From: Jeff Kreines (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 15:36:12 PDT
Begin forwarded message:
> From: PAUL SPEHR <email suppressed>
> Date: April 2, 2007 5:19:02 PM CDT
> To: email suppressed
> Subject: Re: [AMIA-L] Fwd: James Joyce's 16mm home movies
> Reply-To: email suppressed
>
>
> If I remember correctly, James Joyce managed a movie theater in
> Dublin in the early teens. The film person who knows Joyce best is
> Gosta Werner who has written on him. Gosta's in his 90's, but
> pretty spry. If you want to contact him contact me off list and I
> can dig out his address.
>
> Paul Spehr
> 17 Valley View Trail
> Fairfield, PA 17320
> 717 642-0049
> email suppressed
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Kreines
> To: email suppressed
> Sent: 4/2/2007 3:35:31 PM
> Subject: [AMIA-L] Fwd: James Joyce's 16mm home movies
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> 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>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I know-- good luck with the Joyce estate now, etc.
>>
>> Jim Carlile
>>
>>
>>
>> See what's free at AOL.com.
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>>
>>
>
__________________________________________________________________
For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.