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At 3:53 PM 4/5/95 -0500, Donald Larsson wrote:
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>Kristine Butler writes:
>"I'd like to elicit a mass brainstorming effort: I'm working on an idea
>concerning films in which a pre-recorded message plays a part in conveying
>narrative information (an answering machine, a tape player, etc.).
>Example: in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pepa's boyfriend
>exists primarily as the messages he leaves on her answering machine.
>Anything you can think of would be greatly appreciated. More on this
>later. Thanks!!"
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>Do you mean only *electronically* pre-recorded messages? There are many, many
> examples of *print* messages having a role in the narrative.
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>Two electronic sources that come to mind are the original film verison of DEATH
> OF
>A SALESMAN, which includes a wire recorder, and the giant on-the-wall
> reel-to-reel answering maching in Mike Hammer's apartment in KISS ME DEADLY.
>
>Don Larsson, Mankato State U. (MN)
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who has been submitting ideas to
this effort. Just to let you know, I will be keeping in touch on the uses
I make of this information. At the moment I'm only information-gathering,
but my primary work on this will be in the summer and the fall. At
sometime in the nearish future, I'll send a copy of my prospectus to
SCREEN-L.
In response to Don Larsson's question, yes, I do only mean electronically
pre-recorded messages, as I am looking primarily at sound recordings.
Kris Butler
University of Minnesota
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