creativepro.com - Bit by Bit: A Gadget for Film-to-Tape Transfer

I remember Paul Sharits and his tiny optical printer...Niagara Falls Whirlpool...slowly I stepped...step by step...frame by frame...There was a guy from Asia at the bottom taking photographs! This also looks like what he was talking about in animation, without the hotspots, which he thought a front surface mirror might be able to do. I think he worked for Disney animators once may have been tossed for being pro-union there in a very labor intensive work. His brother he said who had just died when I met him, made celebratory films of urban San Francisco. Paul Sharits was asked to attend the film festival in Cannes, France, but refused, as he felt Americans were not being treated very well there and he shared the letter he wrote with me one morning, in a very small class of experimental film analysis at the Gerald O'Grady's Media Center on Bailey Avenue in Buffalo, NY. He since died and they've named a theater downtown Buffalo after him (at hallwalls.org). He attended Antioch College in Ohio, and I moved him into Buffalo, NY. He has some paintings and sculpture at the Anthology Film Archives, "...film museum, archive, research library, and art gallery" at 32 Second Ave. (on Second Street) in a former courthouse across from a Marble Vault Cemetery, (there's two in the neighborhood, the first non-denomination ones in Manhattan) the site also once a Methodist Cemetery. It was moved in the mid-nineteenth century, yet some other remains were found in the late nineteenth century which required a NY State Legislature law to remove by the State Education Department, though those actual records, were lost later in a terrible fire in the NY State Law Archives in Albany, NY, of which there is some record of in the printing of annual records.