[Mick]

My experience: It was the last year of my contract with Andy Geiger and Cavalli/Rose. Long form commercial and promotion football film (16mm). Used for drumming up ticket sales, recruiting, etc. Al Michaels narrating, plenty of 100fps and plenty of color a la NFL Films (currently in my 48th year). I remember being in the EZ and Oski giving me crap because I was wearing a Stanford hoodie. F*** him (or her). I turned to my assistant and said something about calling time with 8 or 9 seconds left. So I followed Harmon and then shot the kick going over. We sped to the bench and I stood in front of Wiggin expecting to back up with him for the handshake. I never saw The Play. We surged onto the field and then for some shocking reason we surged back to the sideline. By the time we froze the play was over and I had to ask some Cal people what had happened. Nobody had the full story. Upstairs my father shot the “Top” position at 32 FPS (slightly slowed down). We dropped the exposed at a processing lab on Monday and got ready to make some tweaks to our project because we were on deadline. Bob Rose was moving along to the USFL so I think Steve Racyenski called me and stated that we should bury the Cal footage. To this day it sits in my garage, negative film never printed or transferred. I am sure that I could go frame to frame and finally solve the knee on the ground riddle. But it will never happen because The question is better than the solution.

Phogge, I will give you (checks my wallet) US$43.00, hand-delivered, if you do the frame-by-frame analysis...

[Mick]

My experience: It was the last year of my contract with Andy Geiger and Cavalli/Rose. Long form commercial and promotion football film (16mm). Used for drumming up ticket sales, recruiting, etc. Al Michaels narrating, plenty of 100fps and plenty of color a la NFL Films (currently in my 48th year). I remember being in the EZ and Oski giving me crap because I was wearing a Stanford hoodie. F*** him (or her). I turned to my assistant and said something about calling time with 8 or 9 seconds left. So I followed Harmon and then shot the kick going over. We sped to the bench and I stood in front of Wiggin expecting to back up with him for the handshake. I never saw The Play. We surged onto the field and then for some shocking reason we surged back to the sideline. By the time we froze the play was over and I had to ask some Cal people what had happened. Nobody had the full story. Upstairs my father shot the “Top” position at 32 FPS (slightly slowed down). We dropped the exposed at a processing lab on Monday and got ready to make some tweaks to our project because we were on deadline. Bob Rose was moving along to the USFL so I think Steve Racyenski called me and stated that we should bury the Cal footage. To this day it sits in my garage, negative film never printed or transferred. I am sure that I could go frame to frame and finally solve the knee on the ground riddle. But it will never happen because The question is better than the solution.

Phogge, I will give you (checks my wallet) US$43.00, hand-delivered, if you do the frame-by-frame analysis...