Re: Alfred Hitchcock Collection I and II

Jessica (jesskino@redconnect.net)
Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:19:46 -0700 (PDT)

If you bought Jamaica Inn from Facets it was hopefully our good copy . In
any case it is not the copyright you need to worry about but the quality. I
took another look at " the Hitchock collection"
It is something like Seven features for $30 bucks. I could be wrong but I
would not expect much at that price. Kino specializes in putting out really
great copies of many public domain titles but it costs money for good
quality. I am always frustrated when people balk that our tapes and now
DVD's cost $5 or $10 more than some crappy copy. I actually did not know
there were horrid DVD's out there until I started to hear about Mandacy and
others. Just remember if it sounds too good or too cheap to be true, it
probably is a rotten copy
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>From: Judy Jones <judyjones@csus.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <videolib@library.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: RE: Alfred Hitchcock Collection I and II
>Date: Fri, Jun 2, 2000, 8:02 PM
>

>We bought a large number of titles, including Jamaica Inn, from Facets. I
>don't know about marketing them as I and II, but most of the early ones are
>British. Far as I can tell no copyright as broken in purchasing these
>titles.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jessica [mailto:jesskino@redconnect.net]
>Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 11:13 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Re: Alfred Hitchcock Collection I and II
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>I would be very leery of "volume 1) It is all bootlegs of films which are
>fully copyrighted under
>GATT. I actually noticed one of the titles we licence ( Jamaica Inn) listed
>so I just passed this on to the right's holder. I am not actually suggesting
>you should worry about the copyright as that is a right's holders problem
>but from experience much of this stuff is JUNK. I know nothing about this
>particular disc or company ( laserlight) but DON"T assume that because it is
>on DVD it is good quality
>There is a company called Mandacy that puts out titles so wretched that are
>actually WORSE than the bad videos. As always buyer beware when dealing with
>these companies
>
>Jessica Rosner
>Kino
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>>From: Diane Sybeldon <ac7255@wayne.edu>
>>To: Multiple recipients of list <videolib@library.berkeley.edu>
>>Subject: Alfred Hitchcock Collection I and II
>>Date: Fri, Jun 2, 2000, 4:52 PM
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>>Does anyone know of a distributor for the
>>Alfred Hitchcock Collection I and II (DVD)?
>>(Not to be confused with the Alfred Hitchcock Collection
>>which Movies Unlimited carries.)
>>Amazon.com has "I" and "II" but I can't use credit-card-only vendors.
>>Thanks -
>>Diane
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>>Diane Sybeldon
>>Instruction/Media Librarian
>>David Adamany Undergraduate Library
>>Wayne State University
>>Detroit, Michigan 48202
>>(313) 577-4480 (voice)
>>(313) 577-5265 (fax)
>>ac7255@wayne.edu (email)
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