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Sausalifo Commercial Artist To Show Experimental Film On His New Homefrank Stauffacher, a Sausalito advertising artist who introduced the experimental film to hundreds in the bay♦ area, will present his recently completed film Sausalito” at the Contemporary Gallery in Sausalito tonight.The film which nad its premiereSan Francisco Museum Fridaynight.Although Stauffacher would like to spend full time on his experimental film work, the question of financing always sends him back to the advertising business. However, he says, grinning hopefully, Ifat the San Francisco Museum two • anybody has $10,000 they’d like toweeks ago portrays the photographers’ personal response to a new’ environment, Running only 10 minutes, it will be shown with another short Stauffacher film “Zig Zag”, a fantasy composition in neon lights.Bom and reared in San Francisco, Stauffacher attended the art center school in Los Angeles on a scholarship. His interest in film work increased when he spent some time working in the set design department at Columbia studios in 1940.In 1948 he and Richard Foster, a Berkeley business management consultant, started to explore for the non-commercial films made by artists. They dug into the material available from the Museum of Modem Art in New York and,wrote to European sources for experimental films. When they put on their first Art in Cinema” series at the San Francisco Museum of Art, they were amazed at the tremendous response from the people. The later published a book called “Art in Cin-rnvest in a sure thing, they should contact me. It’s bound to pay off!Madera Larks Break Camp, Give $500 For Lions RecreationThe first program of its kind in the country, others followed rapidly in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Hundreds of people were fed up with the slick commercial films in which there was “too much money ... too much greatness and not enough obscurity ... too many stars and not enough shedding of light”, according to Ernest Betts in The Future of Films.”Stauffacher explained, “I and other experimental film makers are not trying to copy Hollywood’s slick finish. We are trying to search for a new kind of poetic language with the camera ”“Sausalito” which he shot with a Bolex 16 milimeter camera was “an attempt to use the camera personally without a production crew, actors or elaborate staging ... to use it to photograph everyday objects and put them together in such a way that it creates a definite statement.”In trying to do the same thing with the sound, Stauffacher recorded the various natural sounds including bells, whistles, sea gulls’ screams that are characteristic of Sausalito. He then cut the sound $rack to pieces and separated them. They were then fitted together and edited in the same way as a film track.Comparing such an experimental film to modem poetry, the photographer said he “dovetailed images one into the other to evoke certain sensations. Images or pictures may be Joined by Just a thread of connection ... a gull flying turns into a paper, the paper into a sailboat ...”From the film, he says he learned a better sense of timing and a great deal more about how to put a sound track together with the images.Winner with James Broughton of an honorable mention for their film “Mother’s Day” at the Russell Film Festival in Brussel this year, Stauffacher is now completing work on a film called “Goethe in San Francisco” which will be shown at theFive hundred dollars will be put into a trust fund- this week by the Madera-Larks Club of Larkspur and Corte Madera, to be turned over to the Lions Club when construction starts on the Lions Recreation park in Larkspur.The Madera-Larks Club is disbanding because of lack of new membership and interest, according to Robert Mistrom, its first president, and has $500 in its treasury. The money will be earmarked for playground equipment for the Lions’ project.Announcement of the disbandment of the club, which was founded in 1946, was made at the last Lions club meeting in Larkspur, last week by Bob Mistrom, present president of the Lions.One last meeting of the old* club will be held at a full membership dinner Saturday night at Maison Marin.Southeast Conference football teams have played 43 games in seven different post-season bowls.r4lb.Drip or ReBUTTClover, First QuoMayoBest FoodsTOMEconomyBEAM
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Daily Independent Journal
San Rafael, California, US
Thu, Oct 20, 1949
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