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

[Kelsey Velez]

The print at SAIC was acquired from the Conner family trust, so it's likely that the print you saw ('67) was the same as the one I'm referring to. Just a guess. 

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> On Feb 6, 2016, at 12:45, John Muse <jmuse at sonic.net> wrote:
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> Thanks, Kelsey.  I only know the (gorgeously printed) version available from Michelle Silva and the Conner Family Trust, which was until a few minutes ago also up at Ubuweb.  Do you mean that SAIC has the version that Mosen describes?  Or the '67 version now in distribution? 
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>> On Feb 6, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Kelsey Velez <kelsvelez at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> The School of the Art Institute is in possession of a different version of Report than the one mentioned. The sequence at the beginning of the film is footage of the motorcade just before the moment Mr. Kennedy was shot. If memory serves me right, the soundtrack begins the same way in the version at SAIC as it does in the version mentioned by Herb. Don't quote me, though. It was printed and purchased in 2014.
>> 
>> FYI.
>> Kelsey
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 09:15, John Muse <jmuse at sonic.net> wrote:
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>>> 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/
>>>> 
>>>> 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. 
>>>> 
>>>> -h
>>>> 
>>>> 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:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> And then:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Finally:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> This sounds like a different film.  How many versions were there?  What would Mosen likely have seen?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> j/PrM
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