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40 Captioned Photos in Groups
of 8
(For more detail, click
on each photo to enlarge.)
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25. Editing
the self-narrating "Tax Cuts" episode — another major
political issue of the period, affecting both domestic and foreign
policy. |
| 26. The
completed three-hour Story Edit of "Things of the Spirit."
Copies were sent to all project advisors and filmed interviewees
for review and comment. Complementary copies were also sent to major
donors. |
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27. Ilustrating
the Story Edit. Work product from research at film and photo archives
— including descriptions and reference copies from sources
nationwide. |
| 28. Reference
videos (at left) are made of archival film elements needed to illustrate
the completed Story Edit. As funding allows, archival scenes are
selected for remastering from nitrate originals. |
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29. Preparing
laboratory instructions for time-stretched remastering of archival
film scenes — this one of President Coolidge signing the
1926 tax cut bill.
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| 30. In
the film archives. Because no biographical film has ever before
been made on the personal and political life of Calvin Coolidge,
the needed visual material has remained unused and unseen on decomposing
nitrate film in archives across the country. |
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31. Most
of the relevant film cans have remained unopened for decades. |
| 32.
The nature of nitrate film decomposition. Because of its strong
visual preservation component, "Things of the Spirit"
will be completed on archivally stable motion picture film before
being transferred to transient video formats. |
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