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
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
He must have either loved his script or just couldn't quite get another one written. Interesting indeed. :smile:
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.