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Jed might be shocked to hear this but I have been known to tell people to
ignore
the bit about not listing & publicizing films outside of major cities. How
the hell are they supposed to know what you are showing. Frankly this
clause basically dates back to
a different era when it was possible that you might somehow be showing the
same titles
as a commercial theater. So long as it is not a Disney title, no one else
seems to care
Bad Jessica
FYI you could always get PPR from nice places like Kino & Milestone who
would let
you publicize up the wazoo
-- Jessica Rosner Kino International 333 W 39th St. 503 NY NY 10018 jrosner@kino.com 212-629-6880From: "Barb Read" <bread@charter.net> Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:08:51 -0500 To: <videolib@library.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Basta!
Our library, small city, still has VHS only. We did a survey and everyone still had a VCR but not everyone had a DVD. We can not afford to double purchase the same title. Not sure when we will make the jump to DVD but not yet. One word about Public performance. For 3 years we bought the licensing agreement so we could show films. BUT it came with the requirement that we not advertise what we were showing outside the library. we just did not get enough folks coming for our "pig in a poke" shows. This year we decided not to renew the license and stop showing anything that we did not buy with PPR. It really ticked me off that we were "good kids" and bought the license but then could not put up posters or announce in the paper what we were showing. Felt like a rip off. Barb Read Marysville Public Library ----- Original Message ----- From: Jessica Rosner <mailto:jrosner@kino.com> To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [Videolib] Basta!
sorry Gary I was not belittling it but just the idea the VCRs were somehow obsolete or unavailable. I finally had to give mine up after 17 years, a lovely old TOP LOADING model I STILL have the 17 year TV it came with and the remote is LITERALLY being held together with tape
I am a PROUD luddite
-- Jessica Rosner Kino International 333 W 39th St. 503 NY NY 10018 jrosner@kino.com 212-629-6880From: Gary Handman <ghandman@library.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:13:19 -0700 To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Basta!
...not an inconvenience, Jessica--a cultural catastrophe. We're a culture which allows the marketplace to determine survival or death of cultural capital...or, even worse, the nature of cultural capital itself.
As far as DVD goes, it may be that many independent producers of non-fiction film make the leap to the new format before the fall of VHS. Nonetheless, there are going to be large chunks of our collection which never cross-over. An interesting phenomenon--those of us who have thought of ourselves as curating largely commercial collections are increasingly forced to become archivists as well.
gary
At 12:52 PM 9/22/2004 -0400, you wrote: I think it will MANY years possibly decades before VHS would reasonably considered an obsolete format in terms of availability of players for now the fact that tens of thousands of titles have not /will not make it to DVD is just an inconvenience. Based on Dennis & Gary's assessment DVD may no longer be the dominant format by the time VHS would even be considered obsolete.
Jessica ( who still does not own a DVD player but has a satellite dish to get Cub games)
-- Jessica Rosner Kino International 333 W 39th St. 503 NY NY 10018 jrosner@kino.com 212-629-6880From: "Brewer, Michael" <brewerm@u.library.arizona.edu> Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:59:32 -0700 To: "'videolib@library.berkeley.edu'" <videolib@library.berkeley.edu> Subject: RE: [Videolib] Basta!
Mary,
If a film is not available for sale on newer format and the player needed is no longer available at a "reasonable price," then one can transfer the film to a new medium. This, however, would not be currently possible for those films on DVD that have piracy protection software on them, were that technology to suddenly become obsolete, and players become unavailable, as it is illegal to circumvent this software except for a very few reasons stated by the Librarian of Congress. Of course, this could change (and hopefully it will change so that it becomes legal to circumvent these software controls in order to use portions of these films as allowed under the TEACH act or fair use, which currently do not seem to be provided for).
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Michael Brewer
Slavic Studies, German Studies & Media Arts Librarian
University of Arizona Library A210
1510 E. University
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721
Voice: 520.307.2771
Fax: 520.621.9733
brewerm@u.library.arizona.edu -----Original Message----- From: Mary Seligman [mailto:mseligman@portnet.k12.ny.us] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:22 AM To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Basta!
Gary raises an important issue. I am a librarian in a high school. We have a centralized audio/visual department that's part of our library. Currently, we have 3,000 items in VHS format. Many of these items are shown daily. What happens when VHS is gone -- either replacement players of replacement tapes? Mary Seligman Library Media Specialist Paul D. Schreiber High School Port Washington, NY 11050
Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley ghandman@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
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"Movies are poems, a holy bible, the great mother of us." --Ted Berrigan
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