'Time Bomb'
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One of our clients just requested "news footage" of events from a movie. As in, the equivalent of asking for footage of the native uprising on Pandora. I think I was as diplomatic as I could be in my email response, as I did *not* say "Unfortunately we can only provide footage of events from the real world."
Heh. I've heard of people requesting footage of Jesus's crucifixion (or resurrection) and of the first landing on the moon - taken from the moon's surface.
I did *not* say "Unfortunately we can only provide footage of events from the real world."
Jessica, I admire your restraint.
Oh Sean. {{{}}} I do hope you'd get better, fast.
and of the first landing on the moon - taken from the moon's surface.
As if they had a second camera in the studio where the "landing" was made.
((Sean))
We get a request for footage of the Titanic pulling into New York harbour about once every couple of months. At this point we just automatically send them the clip of the sister ship.
(My favorite, though, has got to be the request we got for footage of Columbus discovering America, with the helpful addendum "It's okay if it's black & white.")
and of the first landing on the moon - taken from the moon's surface.
This we actually do have, but it's a simulation and clearly labeled as such onscreen. (Rather than just show Cronkite's face the whole time, they were cutting back and forth from the studio to the simulation to some NASA diagrams etc etc.)
We get a request for footage of the Titanic pulling into New York harbour about once every couple of months.
They do know it sank on the way to New York, don't they? There was a little movie made about 14 years ago they might have heard of...
Wasn't there footage of the Lusitania leaving New York on its way to its sinking, or was that just a photo that I know I've seen in history books?
(My favorite, though, has got to be the request we got for footage of Columbus discovering America, with the helpful addendum "It's okay if it's black & white.")
Anybody else wishing there animations of wood-cut style artwork to send?
We get a request for footage of the Titanic pulling into New York harbour about once every couple of months. At this point we just automatically send them the clip of the sister ship.
(My favorite, though, has got to be the request we got for footage of Columbus discovering America, with the helpful addendum "It's okay if it's black & white.")
For those of you who are watching at home, one sociology student is totally laughing her ass off thinking how hard/serious Baudrillard would laugh at it
The fact that you lack the footage is disgraceful, Jessica.
I'd suggest you'd hire actors and make a DIY production of every major historical event, from the murder of Tiberius Gracchus on. And then go and sell it to the ignorants as the Actual Footage of.
You know you want to.