> each segment has a slightly different length.
About ten years ago, I was showing (nostalgia) in class, pondering the duration
of the shots, looking at a watch occasionally as the edits went by, and I had a
kind of revelation: Each shot is a 100' load. I don't know if any one's written
about
So, what’s the verdict here?
1. the critic was wrong
2. there are two variant versions of (nostalgia) on DVD
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According to my count, all of the narrations begin 5 seconds (up to 4 frames at
24fps, less in most cases) before the next image appears, with one second of
black between the burnt and the "raw."
> But Segal is so wrong: no narration begins 15 to 20 seconds *after* the next
> photograph
But Segal is so wrong: no narration begins 15 to 20 seconds *after* the next
photograph appears; they all begin before. That's not a precision problem;
that's a version problem. At least I think so. She can't have made this kind
of mistake, no?
But now I have Premiere open and I'm measuring
I don’t think there are two distinct versions. I suspect (though to be honest I
haven’t used a stop watch to time it) that Shira may be ascribing a precision
to the film which it in fact lacks—though the ascription is entirely
understandable since, as a foundational ‘structural film’ using a
But is the Treasures version the one Segal describes, and is that the, um,
authorized version? And is the one on the Odyssey collection, which Brand
worked on too, authorized as well? Are there two distinct versions circulating?
I just had that Treasures comp in my hands, but I returned it to
The transfer on the Treasures IV set was supervised by the inimitable Mr
Bill Brand, who knows the films intimately, and also has helped supervise
restorations and digital mastering of numerous other Frampton films.
Mark T
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Ken Eisenstein
Having checked with the usual suspects, I'm at a loss to explain the
discrepancy between the version of (nostalgia) on the 2012 Criterion disk and
the version described by a few folks, one being Shari Segal, who in a 2005
essay entitled From the Private to the Public" writes:
> Each voice-over