Sondheim]

Leslie Thornton, experimental filmmaker, works with a lot of older films 
all the way back before Edison; she has footage of early rail journeys. 
For that matter I have a 20 minute video I just shot of the Laurel Line 
Trolley outside Scranton Penna. - I changed the sound a bit, and I'm using 
it in an upcoming show in L.A. - Alan

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, eyescratch at gmail.com wrote:

> Yes, it reminded me of reading virilio in college - the academic environment 
> being very much smitten by _reflexivity in film_, i.e. you see the hand push 
> the button in the tragic end, sometimes lost in virilio's musings on vectors 
> of smart bombs. We watched a film in that time, shot from the front of a tram 
> at the advent of film as an attraction in the amusement parks. The version we 
> watched was done by an experimental filmmaker who slowed the deliberate 
> forward momentum of the original to a crawl on an optical printer. Wish I 
> could remember the name of the filmmaker, but it escapes me at the moment.
>
>
> On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:03 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>> incredible video - I've seen a number of pieces w/ho &other small guage 
>> model trains - Alan
>> 
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>> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, eyescratch at gmail.com wrote:
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>>> 
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>>> http://www.asciimation.co.nz/cameracar/mov/cameracar.mpg
>>> 
>>>
>>>              .another dose of I don't need an apology,
>>>                           I just need you to suffer[sm]
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