Return Visit Value (Revisited)

A bit of a hurried effort with this one. We've just been informed here at the NRP offices, that unless we upload a post (ANY post) to "the blog" in the next few hours, we will leave the poor month of October in the record books as having hosted only two productions - representing the entire 31 days available for content uploading. Nope; can't have that.

So, when an emergency situation like this crops up (with no 'action videos' currently ready for prime time blogging) it's an 'easy out' for me to just toss a few old photos into a pile and string 'em all together. Not forgetting to add a folksy background tune into the mix. The viewer doesn't really care (each of the 1.5 viewers per day) so he/she/it is fine with whatever starts playing. But don't go thinking it's the same satisfying experience as with the 'moving picture' shows. That ain't possible. These old still pictures just don't have the same return visit value of the jittery kind.

The Bomb (Director's Cut)

Scenes from an unfinished, low-budget crime thriller (with little Barty Woods in the lead role) are used in this, our latest and super-8est, film collection from the mid 1970s.

'The Bomb' was shot entirely on location near the Banks of Spanish in the early months of 1976 with my trusty Canon movie camera. As you must recall, the Canon was camera #2 in my stable of three movie cameras (Bell & Howell/Nikon being the others). I'm strictly a video camcorder enthusiast nowadays with leanings to the most casual.

With Bart's stellar acting on display here, we are quickly drawn into the mind of a madman on a mission of destruction. Sadly, the middle and closing portions of this powerfully suspenseful movie have not yet been rescued from the storage room boxes, leaving us all to wonder if Bart's sinister intentions will be stopped before any real damage is done to persons or property.

New Scenes From Old Movies. Or Not.

When your film reels are not in order; and your newly transferred DVDs are all mixed up; and you've uploaded more than 150 blog entries in the past few years, well, you begin to forget exactly what has already been added and what hasn't; as far as digging out of new scenes from old 70s home movies goes.

But if it turns out that we really have already seen Blazer Doug in a previous posting, waving a finger of warning to us while he sits alone on a rocky perch up in Squamish, then so be it. That's okay, I figure. It's worth the expenditure of another 3 seconds of our viewing time to re-watch that priceless moment from 1977. (Heck - they're ALL priceless moments for any Blazer alumni tuning in.)

And as a favor to my lead singer Harry, I am also including in this upload, the very rare footage we shot of him singing my postie song LIVE while strolling Quebec Street one afternoon. For the actual complete music video that we stuck up on Youtube, the studio recorded version was dubbed in overtop; thereby replacing these raw vocals we hear from Harry today.