From: 40 Frames (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Jan 26 2008 - 13:27:59 PST
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> On 1/26/08, Ed Halter <email suppressed> wrote:
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> > [....] there are vast lacunae in the written record (at
> > least in English)--but I don't think the "Canyon Cinema defense" is
> > purely
> > spurious. I think it points to the greater fact that this field is a
> > rather
> > small, impoverished one, and access to materials, documents and the
> > films
> > themselves is much more difficult versus commercial cinema, gallery art
> > and
> > other forms (although this is getting better), and only relatively
> > recently
> > has, say, archiving this work been taken very seriously. It's not an
> > excuse,
> > but I do think it is the nature of the field that has to be appreciated.
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Forgot to mention the other barriers to showing films, such as rent,
electricity, liability insurance (public safety),
and ADA compliance.... as well as the expense of running projectors, esp
good ones.
BTW, what book(s) were folks talking about? ; )
-Alain
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