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This is a White House email release covering February 1998 to August 2000. It is a set of Exchange mail records with attachments. One item is the President's February 19, 1998 remarks to a DNC dinner in West Orange, New Jersey, which includes a joke that young people think seeing a UFO is more likely than drawing Social Security. Other items are a joke 'Redneck Driver's License Application', an AP story about Chilca, Peru, where locals credit UFOs for the mud's powers, a Blair Witch Project article, and a Baltimore Sun article forwarded by the White House Situation Room about UFO FOIA requests to the NSA.
37C3DAA2.FIN Page 3 of 5 http://classified/ernail/data_source/exchange/non-record/cd039/augl999/37c3daa2.html 1/5/2010 "The Blair Witch Project," shot for less than $300,000 on 16mm and video, would showcase their low-budget inventiveness and attract a distributor looking to make a quick buck. Instead, "The Blair Witch Project" became the sensation of this year's Sundance Film Festival after a midnight screening sent some people into the streets convinced what they had just seen was real. "We were amazed," says Myrick. "I mean, these are supposed to be sophisticated people in the movie business, and they're, like, buying it. Our first reaction was to be amused, but then we were proud. It was like, 'Hey, isn't this what we wanted to do in the first place?' fl Sanchez and Myrick had, in fact, gone to elaborate extremes to make the footage in "Blair Witch" appear authentic. After looking at hundreds of actors, they chose Heather Donahue to play the entirely-too-ambitious director, Joshua Leonard to be her ponytailed cameraman and Michael Williams as their soundman. After giving Donahue and Williams a crash course in using the equipment (Leonard had actually shot film and video before) and shooting some establishing interviews with Maryland locals about the legend, they sent the trio into the Black Hills on their own. "They had a script outline, but they really didn't know what they were going to encounter out there, because we wanted them to react naturally," says Sanchez. "We gave them GPS (Global Positioning System) handsets to guide them from location to location, and then we shadowed them, far enough behind that they were unaware of our presence. "At night,
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.