The Wreck of the Zephyr
DESCRIPTION: FULL: This little piece has a story. In the fall of 1989 I was attending UNC-Greensboro earning my M.F.A. One of my assignments was to shoot a single frame animation using an old 16mm Bolex camera (which had a light leak!). I guess I considered this my first opportunity to use my old trusted b&w Mac 512k to try my hand at a new software package called VideoWorks (predecessor to Macromind Director). So using a Thunderscan (one of the first scanning devices for a Mac that worked in an old Imagewriter printer [it replaced the print cartridge]) I scanned all of these pictures out of this great children’s story. Each scan took about an half-hour! Four bit b&w images! I animated all of these scans in VideoWorks and then had this idea that I could shoot off my Mac screen my animation. Well I locked myself in my darkened apartment for three days and because my Bolex needed to be about 20 feet from the Mac screen for optimum focus, I shot over 12,000 frames. After each frame I had to walk 20 feet and hit the return key to move to the next frame, then back to the camera and shoot another frame, and on, and on! Well when it was done, I opened my window shades and lo and behold I had made a 20 foot path in my shag carpet in the living room! Hey it was start which got me into multimedia! Check out the last shot... there’s the Mac.
CREDIT: Executive Producer/ Filmmaker/Editor
ACQUISITIONS FORMAT: 16mm transfer to 3/4”
SOFTWARE: Analog SONY RM440 3/4” Cuts only editing system
HARDWARE: SONY
LINKS: http://www.uncg.edu/bcn/
