From: t91069ke@sfc.keio.ac.jp
Real-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 23:19:38 +0900
Subject: [infotalk,00249] Re: STUDIO VOICE (AUG) 
Message-Id: <9307231419.AA03931@cs1.sfc.keio.ac.jp>

江渡です。

>In message <9307220210.AA01772@seraph.ntt.jp> you write:
>>
>>えっと、Internet で行われた "WAX" の上映が IP multicast だった
>>かどうかは、あくまで私の推測で、真偽の程は知りません。
>
>Multicast で行なわれました。で、しかも、そのことが New York Times か何
>かに出たそうです。（記事のコピーがあったのですが、どっかに行ってしまっ
>た。）

この記事のコピーは、以前作者にメールで送ってもらったものがあ
りますので、最後につけておきます。

>以下 rem-conf というメイリングリストに流れたアナウンスです。

この rem-conf というメイリングリストは、なにに関するものなん
でしょうか？ よろしければ教えてください。

>Subject: Saturday nite moviecast

うーん、いいなぁ。。。

江渡 浩一郎

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Date: Fri, 28 May 93 19:35:19 EDT
From: artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu (Artist # 1)
Message-Id: <9305282335.AA11971@rdrc.rpi.edu>
To: t91069ke@sfc.keio.ac.jp
Subject: Re: "WAX" (film) broadcast on Internet

hi Eto,

The film opens at Parco 3 on June 23rd, in Japanese (not subtitles).
[in Shibuya].

Thanks for writing.... if you cna think of any place to repost this, 
I would much appreciate it. I am first including the New York Times
article on the 'cast, and then the WAX file.

David

===================

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Monday May 24, 1993
 
BUSINESS SECTION, PAGE 8:
 
CULT FILM IS A FIRST ON INTERNET
by John Markoff
 
subheadline: 
REDUCED, DECOLORED AND SOMETIMES SILENT. BUT STILL HISTORIC
 
San Francisco, May 23- 
As historic moments go, this one, it could be argues, was closer
to "Watson, come here!" than to another Saturday night at the
movies.
 
A small audience scattered among a few dozen computer
laboratories gathered Saturday evening to watch the first movie
to be transmitted on the Internet- the global computer network
that connects millions of scientists and academic researchers and
heretofore has been a medium for swapping research notes and an
occasional still image.
 
Yes, the cult movie "WAX or the discovery of television among the
bees" had to be reduced from full color to a blurry black and
white. And true, the spotty audio occasionally went silent. But
coming as companies in the cable, tv, telephone, and computer
industries are hot on the trail of 500-channel, all-digital TV,
let history record that Saturday night marked the first baby
steps in that direction.
 
The movie, an 85 minute feature by David Blair about a beekeeper
who ends up being kept by bees, has attracted a cult following
since it's release in 1992. Mr. Blair transmitted it Saturday
night from a film studio in midtown Manhattan. he played it on a
VCR ad fed it into a computer that converted it into digital form
and fed it into the Internet.
 
Promises, Promises
 
Mr. Blair's effort demonstrated that while information industry
giants like Tele-Communications Inc., AT&T, and Time-Warner are
tantalizing the nation with promises of hundreds of channels of
ultra-high-resolution interactive pictures transmitted via fiber
optic superhighways, the technology is still in its infancy.
 
Indeed, it was not until halfway through the digital network
premiere of "WAX" that the engineers gathered at an office of Sun
Microsystems Inc. in Mountain View, Calif. were even able to find
the movie signal in the Internet datastream and direct it to play
on their color workstations.
 
And when it finally flickered into view on an eight inch window
within a computer screen, it was clear that digital broadcasting
was not yet ready for prime time. In part because of limited
data-carrying capacity of the Internet, the movie had only about
half the resolution of a normal television picture.
 
Surrealer than Surreal
 
Even more disorienting, the movie was broadcast at the dream-like
rate of two frames per second, instead of the broadcast standard
of 24, giving it an even more surreal quality than the big-screen
original.
 
The soundtrack came through haltingly, frequently broken up by
what the engineers called the "packet drop out" when the Internet
became too congested with other data traffic. Despite the flaws,
the engineers at Sun Microsystems said they considered the
premiere a success.
 
"We really don't understand the problem of sending thousands of
simultaneous digital signals yet" said Tom Kessler, a sun
software engineer. "Come back in six months nd this stuff will be
working flawlessly."
 
Indeed, digital video broadcasting over the Internet is now being
developed independently by small groups of researchers at Xerox's
Palo Alto Research Center, the Information Sciences institute in
Los Angeles and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California,
and at the corporate laboratories of Bolt Beranek and Newman in
Cambridge, Mass.

From: Shingo Ichii <ichii@purple.kek.jp>
Real-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 11:59:58 +0900
Subject: [infotalk,00248] Re: STUDIO VOICE (AUG) 
Message-Id: <199307230300.MAA26847@purple>

高エネルギー物理学研究所（ＫＥＫ）の一井といいます。

In message <9307220210.AA01772@seraph.ntt.jp> you write:
>
>えっと、Internet で行われた "WAX" の上映が IP multicast だった
>かどうかは、あくまで私の推測で、真偽の程は知りません。

Multicast で行なわれました。で、しかも、そのことが New York Times か何
かに出たそうです。（記事のコピーがあったのですが、どっかに行ってしまっ
た。）

以下 rem-conf というメイリングリストに流れたアナウンスです。

KEK 一井

>From: vincent@tesla.gport.com (vincent bilotta)
Message-Id: <9305202303.AA02810@tesla.gport.com>
Subject: Saturday nite moviecast
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The feature-length film by David Blair
 
"WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" (85:00)
 
will be "broadcast" across the Internet on Saturday, May 22nd
at 8:30 PM EDT

Tech details:
Multicast of Wax Saturday May 22nd at 8:30 EDT
The session will be set up with SD version 1.14
TTL 127
audio port 63440 ID 20968
video port 38877 ID 30041
As usual, following are some quotes, to warm you up
 
David Byrne (musician):
 
"Here's a film that defies easy categorization, yet seems to
make perfect sense, given its' own peculiar form of logic. It's
logic from a world that is strangely similar to our own, a
parallel universe on our own planet. It's a world that is
strange, wonderful, and awe-inspiring to inhabit. A place where
the present and the future interpenetrate each other in organic
ways that almost feel like a new kind of sex."
 
William Gibson (author, Neuromancer, Count Zero, etc.):
 
"Authentically peculiar. Like something from the network vaults
of an alternate universe."

 Iceshirt", "The Rainbow Stories", all Penguin/Viking Press)
 
"I admire your dark and paranoid visions in all of their
intergalactic complexity."
 
Larry McCaffery (editor, "Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook
on Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction", Duke University Press):
 
"WAX strikes me as a truly major accomplishment, intellectually
rich, verbally inventive, visually stunning, and -- perhaps most
remarkable of all -- as emotionally resonant as any film I've
come across in recent years."
 
Brooks Landon (author, "Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking SF
Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production", Greenwood Press)
 
"WAX is like no movie you have ever seen. Call it postmodern,
postcyberpunk... or post cinema, the point is this 85 minute
celebration of the possibilities of "electronic cinema" may well
indicate the future direction of SF film, if not "film" itself.
 
Timothy Leary:
 
"WAX is a treat for the eyeballs, a delight for the receptor
sites, a brilliant illumination for our left brains and our right
brains!"