Interesting bit of film history

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

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

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

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

[tracy]

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

[LilCerberus]

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.