Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David Medley wrote: > > And that is why all of the frames on my walls are crooked......the fairies > are forever sitting on them in the wee hours of the morning! > > Cheers, > David Medley > Whidbey Is. WA > USA > dmedley@whidbey.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 4:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Photographing Fairies > > >Donal Philby wrote: > >> > >> Since we're on the topic of a movie, I recommend in video the film > >> "Photographing Fairies." It doesn't have any Leicas, but it is a good > >> film, good script, entertaining, and shows a bunch of old fashioned > >> cameras (there: on topic!) and gear. > >> > >> donal > >> -- > >> Donal Philby > >> San Diego > >> http://www.donalphilby.com > > > >A ten times better film based on the same book which I read is called > >Fairy Story , the true story,..something like that, it has Harvey Keital > >playing Houdini (not in the book). see it and tell me its not 10 times > better. > >mark rabiner Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the creator of Sherlock Holmes is not a man whose mind you would assume would be tolerant of wild flights of fancy. However his son died in WW1 and when a story in the paper appeared of two little girls who had documented their existence on film he was compelled to drive out there and check them out. This is a true story and it is fascinating. Mark Rabiner