tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post5279535265622240313..comments2024-03-28T15:25:55.785-07:00Comments on Raybeard: Film documentary: 'FINDING VIVIAN MAIER'Raybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-35946815304233408862014-08-10T22:49:39.490-07:002014-08-10T22:49:39.490-07:00So many questions with no answers, F.B. Intriguing...So many questions with no answers, F.B. Intriguing, to say the least. Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-85635685606585469542014-08-10T17:06:06.793-07:002014-08-10T17:06:06.793-07:00Interesting read and life. Interesting read and life. Fearsome Beardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338879036238705400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-50559074585158008342014-08-10T04:39:40.533-07:002014-08-10T04:39:40.533-07:00Same happened at my cinema too, DD. Maybe 'sel...Same happened at my cinema too, DD. Maybe 'self-claimed expert' would have been closer the mark, as his was only one voice giving that opinion. Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-35257420371144036972014-08-09T09:20:53.649-07:002014-08-09T09:20:53.649-07:00"... though a language expert reckons that he..."... though a language expert reckons that her accent is an affectation."<br /><br />Our audience (almost a packed house) laughed politely when this 'expert' allowed that he had done his thesis on something like 'the duration of pauses between syllables' in the French language. But we can be forgiven, as this is a college town;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-38462315935418345982014-08-09T05:41:35.629-07:002014-08-09T05:41:35.629-07:00From what I remember about the film, C., all the p...From what I remember about the film, C., all the photos were undeveloped. I don't think that was the case with the relatively small amount of moving film. The finds of stills were entirely on untouched plates and unwound spools. I don't recall any mention of deterioration of original source, either on plate or film. Now whether the discoverer, Maloof, developed them then cropped them himself I can't say. But what came out, even if it's turns out to be have been a 'part-collaboration' is quite remarkable.<br />As for the fourth image above I'm fairly certain that that had not been tampered with as it was used to illustrate her technique of sometimes holding her box camera low so that the subjects would in no way be aware that they were being shot. I've no doubt that she'd intended to capture the two very different pairs of shod feet.<br /><br />Word has been getting round in this country that this is a film about an enigmatic subject of considerable interest and it's being taken up by more art-house cinemas than in the trial run I was lucky enough to catch. The screening I went to (one of only two) was reassuringly and surprisingly very well attended. If I hadn't happened to have caught the trailer of it in the previous week I wouldn't have had my curiosity aroused. Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-30855737350862425052014-08-09T03:30:09.954-07:002014-08-09T03:30:09.954-07:00I remember hearing about this find a few years ago...I remember hearing about this find a few years ago. When I first saw some of the images, my thought was - did she shoot the image that way, or was it cut and cropped by the new owner. If most of the film was un-developed, surely there were images that had faded over time. <br />Unless, of course, the film had been processed and all the new owner had to do with have the images printed. That would be where any cropping would come into play. As in images 4 and 5, for example. Did she shoot exactly that image, or was it cropped? Film developing and printing are two different processes.<br /><br />I hope I’m making sense, probably not.the cajunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10905358111623645338noreply@blogger.com