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Re: Movie Madness!!!



We used to have a number of magazine and television reporters who called up
our historical society and wanted a photograph of some famous person or
view- immediately. I was always amazed at how many times we got phone calls
for items they needed by their deadlines- which were always in the next hour
or so. (even though their feature stories had been planned months in
advance) And then they often had the nerve to say, well we don't have time
to wait for a copy of the photograph, just send us the original and we'll
send it back.
What hootzpa!

Renee Savits

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Berry [mailto:tberry@WCNET.ORG]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 11:56 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Movie Madness!!!


I've had two movie producers. Both did everything by phone from L.A. Both
had
fairly reasonable requests, reflecting some time having been taken to get
some
grasp of the subject before contacting me. Only problem was that one
presented
me with an impossible deadline and then didn't seem to understand why I
couldn't
just conjure up overnight a few snippets of footage from uncataloged  movies
and
videos. The other was much more realistic.

Best wishes,

Thomas Berry, Archivist
Historical Construction Equipment Association
16623 Liberty Hi Road
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone 419-352-5616
Fax 419-352-6086
tberry@wcnet.org
http://www.bigtoy.com



Scott, Kim A. wrote:

> Man, oh man!  This list is alive and well for off topic, Friday (or in
this
> case Thursday) wierdness threads, and I dig it!  I cannot imagine such
> chattering on one of the ALA listservs...but then, I have never tuned in
to
> them.  Moderators? ugh...they would spoil this thing forever...
>
> One thing on the movie thread that struck a distant chord of relevance was
> Roy's posting on movie people as archive customers.  How many of  you have
> had Hollywood types in your reading rooms?  How do they stack up in
> comparison to Genealogists?  Are they almost exclusively interested in
your
> photographs, or do they actually look at documents too?  My own experience
> with them has been very limited, and in each case all they wanted to look
at
> were photographs.  Once they saw how dismally we had them arranged, and
how
> much time it would take to peruse them, they fell back on good old
Hollywood
> imagination for costume and set design...
>
> Kim (wants to star in the film version of Mornings on Horseback) Scott
>
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