[Frameworks] Seeking MICROCULTURAL INCIDENTS IN TEN ZOOS; somewhat urgent

[Warren Cockerham]

Hi Seth,

Is it possible to travel to NYC with a film transparency scanner like one
of the Epson Perfection models and a laptop to scan frames at the Donnell?
You could easily shift the magenta colorspace in photoshop (or gimp if
you're anit-adobe) and output print-quality images. Maybe a friend in NYC
could do this and send them to you? Sorry, I don't live there anymore.

- Warren
(Chicago)

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Watter, Seth <seth_watter at brown.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am emailing on the off chance that someone might know about copies,
> either 16mm or high quality digital, of the film *Microcultural Incidents
> in Ten Zoos* by Ray L. Birdwhistell and Jacques D. van Vlack (1971? some
> sources say 1969). I would like to obtain images good enough to print, for
> a publication on Birdwhistell that is soon going to press.
>
> The title technically belongs to Drexel, but they have no copies there. I
> have a DVD of the film that I bought from Penn Media Sales before they went
> belly-up, but as you might expect, it does not look very good even as a
> DVD, let alone as an image on paper. The only other format they provide is
> an SD file--presumably made from the DVD.
>
> I know of 16mm copies at the Donnell Library in New York and at the Penn
> Museum Archives. Neither has been well cared for and both are
> super-magenta. The Human Studies Film Archive in D.C. has original camera
> rolls for the film, but not the particular segment I would like to
> reproduce. Of course, other results come up in Worldcat, in sometimes
> far-flung places...
>
> Please let me know if you have any clues, references, etc. Or forward to
> those who might. It would be much appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Seth Barry Watter
> Brown University
> Magic Lantern Cinema
>
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