Archive footage me-Peter Heathwood 2

Hi Peter. Thanks for getting back so soon. Its great that you are
updating the archive to DVD.

I am very happy with the idea of contributing to your conservation
fund. I guess that the thing for me is that the exact 5 second clips
that I choose are very important, peoples gestures and body movements
are key to the clips that I would choose to work with. There are also
some other factors that make the footage either easier or harder to
work with later, amount of movement within images, contrast etc.

What would be ideal for me is that I could email you a list of events
from the troubles which are of interest to me making it possible for
you to select the tapes from your archive that you think would be most
appropriate. Then at an convienient time I could come and record the 5
second clips from the tapes that I find of greatest interest to my
research and project. I need to record the clips onto MINI dv which is
equipment that I could bring. I have always know that I would need a
budget to get footage and had the thought that I could contribute so
much per hour of taking up your time while I reviewed and recorded the
footage.

I hope this sugestion isn't asking too much, its just that I find the
idea of your archive very exciting. Its the kind of resource I have
been wishing to find since starting my MA course.

If this idea is agreeable I will be coming to NI on sat morning and
staying untill tue dinner time. I am by no way assuming this will be
an appropriate time for you and if needed we could arrange another
time, its just that It would be great for me to obtain footage sooner
rather than later as I don't have very long to finish my research and
produce the final work for the final exhibition.

Any way, thank you very much for taking the time to correspond,

many thanks,

Stephen