Video Page - this is all the footage of Shunryu Suzuki except for some out-takes from Sunseed I think. I had the film professionally copied on high quality VHS and Beta over ten years ago and then two years ago had it all transferred to high resolution standard US DVD digital at Fiske Video in Mill Valley, CA and from there to various formats for the archive. These are low resolution M4v (click name) and FLV (in parenthese at end of line) except for the five shorts which are are WMV and MP4. Richard Baker had the Nona Ransom Japan film transferred to video in Colorado.
All of the original film needs to be transferred to super hi resolution digital files for archiving, for the future, to preserve them. Also, many film archivists say that new negatives should be made. - dc
Source material
Zen Mountain Center - KQED 16 mm film ca 1969 (45:24) (FLV) - 1969
Sunseed - Shunryu Suzuki section from a feature 35 mm documentary for theaters featuring gurus - 1970?. There are outtakes somewhere gotta find. (25:19) (FLV) - ca 1970
San Do Kai - black and white 16 mm no sound of Suzuki giving talk in Tassajara zendo 1969 (15:56) (FLV)
Nona Ransom's Japan film - Suzuki's English teacher's 16 mm film from the 30s. A bit of the young (20s) Suzuki on the deck and elsewhere. (31:57) (FLV)
Nona Ransom's Travel film - Also the 30s - no Suzuki - here cause where else would it go? (1:23:59) (FLV)
Recent edited compilations
One Particle of Dust (1:14:11) (FLV) - ca 2000
Present Shunryu (26:18) (FLV) - ca 2007
Five Shorts made by students at SFSU - 2002 or so
Five shorts all together (37:19) (FLV)
A Pearl Rolling Across a Table (6:54) - WMV - MP4
An Ordinary Stone (6:08) - WMV - MP4
Beginner's Mind (4:26) - WMV - MP4
How Do You Like Zazen (5:19) - WMV - MP4
What You're Left With (6:27) - WMV - MP4