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Current Entry: Promotional Video
Winter Camp has been captured on film since at least 1986, when Roger Horn added a video camera to his equipment list. The early efforts consisted primarily of a lot of poorly focused, jittery shots of incessant volleying. In short, they weren't very promising. Despite these shortcomings, filming was conducted at Winter Camps X-XIV with a near-religious fervor. In 1991, a serious effort was made to gather that footage and make some sort of movie from it. For about a week, Steve Donohue's basement was converted to a state-of-the-art recording studio, with multiple VCR's, several hundred dollars' worth of stereo equipment, hundreds of CD's, and a battery-powered sound mixer that Doug Wilson's dad had picked up as surplus somewhere. The result of that effort was "The Winter Camp Promo Movie": a reasonably slick highlight reel of famous Winter Camp events (such as there were) linked with a variety of musical selections. The experience of assembling this movie and the nature of the final product served as direct inspiration for the 1995 production at camp of "Winter Camp: The Movie". (SD)