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Re: Movie Madness!!!



Our local paper pulls this stunt every so often, wanting a photo in the next
hour.  If we can get one pulled, we usually do let them check it out, but it is
to be returned yet that day, even if it is inconvenient for them.  Fortunately,
we have had a good relationship with them.

As long as we are talking about accuracy in historical movies, etc. I am
reminded of something that I read in a western novel when I lived in South
Dakota.  It was one of a series could be read in about 2 hours.  Anyway, the
hero was talking about Wild Bill Hickok, stating that Hickok had been marshall
in Deadwood, Dakota Territory right before he was shot.  Not true.  While he had
been marshall or sheriff at other places, in Deadwood, he was simply a gambler.


Just my 2 cents worth.

Janet Wendt
Janet M. Wendt, C.A.
Staff Archivist
Oregon State University Archives
94 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR  97331-2103
Telephone: 541-737-2165
Direct line: 541-737-4050
Fax: 541-737-0541
email: Janet.Wendt@orst.edu


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Renee Savits [SMTP:RSavits@LVA.LIB.VA.US]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 9:19 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      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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