Palouse Days (1998)

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From the vault.

I shot most of this in my home town of Palouse in 1998 on a Minolta 401XL super 8 camera. It was the last year that Palouse hosted a demolition derby on Palouse Days due to competition from the Lewiston Valley (damn you Lewiston!!!!!).

I’m not sure why they still call it Palouse Days – it’s only one day.

I remember being in the parade as a kid in the 80’s. It seemed like there was about a hundred of us back then … ok maybe 50 … or 25. Now there are usually two kids in the parade and it just don’t look so good …

The Shriners are still involved and the town usually hires some Eastern European biker stunt group or something to try and do something different. I’m sure the pancakes are still as bad as ever at 6:30am down at the Community Center. One year, our family decided not to wake up early and go to the own breakfast. That was fine until some unnamed person got on the town PA system and started screaming at us to get out of bed and get downtown to breakfast.

The color effects were all done with filters in front of the lens. It was edited with a film splicer, some tape and a clothesline about the same time I did Humanidad Aterrorizado.

When I would project the film, I would always use side two of the Hatari soundtrack composed by Henri Mancini. When I transferred the film to digital, I had to put it on there for good.