Jim Morrison's Nizo

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ric

hi,

at the following ucla link (memorial fund) are several photographs of Jim Morrison filming with a Super8 Nizo ciné camera. although a caption describes Morrison as in the act of filming his 1969 'H W Y' film, this feature was made in 35mm not 8mm. the mystery of Jim's (missing?) 8mm footage remains - what happened to this film / project?

http://www.subcin.com/scholarship.html

ric
 
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Jim Morrison - a rock artist with something slightly more to say about the world he found himself in - a tragic loss both to music and to film: a genre in which he left a personal vaccum - i wonder what happened to that S8mm film - and the ciné camera, come to that? HWY is still not commercially available: over 30 years after Jim Morrisson's untimely demise...

CootDog said:
VERY Awesome!

I love Jim... a visionary and artist. He changed my life.
Click to expand...

[i have had 2 copies of 'The Lords and New Creatures', both loaned out, both gone]
 
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I always wanted to take peyote in the desert but never had the chance. I have kids now and don't want to risk it. I personally know a couple of people that took it and forgot 2 years of their life. That is definately something I don't want to do. My wife and kids are my high now.... and filmmaking!
 
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Hi CootDog,

personally i don't advocate drug-taking. also, i think peyote is an Amerindian sacrament - something to contemplate - especially in a creative/cultural context; yes there are many high states of consciousness in our life - the best do not involve synthetic/external chemistry; dreams are altered states, relationships can be magical and in a sense, films can be perceived as hallucinations

i luv 8mm cos it's so portable and the costs don't propel me through bankrupcy court (yet); having said that, i find a heavy tripod + motion picture tripod head are pretty invaluable, which adds to the travelling weight; i have an ancient Fujica Z2 which i love cos it allows me to backwind (Single 8), then there's the Nizo S800 which does great lap dissolves (Super8); i also have a Canon 814 which i don't use any more because it's not as good as the Nizo

my projector is a Chinon Universal 8 which works well enough but doesn't like tape splices - i am working my way through 300 feet of film just now, replacing all the tape with cement splicing (Bolex Splicer)

it would be nice if the 8mm ciné medium had interchageable lenses to play with but the only camera i know which does this is Beaulieu - the only company still producing new ciné cameras i think - pity they don't match this with new projectors, though?

filmmaking is cool!

:)

ric
 
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Hi,

well there certainly appears to be Morrison footage/material out there that practically noone has ever seen? - check out the following from another forum -



- the UCLA Database called MELVYN [re]
Morrison films. I also came across a link from a seperate source
for a film from '64 called OBSURA. This latter film does not show up
in the UCLA database. I have cut and pasted the info
from my message board in hopes that it may be of some help in
answering your question:

OBSCURA

Playing at Laemmle Theatre - Monica 4 Plex Santa Monica on Monday,
February 17, 2003 at 3:00 PM as part of the Hempsters and Obscura
series.



"I'm interested in film because, to me, it's the closest
approximation in art that we have to the actual flow of
consciousness.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm
their own existence"

-Jim Morrison



Filmmaker Rod Pitman tracks history as auteur Jim Morrison creates
his first student film with roommate, poet-photographer Max Schwartz.
As a showcase for the long lost Morrison fiction film
narrative "First Love", Obscura chronicles the events surrounding a
unique slice of American silent cinema.

Shot in 1964, "First Love", is the only surviving work of Jim
Morrison as a University of California Los Angeles film student.
Jim's twisting truth as fiction tale reveals the real life
docudrama
of Max loosing his girlfriend Liz which seems to forshadow her role
as the passenger on Morrison's first LSD trip. Max Schwartz
provides
incomparable, rarely seen photos which include Allen Gingsberg and
Jim's college girlfriend Mary Francis. Those familiar with
Morrison
the poet-musician will find his signature voyuerism sardonic and
hauntingly familiar.

Director: Rod Pitman
Producer: Shane Jatho, Justin Case
Region: US
Runtime: 18 minutes
Format: Beta SP
Cast: Max Schwartz

Source:http://www.smff.com/smff/show_film.php?id=64

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Even though the above referenced article suggests that "First Love"
is the only student film of Jim Morrison's to survive, the UCLA Film
Data Base known as the MELYVL CATALOG reveals additional information:

Title: Five Situations For Camera, Recorder and People (a UCLA
Workshop Production/by Alex Prisadsky) Publisher: 196? Short Film -
Morrison, Jim - Sound - UCLA Film & TV Library Call No. FD0000062356

Title: Reading and Show: S.S.C Gallery Michael McClure, D.R. Wagner
and Jim Morrison 1943-1971 Publisher: s.l.:s.n, 196?) UCSB Film & TV
Library Call No. PS3563.A262Z3k42 Special Collection

Those of you familar with the early Morrison biographies may recall a
friend of Jim's, Felix Venable and of course Frank Liscinadro. The
UCLA Film and TV Archives also have films by Venable and Liscinadro
in their archives.


UCLA Film & Television Archives http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/


Since Jim's student films were destroyed there
are two films that show up in the Melvyl Database
Catalog at UCLA that Jim took part in. Both films
indicate they were made in 1960's but the dates are listed as 196?.

The first film Five Situations....Jim was a
soundman and the second was a poetry reading with McClure and Wagner

Title: Five Situations For Camera,
Recorder and People:
a UCLA Workshop production/by Alex Prisadsky

Publisher: (196?)

Notes: Short

Credit:
Photography: Ran Erde
Additional Photography:Richard Cowell and Alex Prisadsky
Sound, Jim Morrison
Others: Alberto Giraldo
Norm Sher
Ron Raley

Performers Cast:
Harlow Church (the bottle smasher)
Ron Jamison (the bowler)
Jaime Chavez
Huan Pham
Bill Loiterman
Allan Bernstein
Norm Sher
Ron Raley
Richard Crowell
Alberto Giraldo (others)

Language: English

Subject:
Student Films

Holdings: UCLA Film TV Library

Research Copy. Viewing on premises only.
1 reel of 1 (ca.300ft.):
opt sd., b&w; 16mm $3 safety print

Old Archive
Locationno. CL 5 45 #FD0000062356

UCLA Film TV Library - Study Copy. Viewing on premises only. 1
videocassette of 1 (VHS): sd., b&w; 1/2 in.

Copy added from inventory record without viewing inspection. #VA3445M

Reading and Show: S.S.C.
Gallery 8:30pm., May first:
Michael McClure, D.R. Wagner & Jim Morrison

Publisher (s.l:s.n, 196?)

Description broadside: ill; 56X42 cm.

Language: English
Other entries: McClure, Michael,
Wagner, D.R. (Donald R.), 1943-, Morrison, Jim
1943-1971

Holdings: UCSB Main Library, Special Collection
#PS3563.A262Z3k42

There are also films from Ray Manzarek, Frank
Liscinadro, Felix Venable's psychedelic film, Les Anges
Dorment that can be located in the Melvyl Catalog.



(Click Screenings, Collections, choose on-line
database as Melvyl Catalog. Search Author's name.)

UCLA - "Melvyn" Database Catalog
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/access/databases.html
 
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