From: Marilyn Brakhage (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00:09 PDT
On Thursday, October 20, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Cari Machet wrote:
> that he could consider the optical printer a
> collaborator
> to my memory
> & that u would not optically re-print the original
> then
Stan didn't actually think of the optical printer operators as
"collaborators" (except in the case of the two films with Phil
Solomon), but used to say that Sam Bush (the optical printer at Western
Cine) was like a "performer" of pieces that he, Stan, had "composed."
I have just sent Mark some copies of letters from Stan to Sam Bush
that give instructions regarding the optical printing -- though there
was, at times, some latitude given in those instructions. And then
Stan would sometimes further edit what he got back from Sam, before an
interneg was made. Other times, as Mark has described, one optically
printed interneg is all there is. . . . Some of the original painted
materials were given away. Some of it is at the archive. Some I have.
Quite a bit was sent to MoMA for safe-keeping.
Marilyn
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