Word: 16mm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weird story. The Stones asked Frank to make a movie about their 1972 tour, and he followed the Stones around with 16mm and Super 8 cameras, shooting whatever happened to be taking place in cinema verite style. Unfortunately, what took place turned out to be some pretty rough stuff, including the band's drug use, and later, when Keith Richards got busted for heroin in Toronto, the Stones were afraid that the film might be used as evidence against him and threatened a court order against its release...
...clearly, however, made use of a great many montage techniques in piecing together the various parts of the footage: part in color, part in black and white, part in Super 8 and part in 16mm. There is plenty of quick, handheld camera work, following the Stones through corridors and dressing rooms and fending its way through crowds...
Ross McElwee's amazing new film Sherman's March shares the best elements of home movies. The film's ostensible subject is the director Ross McElwee himself, and the photography and synchronized sound were taken by McElwee as he lugged his 16mm camera to secluded islands, mountain retreats and the guest bedrooms of a series of women from his romantic past. But unlike your basic home movie, McElwee has not sent forth a slew of random holiday footage. On the contrary, he has edited meticulously some 30 hours of hand-held adventure filming to produce a rueful, bittersweet...
...addition to entertaining the community, Backus says that the club will endeavor to make movies of its own. Since the cost of making an hour-long 16mm sound film is close to $15,000, Backus says that the film society has applied for money from the Undergraduate Council and the Office of the Arts to defray the costs. He adds that the club hopes for "pure profit" from the screenings in the Science Center...
...minute, 16mm color flick is one of only two film projects independent of Visual and Environmental Studies classes being done this year. Thirty students applied to the Office of the Arts for funding, but only Jonathan J. Scherick '84 of the Harvard Radcliffe Filmmaking Club got money--a $400 grant...