Discovered in a Snowglobe - 5th January 2023 - "Land of Confusion" by Katharine Scarritt

[tinturtle]

On this twelfth day of Christmas, I am happy to be able to share a gift from me to the Pros fandom: a recut of Katharine Scarritt's classic 1980s fanvid "Land of Confusion".

Katharine Scarritt left us in March of last year, but those responsible for her fanworks were able to digitize the video tapes she left behind and posted her fanvids on the Internet Archive in August. I was excited to see these tape-era vids, and I admire them very much. Unfortunately, many of the original video tapes were badly degraded, meaning that the image and audio quality of the transcribed files is often very poor. That made me sad, so I was delighted when Katharine Scarritt's legatees accepted my offer to make a recut of "Land of Confusion", one of the vids with the most distortion and also one that has been highly regarded in Pros fandom. Recutting the vid was a complicated process involving several video and audio editing programs, but I am very happy with the result. I hope it would have pleased Katharine Scarritt and that all of you will enjoy it.

Click here to view the recut of "Land of Confusion".

Click here to compare the original version.

Click here to watch more of Katharine Scarritt's vids.

(Please note that this is a limited-time preview of the recut. It is currently hosted with permission at my webspace, but since I am not the guardian of the vid, it will only be there for one week. Once it is posted to IA, I will edit this post to point to that file. There may be a period when it is not available anywhere, however.)

Comments

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Oh good job! Haven't watched the original version but the recut is excellent!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

You did an excellent job! Really nicely done, and so pretty! Thanks to you and to those who gave permission for this to be done. It's so wonderful. I

[tinturtle]

Thank you so much. I'm glad you think I did well.

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Wow! You did an excellent job on this. Thank you :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

This is great, thank you! *vbg*

Out of curiousity, is the only plan to archive this via the Internet Archive, and not anywhere else? It seems a shame if it can't be archived to a Pros-specific forum, such as ProsLib, to make it easier to find? (And I appreciate that you're not the person making this decision, I'm just wondering if you know! *g*)

[tinturtle]

I'm glad you like it. I'll bring archiving up with those whose decision it is. Does Proslib still have a video component, though?

[f-m-parkinson.livejournal.com]

I think you've done a brilliant job 'restoring' this fanvid. It's a lovely one in the first place but to see the images clearly is wonderful. A true labour of love. I'm really glad you're happy with the result and I can't imagine that Katharine Scarritt would have been anything but delighted with it. Thank you very much for taking the time and making the effort to do it so beautifully.

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Fabulous!! Thank you!