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Title: Interesting bit of film history Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on February 11, 2013, 03:58:25 PM http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/movies/the-kidnappers-foil-a-local-talent-national-treasure.html?smid=pl-share&_r=1& (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/movies/the-kidnappers-foil-a-local-talent-national-treasure.html?smid=pl-share&_r=1&)
"Beginning in the 1930s the Texas-born filmmaker Melton Barker spent nearly four decades scurrying across America with a script and a camera, methodically making and remaking the same two-reel film" "She estimates that Barker made hundreds of versions of “The Kidnappers Foil,” but fewer than 20 have been unearthed and digitized." I find this fascinating indeed... a real (heh "Reel") old school con man. -Ed Title: Re: Interesting bit of film history Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on February 11, 2013, 05:21:34 PM I want to add that he managed to get archive footage of rural dialects that have never been recorded, regional speech differences sort of interest me, so this caught my eye.
-Ed Title: Re: Interesting bit of film history Post by: tracy on February 12, 2013, 03:35:25 PM He must have either loved his script or just couldn't quite get another one written. Interesting indeed. :smile:
Title: Re: Interesting bit of film history Post by: LilCerberus on February 12, 2013, 10:07:10 PM I was recently an extra Relativity Redux by Ramona Taylor.
She said it was a remake of a film she made five years ago. It makes me wonder how it would be for a director to be so passionate about a script, that they keep remaking the same movie... Either til they get it right, or until they have a veritable library of different interpretations of the same thought. |