[Frameworks] how many versions of Bruce Conner's Report?

[John Muse]

Excellent!  Thanks, Herb.  Great screening idea: it would be very interesting.

On Feb 5, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Herb Shellenberger <htshell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eight. 
> 
> "Report was actually shown in eight different versions – all of equal duration and with the same soundtrack – after its initial premiere at the Harvard Film Society in 1964. The final version – after which the previous iterations were destroyed, if they hadn’t already been obliterated in the process of revision – was not completed until 1967. "
> http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/cteq/report/
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> Depending on when collections acquired the film it could be different. I've wanted for a while to do a screening of as many prints of the film as possible, a report on Report. But that might end up being not too interesting in the end. 
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> -h
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> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:07 PM, John Muse <jmuse at sonic.net> wrote:
> Having just screened a 16mm print of Report rented from Michelle Silva and the Conner Family Trust and having watched the version up at UBU several times http://ubu.com/film/conner_report.html I am surprised when I read a 1966 review of Report by Robert Mosen (Film Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring, 1966, pp. 54-56) who describes the film this way:
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> > Conner opens Report with several minutes of a printed film loop of Jackie and Caroline as they approach, kneel at, and walk away from Kennedy's coffin which is lying in state.
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> And then:
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> > We go through a few loops before the sound track begins. It is a radio newscast of the five minutes of routine Dallas motorcade that preceded the assassination.
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> Finally:
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> > What follows the film loop and occupies the remaining ten minutes of the film can only be described as a tour de force of implicational montage. The image is a constant shuffle of several groups of footage. The first thing we see is a close-up of matador and bull in the thick of battle.
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> 
> This sounds like a different film.  How many versions were there?  What would Mosen likely have seen?
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> Thanks.
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> j/PrM
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