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The filmmakers behind the new, entirely found-footage documentary Our Nixon weave an eclectic portrait of one of the most peculiar American Presidents and best Futurama talking heads ever: Richard Nixon. This doc is no historical snooze-fest, but an “Anti-Nixon-Film Film” revealing never-before-seen private Super 8 movies filmed by Nixon’s youthful White House Aides. (The contemporary version might be like stumbling onto Malia Obama’s iPhone with two years of Vine videos that had never been uploaded.) While waiting for a delayed flight to the SXSW film festival, Producer Brian L. Frye sat down with NFS to give us insight about how they pulled off the film, from before-and-after 4k scans, to standing up for your fair use rights as a filmmaker.
NFS: Correct me if this is wrong, but the Super 8 movies we see in Our Nixon were basically sitting in a vault for about 40 years before you got to them?BLF: Yes, basically what happened was that three of Nixon’s aides — H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman, and Dwight Chapin — were shooting lots and lots of rolls of footage from amateur movie cameras. They were getting film from the U.S. Naval Photographic Center, along with free processing and …
By: Oakley Anderson-Moore
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