GR translation: the peculiar and slow-moving "Emulsion J,"

[alice wellintown]

Of course, King Vidor is the key here.   He produced a film with an all
Black cast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Vidor
On Saturday, July 20, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

> And therefore your reading makes sense. And I think it the better of the
> two. Though the ambiguity in the phrase "slow moving" might also imply that
> this product is not selling well. The context supports both readings. They
> are talking business, and "cut rate" prices are, in market economies,
> caused by high supply and low demand.  And budget is important to the film
> maker. However, technic is also quite important. More important? And is
> this a "market economy" where're supply and demand determines price? Well,
> there are those cut prices, but the cut prices may not be owed to supply
> and demand, at least not as Smith or Ricardo described it. The wars, first
> the Great War, shifted the market in favor of Hollywood, then the talkies,
> then regulated film technic, including film speed and therefore, light. In
> Europe the regulations were a bit different but in the US and Europe,
> light-speed was controlled. So, these boys here, recall earlier Bob Steele
> is mentioned, love this little cowboy, the actor, but who directs him,and
> he technic used by these experimenters, this is the important context here,
> so the light and speed, the emulsion, the chemistry, the Kartel kontrol of
> light.
>
> Yes, all this is re-worked, in a shabby novel, with Hector and Frenesi,
> but also,  in AGTD.
>
> http://old.cinema.ucla.edu/TANK/stockshorak.htm
>
>
>
> On Friday, July 19, 2013, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> Peculiar and slow-moving film stock...makes me think of fast vs slow film
>> stock
>> http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/pruter/film/lfs.htm
>>
>> So slow film stock is less sensitive requiring longer exposure and
>> therefore...something...
>>
>
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