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 except for the five shorts which are 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 1969
Sunseed - Shunryu Suzuki section from a feature 35 mm documentary for theaters featuring gurus - 1970?. There are outtakes somewhere gotta find.
San Do Kai - black and white 16 mm no sound of Suzuki giving talk in Tassajara zendo 1969
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.
Nona Ransom's Travel film - no Suzuki - here cause where else would it go?
Recent edited compilations
Five Shorts made by students at SFSU - 2002 or so
A Pearl Rolling Across a Table