From: esperanza collado (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2008 - 15:20:32 PDT
In response to William Wees and the term Underground Film, this is what Ken
Jacobs told me a few months ago. I hope Ken doesn't mind me putting this
here!
"I came up with the term Underground Film in the
Fifties, when I was filming the outrageous Jack Smith and thinking of
the WW2 political underground, the Resistance. I was surprised to
see the expression one day on an art- theater marquee advertising a
show of Vanderbeek's films. We didn't know each other then but had a
mutual friend. But I never did get around to asking him directly had
the friend passed it on to him."
2008/6/7 brett garten <email suppressed>:
> Might be wrong but isn't it first used in the book Films Beget Films by Jay
> Leyda
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> Indecisive? Visit the Chauvel Cinematheque Archive at
> http://www.brettgarten.blogspot.com
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> On 08/06/2008, at 7:05 AM, William Wees, Dr. wrote:
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> Good question. Although I've written extensively on found footage/collage
>> films, I've never discovered the original source of the term. It's a bit
>> like "underground film," for which there are several candidates as
>> originator of the term.
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>> --Bill Wees
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>> From: Experimental Film Discussion List on behalf of Marcel Schwierin
>> Sent: Sat 6/7/2008 12:31 PM
>> To: email suppressed
>> Subject: the term found-footage
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>> Dear Frameworkers,
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>> does anybody knows when, where and by whom the term "found-footage"
>> was invented, replacing the older term "collage" for those films?
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>> Thanx in advance for any hint,
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>> Marcel
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>> Marcel Schwierin ::: curator ::: filmmaker
>> Chausseestr. 11 ::: 10115 Berlin ::: Germany
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-- Esperanza Collado