From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 15:50:40 PST
I don't have the exact date handy at the moment, but Bill Moritz and Hildegard Platzner Lucas created a "libretto" (as they called it) for the film which was passed out with the program notes for a Kubelka show at Theatre Vanguard (Los Angeles), probably in 1974 (I can dig up the actual date if you're interested).
These notes were provided as accompaniment to a public program, and are publicly accessible at, among other likely places, the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles. So though this doesn't mean they're freely reproducible, they are definitely accessible for study and scholarship. My guess is that the copyright of this transcription/translation, if such a thing can be said to exist, would remain with the authors/their estates.
Also, this particular transcription derives (according to the notes) "merely from a single viewing of the film and listening to the recorded soundtrack several times. They are not authorized or authentic, probably contain errors, and certainly contain omissions."
Mark T
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Marc Couroux <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Marc Couroux <email suppressed>
> Subject: [FRAMEWORKS] Unsere Afrikareise subtitles
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:55 PM
> Hi all,
>
> I apologize if this has already been covered, but I'm
> looking for an English translation of the spoken parts of
> Peter Kubelka's Unsere Afrikareise - has anyone done
> this work? I understand of course that Kubelka himself is
> opposed to subtitles and intends that sound-image
> discordances "speak" for themselves without having
> to be grounded in precise semantics...(pace Michael
> Sicinski's notes at
> http://academichack.net/unseretrib.htm)...
>
> Cheers
> Marc
>
>
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