por nitroglicerino el Jue Dic 24, 2009 6:01 pm
En el grupo de google al que pertenezco he colgado el vídeo y los más eruditos dicen esto:
"It's amusing, but there are many things "wrong" with it, I think. The
gent is wearing eyeglasses, I believe; and the only photos I've seen of
Lovecraft wearingt glasses is when he was a very young man (i.e. the
cover photo for Datlow's LOVECRAFT UNBOUND). The gent in this video is
very young, and at that age Lovecraft would not have garnered enough
attention to be interviewed or asked such questions. The voice seems
fine -- friends of HPL's said his voice was of a high and nasal character."
"I thought it was a promo piece for the Call of Cthulhu piece, which also had some mocked up grainy video in it. I may have the film wrong, but I'm sure it's a promo piece - albeit it may have been pawned off as authentic as some inside joke. It's well done, that's for sure. If it's the same film, I recall watching it and thought it was pretty well done to a point, and then lost its momentum into the last 1/3rd and became a sort of like some Dr Whos - a bit cheesy though not meaning to be. (I'm a big Tom Baker fan)."
"By the way, I doubt that there WAS a WPA so early as 1933. This was the first year of Roosevelt's first term and the President had many much more pressing problems at hand than developing and funding the WPA."
"Back in 1933, Lovecraft was nowhere even remotely near the "cultural icon" he has become in the last couple of decades! If the WPA had interviewed anybody, it would have been writers like Thomas Wolfe, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, or John Dos Passos--maybe even T.S. Eliot, though he'd in effect become an Englishman.
<<Also, the PURPOSE of the WPA was to provide a sustenance wage to writers, artists and musicians during the Great Depression. So there would be no profit to be made in merely INTERVIEWING creative artists.>>
In the 70-odd years since the Great Depression and the New Deal, most people's memories and mental images of New Deal programs and agencies have become VERY vague, aside from professional historians and dedicated history buffs ("FDR--didn't he start Social Security or something?")--so it's easy to "get away with" fabricating things like WPA interviews of writers, including writers who in fact were still pretty obscure at that time. But then, of course, my own personal favorite WPA projects are their State Guides! "