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I watched Blake (National Film Board of Canada)
There was a time of my life where I didn't do a lot of projected film: I was in college and then I was dating, and then I got married and had a house. During this time I came to like this Canadian filmmaker named Bill Mason. He made a lot of really great nature films including many about canoeing, which has been a passion of mine since I was a teenager.
When I went back into film big time around 2002, It was Super-8 sound. I searched far and wide on 8mm for Bill Mason, but he was nowhere to be found.
When I finally gave in and dipped a toe into 16mm about two years ago, it was mostly to gain access to different films, and I knew there was a lot of Bill Mason on 16mm because back in the day it was the NFB's prime distribution format. One of the first ones I snagged was Blake.
Blake is a nice 20 minute Bill Mason short about a man in love with flying small planes, and it follows him in his journey across Canada in a single engine, open cockpit biplane. There is much navigation by following roads and absolutely no hot towels in First Class!
I have it on both DVD and VHS (somewhere here), but still the same, to me it's special to see it in the way the filmmakers imagined even as they were standing behind their cameras.
YES, it's (more than) a little on the red side, but the cyan filters tame that.
There was a time of my life where I didn't do a lot of projected film: I was in college and then I was dating, and then I got married and had a house. During this time I came to like this Canadian filmmaker named Bill Mason. He made a lot of really great nature films including many about canoeing, which has been a passion of mine since I was a teenager.
When I went back into film big time around 2002, It was Super-8 sound. I searched far and wide on 8mm for Bill Mason, but he was nowhere to be found.
When I finally gave in and dipped a toe into 16mm about two years ago, it was mostly to gain access to different films, and I knew there was a lot of Bill Mason on 16mm because back in the day it was the NFB's prime distribution format. One of the first ones I snagged was Blake.
Blake is a nice 20 minute Bill Mason short about a man in love with flying small planes, and it follows him in his journey across Canada in a single engine, open cockpit biplane. There is much navigation by following roads and absolutely no hot towels in First Class!
I have it on both DVD and VHS (somewhere here), but still the same, to me it's special to see it in the way the filmmakers imagined even as they were standing behind their cameras.
YES, it's (more than) a little on the red side, but the cyan filters tame that.
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