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Re: VN Audio and Video (fwd)
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From: Gennadi Barabtarlo <gragb@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
It's probably from Christopher Sykes's "Omnibus Nabokov", a 60 min. English
film on Lolita done round 1990 and run on BBC, I suppose, which includes
snippets of some earlier interviews and some new ones (White, Boyd, Mrtin
Ams, Byatt). I have a copy that Sykes converted for me from PAL to VHS, but
it should be available in England. GB
>This footage of VN lepidoptering sounds exactly like the brief snippet of
>film which appeared in the BBC documentary on synaesthesia at the end of
>1994 (which I have unwiped on video). The same programme also had brief
>snippets of a filmed interview with VN discussing his and Dmitri's
>synaesthesia. I don't know if this was part of the original film or
>came from a separate source. And I don't know if either are related to
>the poor-quality VN film mentioned by other correspondents; but this
>seems unlikely as both extracts on the BBC, though in black-and-white,
>had perfectly satisfactory picture and sound quality. Unfortunately
>the programme's credits give no clue as to the provenance of these film-
>extracts. Dmitri N., interviewed for the programme, was familiar with the
>contents of the interview so it may be that the film belongs to the
>Nabokovs.
>
>Jerry Goodenough
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich NR4 7TJ
>England
>*************************
Gennady Barabtarlo
451 GCB University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
314-882-9454 Fax 314-882-3404
It's probably from Christopher Sykes's "Omnibus Nabokov", a 60 min. English
film on Lolita done round 1990 and run on BBC, I suppose, which includes
snippets of some earlier interviews and some new ones (White, Boyd, Mrtin
Ams, Byatt). I have a copy that Sykes converted for me from PAL to VHS, but
it should be available in England. GB
>This footage of VN lepidoptering sounds exactly like the brief snippet of
>film which appeared in the BBC documentary on synaesthesia at the end of
>1994 (which I have unwiped on video). The same programme also had brief
>snippets of a filmed interview with VN discussing his and Dmitri's
>synaesthesia. I don't know if this was part of the original film or
>came from a separate source. And I don't know if either are related to
>the poor-quality VN film mentioned by other correspondents; but this
>seems unlikely as both extracts on the BBC, though in black-and-white,
>had perfectly satisfactory picture and sound quality. Unfortunately
>the programme's credits give no clue as to the provenance of these film-
>extracts. Dmitri N., interviewed for the programme, was familiar with the
>contents of the interview so it may be that the film belongs to the
>Nabokovs.
>
>Jerry Goodenough
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich NR4 7TJ
>England
>*************************
Gennady Barabtarlo
451 GCB University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
314-882-9454 Fax 314-882-3404