tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531345904528580427.post3177184326440909138..comments2024-03-24T20:01:47.103-07:00Comments on Hell On Frisco Bay: Cosmic Voyage (1936)Brian Darrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17693169310367670898noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531345904528580427.post-21312979115929258972014-06-01T00:31:49.679-07:002014-06-01T00:31:49.679-07:00Lawrence, thanks for the comment. Leyda's asto...Lawrence, thanks for the comment. Leyda's astonishing tome (which I've only read a portion of, I must admit) came first to mind when reading Atkinson's line, but I didn't have it handy at the time. Glad to get your fact-check. Also nice to see you at the Dwan this morning. Lovely restoration by Travey Goessel and Rob Byrne, who I had a chance to speak with at some length this evening between screenings about the necessity of film projection for proper presentation of various silent-era film speeds. Glad there's still a "fetishist" in a prominent place at SFSFF. As to that Bay Area Reporter article, don't place more stock in it than your own Film On Film Foundation site in regards to format information; her count it missing two definite 35mm presentations: Midnight Madness and Dragnet Girl.Brian Darrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693169310367670898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531345904528580427.post-19682093275227439842014-05-31T15:39:01.704-07:002014-05-31T15:39:01.704-07:00Brian: Michael Atkinson didn't check his Jay L...Brian: Michael Atkinson didn't check his Jay Leyda carefully enough. In what is still arguably the best general book on Russian and Soviet film in English, "Kino" (1960) Leyda says: "In this period there was even an excursion,by no means the last, into outer space and science-fiction, with COSMIC JOURNEY." Not much, but it was actually mentioned,<br />I won't get into Anita Monga's specious comparison of the difference between nitrate and acetate, with the difference between film and video, at this point. Just call me, to borrow her similar comment from this week's Bay Area Reporter, a proud "format fetishist."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14847533854297507334noreply@blogger.com