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Jonah
- We may want to give some sort of thanks or credit to other Colorlab people and/or Dirk's boss Mark from BVDM (it was technically his decision to sponsor Orphans).

''[WF] There are 6 or 7 worker bees at Colorlab. Maybe we don't have the space to credit all of them with a thank-you.''

- Did we get graphics elements from anyone besides Dan? (Iris, Sandra, Siobhan)

Text fixes: WALBIS Essay p.2: Zaragosa -> Zaragoza [SE] FIXED

WALBIS Essay p.3, 1st paragraph, last line: house -> housed [SE] FIXED

Walter
RO-REVUS

-HFS. Can "Nutty" get any more cute? I don't think so. [SE] FIXED

 AMOS POE

-At the end of the Amos Poe essay section, the "title" button doesn't lead to the Amos Poe title card. [RE:JONAH] WHAT THE EFF?!?!? IT ACTS LIKE THERE IS NO ASSET AND YET THERE IS AN ASSET

Stefan
- bad link 1: AMOS POE>about film>next page takes you to pg.2 of Acrobat Essay [on a playstation 2, when you click menu at this point, it takes you to H.Lee Waters]

[WF] FIXED.

- on my macbook when you click the "menu" button in dvd player, it says "action not permitted"

''[WF] Hmmm. It seems to work fine on my olde fashioned PowerBook G4. [SE] This is at the point of being in the ACROBAT essay - sorry to be unclear''

nitpickies:

- Can the aspect ratio of menu screens be 16x9?

''[WF] Are you insane? J/K. I think we should keep it 4:3, as most every part of the content is 4:3.''

- when you are cycling left and right through essay pages, the cursor defaults to the menu position, when intuitively you want to just keep clicking page by page. so if you don't notice that it went back to menu, you click and it will take you out of the essay.

''[WF] Gooood call. Actually, 86 that last comment. I LIKE this defaulting to the middle. After your post, I have been playing with it (of course, the defaulting cursor doesn't matter so much for computer-watching) and feel like its defaulting to the middle button is nice and impartial. I vote to leave, but commend your powers of observation.''

Dan
'''Sun. March 28 notes

1. The images are cropped, at least on some films, where it is obvious. e.g., 0-REVUS TALK ABOUT WORMS. The title screen has been cropped left in other video versions I have seen. But not as badly as this, where we lose the whole first letter. Colorlab transfer error?

[WF] RO-REVUS title cropping is a result of original 16mm title not being "title-safe."

e.g., it looks as if the bottom is cropped in the first title care of WORLD'S YOUNGEST ACROBAT.

''[WF] Again, there seems little we can do to remedy obfuscations of titles on original material. No error has been introduced by Colorlab, or us.''

2. JENKINS ORPHANAGE BAND, 'About the film',  text screen 1 of 7

Line 5 has the justification phenomenon of a line with too-wide spaces between each word. The easy fix would be to put spaces before/after the slash marks in Sound/Music/Voice.

[SE] FIXED

screen 2 of 7 give a more accurate preservation history of the film than the Preservation Note for JENKINS O B.

Perhaps the preservation note and its button could be deleted. That's not essential, but it would avoid hurting the feelings of the old timers at SC Newsfilm, whose feeling are easily hurt. The Jenkins footage was (as far as I could tell from their squirrelly communications) preserved -- but not printed -- before Orphans came along. Film Technology made a partial print for Orphans 3 and a full print' with restored BluWave sound for Orphans 4. Plus the preservation note says 'restored by Universal Studios', which in Hollywood would be read as not giving credit to BluWave Audio.

3. TALES FROM TAMIMENT the credit screen says b/w, BUT the film is color tinted.

[WF] Added 'color tinted' before b/w.

the credit screen says 21 mins. but the film on the disk times out at 26:59.

[WF] Changed to '27 mins.'

4. Home to H. Lee Waters  text screen 1 of 3

The first sentence now suffers from the fact that we decided to deleted the credit line that I had originally put above it.

'Cast: Attendees of the 4th Orphan Film Symposium, “On Location: Place, Space, and Region"'

I suppose it's too late to fix now. But if I could rewrite it, I would have the first line read: 'The theme of the 2004 U of SC symposium (place and region), mandated that there.....

If you were trying to add the text without going over word count, the second line has a phrase that could be deleted ('that there had to be' -- that phrase is dead weight and easily cut.) [SE] FIXED

[WF] I think we can fix all of this text, don't worry. Thanks for the corrections.

5. preservation note for NYU Surveillance Film

SHOULD THIS NOTE MENTION THAT the 16mm film is archived as part of the Papers of John G. Mason? identified as an NYU student (who was active in the Students for a Democratic Society? [SE] FIXED

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SATURDAY below

• About this DVD takes us to the “About the Orphan Film Symposium” notes (“Gentle colleague…”)

''[WF] Fixed. Now, it takes us to the proper page.''

• About the Orphan Film Symposium takes us to the Gentle colleague note, BUT, the running title for these 3 screens reads “About Orphans.” I’d prefer it to say either “About the Orphan Film Symposium” or About “Orphans” -- with Orphans in scare quotes. Also OK is “About the symposium.” Unify across the 3 screens.

[WF] Unified change of all 3 to "About the Orphan Film Symposium"

• About Orphans 3/3 First line, second paragraph: The word orphanistas I always put in italics. If not italics, then in “quotes.” And of course here the justification breaks the word into 2 lines. If you can fix it to break before “or-“, I would prefer that orphanistas appear in an un-broken, un-hyphenated form.

WORKS Is it trouble to make the titles (and not just the little blue boxes) into buttons?? Or to make bigger buttons?

[JONAH FIX?]

Barbara Goldsmith P&C Dept credit on two consecutive pages [probaby ok] NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES  “logo” Can some white space be added to the border area?

[JONAH FIX?]

Musical scores [keep long list of names on screen a bit longer] Can each composer be credited with the film he/they scored? or is that redundant, since that info appears with each film? Also, off-set the Steinhardt program header that sits above the names of the music people. Perhaps bold or underscore, or just extra line break before the names begin. The subheading (Steinhardt, etc), the personal names, and the titles of the first two people all look alike, fontwise. In addition to making the subheading stand out a bit, it might read more easily if the job titles were in parentheses.

COMMENTARIES Maybe give nicknames for Joe Bowie (Ro-Revus) or Joe “Ro-Revus” Bowie

''[WF] Changed. Went with Joe "Ro-Revus" Bowie.''

Clyde John Ruhland (World’s Youngest Acrobat) Clyde John Ruhland (World’s Youngest Acrobat of 1929) or some such…. or again, this may be redundant.

''[WF] Changed. Went with (World's Youngest Acrobat) due to space constraints.''

Notes  [keep long list of names on screen a longer]

Permissions & Print Sources --- [definitely needs more screen time]

CORRECTION: “Moving Image Research Collections” should not be followed by NYU Libraries. MIRC needs to be moved down to follow “University of South Carolina.” Delete “of the.” If “University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections” won’t fit on one line, put an extra line break before it. Perhaps park an ampersand in that line break. Viz. The South Carolina Educational TV Network &	University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections

Special Thanks Ronald Sadoff should be Ron Sadoff (as it is under music credit)

CORRECTION: “Andrew Uhrich” in 2 places. You can check with him, but I think he’s always either “Andy Uhrich” or “Jonathan Andrew Uhrich.” (If you ask google.com for “Andrew Uhrich” it asks if you don’t mean “Andy Uhrich.” )

[WF]: Uhrich credited as he requested, in person.

Alice
Just a few things I noticed: In Credits: Missing University Archives N. Cricco J. Bunde & Tamiment M. Nash E. Gottfried

Permissions Add Tamiment Institute (it's for Tales from Tamiment)

Typo: Jenkins Orphanage Band: Preservation notes; missing “of” in a DigiBeta transfer OF an original fine grain…[SE] FIXED