Greer Lankton in The Contortionist - by Joyce Randall

[MrFalconford]

It reminds me of a puppet show I saw recently.

[MrFalconford]

It's a exercise video. Could be mass produced today?

[LorianCello]

Hi Joyce - this is Lorian, Greer's neighbor growing up. What a great video. I'm doing my once-a-year-or-so web search for stuff about Greer and I came across this. Greer was such an amazing dancer, artist and all-around amazing person. I'm glad to see some videos of her making it out to the web, and glad to see her work has not been forgotten.

[jrandall58]

Hi. I shot this around 1977 or so. We used a super 8 camera and bought black and white film for it. This is a stop action animation. Cable release click..click..click... It should run at 24 fps, but I transferred it to video which 30 fps. I only made two copies. I have one and Greer had one. I should try to find other movies Greer and I made together.

Joyce

[theclubcreatures]

@jrandall58

Hi Joyce!

I'm so sorry, I didn't see this comment come in. Thanks SO MUCH for finding it and responding.

That would be AMAZING to see the other films you have. I'm not sure how Greer's copy got to JoJo Baby, but that's how we were able to get it tranfered to youtube.

[Gmancrap]

what kind of camera do you think it is?

[theclubcreatures]

Sorry, we don't know... two best guesses would be 16mm and Super 8...

[Oberallgau]

Thank you. This is wonderful.

[warhola888]

what a treasure