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I have worked in the film and television industry for over 30 years. Strangely enough I didn’t meet many others in the business who were die hard home film aficionados other than Tarantino and a very few others.
But I had a remarkable super 8 coincidence when I took a job to work on a PBS show in Alaska. Back then I was a tech and just went to wherever they would fly me. I was on a very small plane to film in a small frozen Inuit village called Shismaref. I was thinking “why do I recall that name?”
Then it dawned upon me that I had sold Derann print of Halloween to someone in that very place to someone many months earlier.
When I got there I started asking around and it was such a small village that I found the double wide of the native Eskimo who collected films. I went up the steps to his porch and frozen along with many others was the discarded box I had sent him the print in. I knocked and met a young collector (I was young then too) who greeted me with the enthusiasm that super 8 collectors know. His father used to have a small theater in the village and he was carrying on the tradition of showing films for his drinking buddies in his home. Such a strange and wonderful experience.
But I had a remarkable super 8 coincidence when I took a job to work on a PBS show in Alaska. Back then I was a tech and just went to wherever they would fly me. I was on a very small plane to film in a small frozen Inuit village called Shismaref. I was thinking “why do I recall that name?”
Then it dawned upon me that I had sold Derann print of Halloween to someone in that very place to someone many months earlier.
When I got there I started asking around and it was such a small village that I found the double wide of the native Eskimo who collected films. I went up the steps to his porch and frozen along with many others was the discarded box I had sent him the print in. I knocked and met a young collector (I was young then too) who greeted me with the enthusiasm that super 8 collectors know. His father used to have a small theater in the village and he was carrying on the tradition of showing films for his drinking buddies in his home. Such a strange and wonderful experience.
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