{"id":7732,"date":"2014-08-14T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7732"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:46:15","slug":"it-was-15-years-8-days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7732","title":{"rendered":"It was 15 years, 8 days ago\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026when the middle component of our first MICRO-FILM<\/strong><\/span><\/a> wave flooded the shelves of many Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> businesses, providing their patrons with lively words on cinema the likes of which did not appear in their humdrum, average, everyday media! The newsletter MICRO-Scope<\/strong><\/span> first appeared on Friday, August 6, 1999<\/strong>, and thereafter every six to eight weeks during the 1999-2000 academic year. A follow-up to MICRO-FILM: The Warning Shot<\/strong><\/span> from that spring<\/span><\/a> and a quick-and-cheap attempt at keeping our name on the streets between the newsstand MICRO-FILM<\/strong> issues<\/span><\/a>, the \u2018Scope<\/span> <\/strong>was packed with as many bite-size tidbits of interest as we could cram onto the front and back sides. We considered news, interviews, reviews, shout-outs, MF<\/strong> promotion, and calls to filmmaking arms fair game, bestowed upon our community free of charge and copied on crayon-hued paper stock. We screamed all the colors of the cinema rainbow, we did! Sadly, the \u2018Scope<\/span> <\/strong>was shelved once our flagship title picked up some traction.<\/p>\n

In the near future we will share the fruits of these dark-ages labors for your perusal but, right now, let\u2019s tease with a facsimile of MICRO-Scope<\/span> #1<\/strong>. Topics included the nationwide release of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT<\/strong>, a Freaky Films<\/strong> screening of WADD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN C. HOLMES<\/strong> at the New Art Theater<\/strong>, the empowering video-making activity of Girlzone<\/strong>, the sixth Chicago Underground Film Festival<\/strong> up north, and a messy, noisy, and totally rad moving-away show for our pal John May<\/strong> featuring local bands and his own film shorts. Not unlike MF<\/strong> proper, the \u2018Scope<\/strong><\/span> ranged from the local to national and provides a selective timeline that helps us remember our beginnings. Just click on the graphics to pop up an enlarged, easy-to-read scan! Underneath that, we chart the who, the what, the where, and the when appearing in the newsletter\u2019s brief run. If your humble editor\u2019s old-school comrades are interested in a hard copy set to file away, write him to arrange an exchange<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween one copy-shop \u2018zine, two full-blooded glossy \u2018zines, seven newsletters, and a brand-new Web site, I think I can say that it\u2019s been exhausting and exhilarating so far,\u201d I professed at the head of the final MICRO-Scope<\/strong><\/span> issued Friday, April 28, 2000<\/strong>, during the second Roger Ebert\u2019s Overlooked Film Festival<\/strong>. The general sentiment still applies in 2014. You\u2019re welcome, then and<\/em> now.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

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MICRO-Scope<\/strong><\/span>
\n \u201cMICRO-FILM\u2019s Newsletter of Local Cinematic Action\u201d<\/strong>
\n August 1999 \u2013 April 2000<\/strong><\/p>\n


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M-S 1.1, 8\/6\/99:<\/strong> MICRO-FILM 1 preview; Chicago Underground Film Festival \u201999 details; Freaky Film Festival \u201999 update; seeking THE GARBAGE MAN; box office victory for THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT; Girlzone makes videos; John May rocks out before Madison move; WADD film review; <\/em>The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide<\/span> by Chris Gore book review; <\/em>MF: The Warning Shot<\/span> plug; Caffe Paradiso plug<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

M-S 1.2, 9\/17\/99:<\/strong> Adventures in seeing STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 at the Lorraine Theatre in Hoopeston; the revival of the Normal Theater in Normal; Russ Meyer attends his own film in the C-U; UIUC student makes short film in Chicago; THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT review; Channing-Murray Foundation plug<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

M-S 1.3, 10\/22\/99:<\/strong> John May talks creating a \u201cfilm scene;\u201d words to film by from Eric Stanze (ICE FROM THE SUN); Bruce Campbell wisdom remembered from Freaky Film Festival \u201997; complete Freaky Film Festival \u201999 program essay by Mr. JaPan; DOGS IN QUICKSAND local film review from <\/em>Shock Cinema<\/span>\u2026<\/p>\n

M-S 1.4, 12\/3\/99:<\/strong> MICRO-FILM 1 now available; Freaky Film solo shows coming to The Highdive; <\/em>MF 1 cover story film RUNNING TIME released on home video; <\/em>MICRO-FILM Web site announced; looking for C-U short film OPEN TO CLOSE; first reactions to <\/em>MF 1; preview of <\/em>MF 2; TED: THE MOVIE local film review; <\/em>Game Over<\/span> by Mike Cole local comic \u2018zine review; Freaky Film Festival \u201999 local event review<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

M-S 1.5, 2\/4\/00:<\/strong> Peter Asaro and Doug Matejka talk producing C-U homeless documentary IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD; Leila Ramagopal Pertl on acting in Champaign Underground music video DELTA QUEEN; LIVING PROOF: COURAGE IN THE FACE OF AIDS film review; SPREADING THE DISEASE local student film review<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

M-S 1.6, 3\/17\/00:<\/strong> John May discusses developing animated fairy tale SAMARIA; thought provoking coffee talk with Jay Rosenstein; Ralph Roether III on appearing in thesis film short LOTTO; <\/em>Illinois Wesleyan at the Movies<\/span> local book review; DREAM WHEEL CIRCUS local film review<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

M-S 1.7, 4\/28\/00:<\/strong> MICRO-FILM 1 review excerpts; Champaign-Urbana local film directory<\/em>\u2026 fin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For something so flat, our former newsletter MICRO-Scope displayed the nascent modern film culture of Champaign-Urbana in multiple dimensions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,274,31],"tags":[93,1323,310,772,243,80,181,1322],"class_list":["post-7732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jp-confidential","category-micro-film-du-c-u","category-print-matter-du-c-u","category-the-old-school","tag-bruce-campbell","tag-eric-stanze","tag-freaky-film-festival","tag-illinois-wesleyan-university","tag-johnnie-may","tag-micro-film","tag-micro-film-the-warning-shot","tag-micro-scope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}