{"id":18713,"date":"2016-05-07T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18713"},"modified":"2016-05-07T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T11:20:18","slug":"spectres-of-shortwave-help-amanda-put-the-finishing-touches-on-her-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/spectres-of-shortwave-help-amanda-put-the-finishing-touches-on-her-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectres of Shortwave: Help Amanda put the finishing touches on her film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3850\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1-IMG_1901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3850\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3850\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1-IMG_1901.jpg\" alt=\"Curtain antennas in operation at RCI Sackville\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1-IMG_1901.jpg 534w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1-IMG_1901-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1-IMG_1901-66x100.jpg 66w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curtain antennas in operation at RCI Sackville<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Jason, who shares the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Not sure if you&#8217;ve seen this Indiegogo campaign to help finish a doc on the RCI transmitter site&#8230;I think I may have first heard about this from your blog?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/spectres-of-shortwave-last-steps#\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/spectres-of-shortwave-last-steps#\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Jason! Yes, you might have heard about <em>Spectres of Shortwave<\/em> here as I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/spectres-of-shortwave\/\" target=\"_blank\">posting updates on the SWLing Post<\/a> since 2013! \u00a0I&#8217;m very happy to see the film nearing completion. Since my wife has worked in film production, I&#8217;m well aware of the enormous amount of time and effort it takes to produce a documentary on a shoestring budget.<\/p>\n<p>I just sent support to Amanda through Indigogo. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/spectres-of-shortwave-last-steps#\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here if you&#8217;d like to support her, too.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amanda is also posting preview clips on her Indigogo page&#8211;here&#8217;s a teaser she posted yesterday:<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/165521172\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Jason, who shares the following: Not sure if you&#8217;ve seen this Indiegogo campaign to help finish a doc on the RCI transmitter site&#8230;I think I may have first heard about this from your blog? https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/spectres-of-shortwave-last-steps#\/ Thanks, Jason! Yes, you might have heard about Spectres of Shortwave here as I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,960,3,43],"tags":[2674,631,1040,30,1197,1840],"class_list":["post-18713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-amanda-dawn-christie","tag-radio-canada-international","tag-radio-canada-international-cuts","tag-rci","tag-rci-sackville","tag-spectres-of-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4RP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16757,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/spectres-of-shortwave-near-completion\/","url_meta":{"origin":18713,"position":0},"title":"Spectres of Shortwave: near completion","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who shares this CBC New Brunswick article about Amanda Dawn Christie's film, Spectres of Shortwave: (Source: CBC) Amanda Dawn Christie launching documentary about demise of RCI towers Documentary 'Spectres of Shortwave' to be finished in time for possible premiere at Toronto's Hot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SackvilleCurtainAntennas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43162,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spectres-of-shortwave-amanda-dawn-christies-film-about-rci-sackville-now-streaming\/","url_meta":{"origin":18713,"position":1},"title":"Spectres of Shortwave: Amanda Dawn Christie&#8217;s film about RCI Sackville now streaming","author":"Thomas","date":"May 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"IMPORTANT UPDATE - Amanda Dawn Christie notes: \"Unfortunately [this video] was never supposed to be public \u2013 it was an accident on my part. The film will be viewable soon though, for seven days. May 26 to June 1. It is being hosted by a gallery in Montreal. 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Little did Christie know when she started shooting the film several years ago that the site would not only be be shut\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RCI-SpectresOfShortwave","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RCI-SpectresOfShortwave.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RCI-SpectresOfShortwave.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RCI-SpectresOfShortwave.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RCI-SpectresOfShortwave.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43527,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spectres-of-shortwave-streaming-free-online-may-26-june-1-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":18713,"position":3},"title":"Spectres of Shortwave: Streaming free online May 26 &#8211; June 1, 2020","author":"Thomas","date":"May 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Amanda Dawn Christie, who notes that Spectres of Shortwave is once again viewable online: Hi Thomas, the [Spectres of Shortwave] video is freely viewable online for a week now. The link just went live this week, hosted by Daziabo gallery... feel free to share! It will be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SpectresOfShortwave.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SpectresOfShortwave.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SpectresOfShortwave.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SpectresOfShortwave.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6155,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/spectres-of-shortwave-rci-sackville-documentary-seeks-support\/","url_meta":{"origin":18713,"position":4},"title":"Spectres of Shortwave: RCI Sackville documentary seeks support","author":"Thomas","date":"April 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year, we mentioned that a documentary film featuring the RCI Sackville transmitter site was in the works. 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