Re: EMMA SWEENEY

I would defend A Ticket to Tomahawk as a fun movie and just take it at that. We showed it this summer in Silverton to an appreciative audience who laughed at the funny stuff, groaned at the badly acted parts and sound stage scenes, but enjoyed the train scenes and shots of our home town. We had a couple of people in attendance who were extras in the film when they were children and for the town at the time, it was the first evidence that things were going to shift economically as mining wound down. The original 35mm prints were superb color, sharp images, etc. We had a 35mm print to show of this movie as the last movie at our movie theater when it shut down some 30 years ago and it was spectacular. What you are looking at now are crappy copies of crappy copies. This movie was available for many years in 16mm format as a rental film and those prints were marginal and could be the source for the digital version now available.

The work on the Emma Sweeney is equally spectacular and the folks doing the work deserve a lot of praise for their efforts.

Fritz