Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-27 Thread Mark Toscano
, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Mark Toscano fiddy...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Dominic Angerame dominic.anger...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-27 Thread Francisco Torres
be able to assist. Mark On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Mark Toscano fiddy...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Dominic Angerame dominic.anger...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-25 Thread Dominic Angerame
I have heard this complaint for decades from filmmakers who have their originals stored in Du Art. This includes Sandy Daley who could not retrieve her original 16mm negs of Robert Having His Nipple Pierced. In the late 80's Du Art (the supposed Rolls Royce of Labs) wanted to charge her a fortune

Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-25 Thread Francisco Torres
1n 1988 I had the ''pleasure'' of having to spend 2 weeks excavating the facilities of Montclair Print in the far west side looking for any material that belonged to the production company I worked for. It was a nightmare, they had no real filing system, the place occupied many floors of a HUGE

Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-25 Thread Dominic Angerame
sounds like imagery from a sci fi story da On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.com wrote: 1n 1988 I had the ''pleasure'' of having to spend 2 weeks excavating the facilities of Montclair Print in the far west side looking for any material that belonged to

[Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-23 Thread Bill Seery
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/movies/at-duart-thousands-of-unclaimed-films.html?_r=1 Better get them while you can. I've seen plenty of films I've worked on sitting around there. No mention of all of the films that have been tossed in the dumpster over the past few years. Bill Seery

Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-23 Thread Pip Chodorov
Thanks for the article Bill. When DuArt was closing they were charging an arm and a leg to release negatives, supposedly years of storage fees that had accrued over the years. In 2011 Jeff Kreines alerted me that I had a can there, and Standish Lawder's negative of Catfilm for Ursula was

Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-23 Thread Mark Toscano
Pip - does that mean you got the Catfilm original out for Standish? That's one of his originals that didn't turn up in his collection. Thanks, Mark On Aug 23, 2014, at 1:01 AM, Pip Chodorov framewo...@re-voir.com wrote: Thanks for the article Bill. When DuArt was closing they were

Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-23 Thread Pip Chodorov
Hi Mark, Yes I rescued the negative in May 2012 (I mentioned it to you by email that June) but Standish didn't reply to my messages. Finally I called him in February 2013 and he asked me to drop the negative at New York Filmmakers Coop with MM Serra. I was not in New York to do that so the

Re: [Frameworks] Duart Vault in the NY Times

2014-08-23 Thread Francisco Torres
them labs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q 2014-08-23 14:28 GMT-04:00 Pip Chodorov framewo...@re-voir.com: Hi Mark, Yes I rescued the negative in May 2012 (I mentioned it to you by email that June) but Standish didn't reply to my messages. Finally I called him in February