This is my first attempt at making a very short film. . Last Day at the Stadium vimeo.com/chimponaughty/lastdayatthestadium a very short film - © MMXII Chimptastic Productions . CREDITS Video Editor & Producer: Chimponaughty vimeo.com/chimponaughty Music: "L'Ultimo Giorno Allo Stadio" by Digi G'Alessio www.myspace.com/pauralausini flavors.me/digigalessio vimeo.com/user2668816 The Music track's license is Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Italy creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/it/ creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/it/deed.en Video File Details File: Last Day at the Stadium.wmv Type: Windows Media Audio/Video file Duration: 00:01:37 Bitrate: 2079kbps Dimensions: 640 x 480 Size: 17.0 MB . ALSO SEE: Last Day at the Stadium (silent) vimeo.com/chimponaughty/lastdayatthestadiumsilent a very short silent film - © MMXII Chimptastic Productions . INSPIRATION Being a life long film enthusiast and having a great fondness for chimpanzees, my creative urge was finally sparked and I decided to make a short film featuring chimps. I was inspired to create a black & white film edited together from old found footage after discovering a brilliant collage film noir on Vimeo, "Dans l'ombre", "In the shadow". Short film. by Fabrice Mathieu vimeo.com/23200726 which brought to mind one of my favourite movies, "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" by Carl Reiner starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward. My little editing/story telling project was also greatly influenced by (especially the choice of title) the great music track I finally chose, "L'Ultimo Giorno Allo Stadio" by Digi G'Alessio. . MY FIRST FILM MAKING JOURNEY I know the whole process would be much quicker and simpler with the right resources and tools but, as a personal challenge to myself, I deliberately decided to restrict myself to a zero budget and to only use freely available FREE basic tools and resources. It's amazing what one can achieve with limited resources, the most basic of tools, and a little determination, ingenuity, passion and vision. The ideas I had for the type of film I wanted to make led me to search the internet for suitable old black & white footage of chimpanzees. At the Internet Archive archive.org, in a sub-collection called the Collectie Filmcollectief (archive.org/details/collectie_filmcollectief) I found an old Castle Films home-movie entertainment 16mm silent comedy called "Who's New at the Zoo?", which although it contained the right kind of footage I was looking for, unfortunately a lot of it was covered with large onscreen narration text/subtitles in Dutch. I downloaded the 392MB MPEG2 file so I could review the film later. (archive.org/details/news-at-the-zoo) (CREDIT to www.filmcollectief.nl, Cor Draijer, who did the film restoration and the transfer from 16mm to MPEG file) After carefully viewing the film quite a few times I could see there was just enough good suitable footage (that wasn't covered with large onscreen Dutch text) for me to salvage and use to create a very short film. Information about the film "Who's New at the Zoo?" is scarce and some seems to be inaccurate and misleading, it is listed in the archive as 1930 but I think that might be incorrect. The film itself is marked as 1955 United World Films Inc. Castle Films was a home-movie distributor founded in California by former newsreel cameraman Eugene W. Castle (1897–1960) in 1924. The company originally produced business and advertising films. By 1931 it had moved its principal office to New York City. In 1937, Castle branched out into 8 mm and 16 mm home movies, buying newsreel footage and old theatrical films for home use. In 1947, United World Films, Inc., the non-theatrical division of Universal Pictures, purchased a majority stake in Castle Films. Castle subsequently became a Universal subsidiary, drawing upon the studio's library of vintage films. So the footage in the film could be from 1930, but I doubt that date. The footage in the film looks to me to be re-edited found footage that could be from either the 1930s, 1940s, or early 1950s. I am still doing research to try to find out more information and also hopefully to fully clarify the copyright status. So at the moment (17 August 2012) I am not prepared to fully share this video. . THE EDITING PROCESS "Last Day at the Stadium" was made mainly using Windows Movie Maker 2.1 on an old laptop running Windows XP Pro sp3 (please don't laugh HAHAHA). Windows Movie Maker 2.1 would not accept the MPEG2 file and it was too large to upload to a free online file conversion service. So, I uploaded the MPEG2 file to YouTube and used the YouTube Video Editor www.youtube.com/create_detail/YouTubeVideoEditor to "chop it up" online and saved all the clips I wanted to keep as multiple new videos, which I then downloaded and saved as smaller mp4 files. I then

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