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Everyone likes to talk cameras, but a decent handheld audio recorder is also a must. The Zoom H4N and the Tascam DR-100MKIII are good places to start for beginners. I have no idea whether the upcoming TP-7 field recorder by Teenage Engineering will deliver, but I am intrigued by the promise of its audio transcription feature. I will be elated if it works as advertised.
What is your involvement in the Fargo Film Festival? I was not a member of the group that started the Fargo Film Festival, but I have been a
volunteer since the beginning. The great film professor, my mentor Ted Larson of Minnesota State University Moorhead, died a few months before the original event. Even though my life had been turned upside down, Rusty Casselton asked me to participate. I made dubs of submitted movies for jurors to screen, helped set up the second venue, and edited the video of Leonard Maltin accepting the inaugural Ted M. Larson Award, the Fargo Film Festival’s highest honor.
of Congress Film Preservation Tour. Ted Larson had previously hosted cinema luminaries Lillian Gish and Colleen Moore in addition to producing Silent Movie Night and Summer Cinema at MSUM. He also regularly took students to Cinefest and Cinecon in New York and Los Angeles. I know he would be thrilled to see the growth and evolution of the festival.
I am so glad that then-Executive Director Margie Bailly and a talented group of friends had the vision to do so following the March 2000 visit of Janet Leigh as part of the Library
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