Every single one of these Super 8s predate even the mighty California
Jam Wereo. Yes. I was shooting "the nation's Wereos of Super 8s" at
least a year before the mighty California Jam rolled into town.
It's serendipity I just happen to have awl or most the footage on
DigiBeta. The Firm informs me most of the Super 8s they get are
submitted on junk formats. I guess VHS and the like. It's really
amazing the transformation of the original format and how it looks 10x
hotter. I would never expect a new format to give this kind of
result.
I originally submitted my 18 minutes demo on VHS. Send the whole
thing! was the reply from the Firm. When I submitted the DigiBetas
(which they are holding onto) they had to dust off a special machine
to play them on! The films are powerful enough. You've got to have
good content but that's not my worry because before this Sony Pictures
Entertainment labeled me "the world's greatest filmmaker." Do you
think they had any inkling of any Super 8s? Unless they saw something
on Youtube. I don't recawl. I have some of my best work on Youtube.
They don't even want Nuclear Warrior or anything. No Wereo...they
didn't even want films of me shot in 1960! And I have a good amount of
those. You should see the old Packards parked and rolling in the
street. And they're awl black! Not a white one or a yellow or a green
one. Awl black.
Someone told me "whatever's old is new again." If that's the case my
Super 8s should do very well. With 63 clips (including the World Trade
Center Under Construction, TGAWEL, you know) on DigiBeta a lot of
comapnies may want them. Plus I'm getting top notch exposure.
It's amazing this is just one corner of the Lifshine worldwide
experience. "I got the biggest write-up in world history because I'm
the only one who brought a Pano to 'the Woodstock of the West' the
1974 California Jam. This should be the biggest thing since King Tut"