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This is my second experimental film from college (BYU). I had many film classes with Aaron Eckhart. In this, my second film class, I starred Aaron and my sister. I was trying to hook them up. Didn’t work. I always enjoyed working with Aaron. Very creative, pleasant, funny, easy to work with. I starred him in several films. Keep your eye here for more examples: www.mellenheadprods.com I also worked with Aaron in the shooting of a terrible vampire movie. My wife starred with him in several of Neil LaBute’s plays (BASH, etc.) also at BYU. A great school really. Aaron was always the teacher’s pet. My theory teacher could hardly keep her eyes off of him. Aaron was a bit critical of my directing style, said it made him feel like he was in “the Lon Chaney school of over-acting.” I got a good laugh out of that. I do like over-actors (Claus Kinsky is my Favorite actor). Love Japanese over-actors too (see Kwaidan). ONE MORE STORY: So we were in a hurry and I asked Aaron to change the 16mm film reel we were shooting for me. He got in a car/black bag/daylight protected reel and tried to change it out. Gave up after 15 minutes and said he couldn’t do it. So I took over. I got confused and put the same reel back in that he was taking out. SO… All the superimpositions you see in this film were accidents that I blamed on Aaron at first. Though I never criticized him. When I got the footage back, I was only disappointed for an hour. I actually came to LOVE the accident. Got into the …

One of the earliest surviving “live” sitcoms of the 1950′s is Wally Cox’s “Mister Peepers”. The show aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. Unlike “I Love Lucy” which was shot on film, “Mister Peepers” was aired live and exists today because it was saved via the kinescope process (basically, putting a 16mm camera in front of a TV monitor and filming the screen). Due to the nature of the show and the way it was saved, the picture quality is not that amazing. (But, its historical value as one of the earliest TV series still available to see today makes up for this!) What we have here (in four parts) is the original unaired pilot for the series (circa early 1952). (Look for a young Walter Matthau as the coach!) Unlike the aired episodes, there is no audience, so the scenes seem rather quiet. This series is very low-key and probably will seem quaint and rather boring to those folks used to what passes for entertainment today. But, as the series progresses, you tend to find yourself rooting for Robinson Peepers, as he genuinely is a nice guy! (BTW, if you like the show, you really should buy the two volumes of episodes out on DVD. About half the series has been released so far, and more support might get the rest of it released!)

One of the earliest surviving “live” sitcoms of the 1950′s is Wally Cox’s “Mister Peepers”. The show aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. Unlike “I Love Lucy” which was shot on film, “Mister Peepers” was aired live and exists today because it was saved via the kinescope process (basically, putting a 16mm camera in front of a TV monitor and filming the screen). Due to the nature of the show and the way it was saved, the picture quality is not that amazing. (But, its historical value as one of the earliest TV series still available to see today makes up for this!) What we have here (in four parts) is the original unaired pilot for the series (circa early 1952). (Look for a young Walter Matthau as the coach!) Unlike the aired episodes, there is no audience, so the scenes seem rather quiet. This series is very low-key and probably will seem quaint and rather boring to those folks used to what passes for entertainment today. But, as the series progresses, you tend to find yourself rooting for Robinson Peepers, as he genuinely is a nice guy! (BTW, if you like the show, you really should buy the two volumes of episodes out on DVD. About half the series has been released so far, and more support might get the rest of it released!)

A track by the Manchester band Arficeden simply entitled Football accompanies footage from what was until recently an uniquely simple film. It’s called ‘Football as Never Before’ – the East German director Hellmuth Costard and the rest of his crew; Manfred Treutel, Stanislav Szomolányi Dieter Matzka, Fritz Schwennicke, Wolfgang Fischer, Jürgen Jürges and Peter Kaiserhad; trained their 16mm cameras exclusively on George Best before, during and after Manchester United played Coventry City in a league game at Old Trafford on the 12th of September 1970. “There is an ability which is being lost by so many people; that is – only to watch a simple activity.” – Words spoken by the televison announcer before the film’s first transmission in Germany on the 29th of March 1971. The film was screened at the Cornerhouse in Manchester on the 22nd of May 2006. Arficeden can be heard and contacted here: www.myspace.com where information on their forthcoming gigs can also be found… “Three chaps and a microphone, which lies vacant and forlorn centre stage. This band are instrumental, maybe post rock, slightly stoned jazzateers and heavy with timings and guitars. The songs are long and intricate, but each player engages fully and impressively with the other. It can be an onerous soundtrack at times – these are pretty solid but stoic tunes, but when the guitars do burst out, hell, they make the compact trio sound like the four horsemen. Arficeden are intelligent craftsmen, well versed on …