francisco_lg.jpgI’m late to this, but Becky from The Elephant 6 Show has linked to an Orange Twin page on the Major Organ and the Adding Machine movie, with an extensive description on the filmmaking process by co-director Eric Harris (also of Olivia Tremor Control).  Here’s a little bit (read the full text here):

I’m glad I didn’t get my way and start filming on Super8. Instead we started with Betamax. Then moved on to 8mm, then to High-8, then… some obsolete digital format, who can remember? We had bad luck with moisture, some of the tapes drowned or were lost in the format battles. “Instructions” would arrive sporadically via postcard from The Major. We had lots of ideas, interpretations if you will, and back in those days it seemed perfectly reasonable to film them all and make sense of it later. Of course not all of the Major’s ideas were plausible, in fact most of them were unrelated to any sane conception of reality, and a few were downright illegal. This was before CGI was available to the working classes you know, so you had to actually do shit. I remember the pirate ship set was a little pathetic. Tape got moist anyway, so forget it. Same with the rented furniture in the public toilets. Didn’t really look like a spaceship like The Major said it would. That tape got especially moist.