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The Historical Value of the film Manifest is unprecedented.
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In 1982, the Austin Community at large participated and collaborated in a full blown Production of the Film Manifest.
Talent, Crew, Businesses, Local Authorities and Institutions contributed In-Kind; with the dream of film-making in Austin
-as an Art form.
The Film Production Shooting was carried out on weekends with few Friday nights. Most had jobs and students class activities.
Pre-Production meetings with Crew positions, Casting Calls, Auditions and Screen Test started in late September of 1981.
The first Shooting weekend was in January 16th of 1982.
The last Shooting weekend was in January 15th of 1983.
Many life events hindered the Film Post-Production, Completion and Distribution. At the core was, the plunge in oil prices in Texas in 1986; creating an economic crisis through the decade and some.
The untimely passing of UT graduate Leah Ann Riklin (1960-1992): the Film Producer and Casting Director -left a void in the process.
Since the Production phase, the Film footage was rightfully kept and stored by UT graduate Cecilia Garza-Trevino; the Executive Producer who invested with equipment, film stock, lab processing for the Production of her Original Story. Acting as well as Director and Cinematographer.
The 90s marked the beginning of the WWW Internet and HDTV broadcast. By the 21st century the Digital Evolution loomed over the original Celluloid film technology and equipment. That, and age shrinkage of the footage, made the Film Manifest an outcast.
The Restoration, Digital Scan and Remastering of the Film.
The Digital Scanning capabilities brought to the Industry the means of Film Preservation and
Remastering of old movies; giving light and a path to the completion of the film Manifest.
For years, Cecilia Garza-Trevino research the process, scanners available, as well as the cost.
Early Motion Picture scanners worked with a Pin system; to catch the sprocket holes as per
the conventional method of the celluloid technology. In 2019, she learned of a Pinless scanner
made in Utopia Texas by MovieStuff. Owner/inventor Rogers Evans expressed: "your are home".
A Plate is use to hold the moving film with flexible Lens adjustment to frame the footage.
In 2020 the Film was unpacked; 157 cans of 400ft/ea, about 63,000 ft. With Productions Logs,
the footage was organized by scenes with a 16mm Minette Viewer Editor. In the COVID years,
she engaged in cleaning, revitalizing and various Restoration process of the aged film.
In August 2021, she invested in the RetroScan Universal Mark II and a Nagra 4.2 Sound Recorder;
to Scan and Remaster the film with the Sync reel to reel audio tapes -into digital technology.
In 2024, the result is: a 2K 4:3 (2048x1536) Digital Film -brimful with Austin Memorabilia.
