From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 11:14:37 PST
Sorry, just remembered that Ben Van Meter also made a trailer for his feature Naked Zodiac (ca.1969-70), but it's lost (as is the majority of the feature).
Mark Toscano
--- On Tue, 2/15/11, Mark Toscano <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Mark Toscano <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Trailers
> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <email suppressed>
> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 11:04 AM
> Robert Nelson and William Wiley made
> a trailer for The Great Blondino, called The Great Blondino
> Preview. It's about 2.5 minutes and features a few
> bits and pieces from the film, plus an extended sequence
> introducing the cast and crew who all appear on screen
> wearing the Blondino outfit. I think it hasn't been
> seen since 1967 or so, for the most part. I was able
> to restore it a couple of years ago, but it hasn't really
> shown anywhere.
>
> Ben Van Meter made a trailer for Marijuana Hell, which was
> a feature film project he was doing with The Congress of
> Wonders group. But only one or two sequences ever got
> done, so the trailer and a film called Interrogation (From
> Psyche Patrol) are the only things that got released.
> This would've been about 1968-69.
>
> In about 1975, Chris Langdon took an aborted film project
> called Love Hospital and edited the little film that had
> been shot into a standalone trailer for a film that never
> got made. The resulting piece is called Love Hospital
> Trailer.
>
> But for me, most significantly, Chris Langdon also made
> about 8-10 trailers for her experimental shorts, all between
> 1973-74. She was at that time in school at Cal Arts,
> producing some of the most incredible and hilarious short
> experimental works, and was fairly prodigious in her
> output. Because she made so much stuff, she hit upon
> the idea of making trailers for the films, as a way of
> showing more to her advisory committee at school.
>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/15/11, graeme hogg <email suppressed>
> wrote:
>
> > From: graeme hogg <email suppressed>
> > Subject: [Frameworks] Experimental Trailers
> > To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <email suppressed>
> > Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 4:34 AM
> >
> > Do people know of any examples of experimental
> trailers, ie
> > trailers
> > for experimental films. Trailers are typically a
> marketing
> > tool used
> > to help pre-sell commercial features, I know but they
> are a
> > 'form'
> > nevertheless and I wondered if anyone had explored
> them on
> > this basis?
> >
> >
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