From: Jeff Kreines (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 13:19:01 PDT
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> From: CommonTouch <email suppressed>
> Date: April 2, 2007 3:13:00 PM CDT
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> Subject: Re: [AMIA-L] Fwd: James Joyce's 16mm home movies
> Reply-To: Association of Moving Image Archivists <email suppressed>
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> Here's some: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/601496
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> On 4/2/07, Jeff Kreines < email suppressed> wrote:
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>> From: Jim Carlile <email suppressed>
>> Date: April 2, 2007 4:36:55 AM CDT
>> To: email suppressed
>> Subject: James Joyce's 16mm home movies
>> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List
>> <email suppressed>
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>> In Bennett Cerf's autobiography, the great American publisher of
>> Joyce tells a story about how the author bought a 16mm camera with
>> his earning from Ulysses.
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>> According to Cerf, Joyce loved the camera and always made it a
>> point of shooting movies of friends and visitors. I believe there
>> is even a still of Cerf and a lady friend taken from an
>> enlargement of one of these films, shot somewhere in Europe.
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>> This is pretty amazing. Has anyone ever seen these movies, or know
>> their whereabouts? Cerf says Joyce was mad about movies. One can
>> only imagine who is on them.
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>> I know-- good luck with the Joyce estate now, etc.
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>> Jim Carlile
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>> See what's free at AOL.com.
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