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Post by tom rogers on Mar 27, 2024 9:26:49 GMT
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Post by anthonybartley on Mar 27, 2024 9:48:24 GMT
Not to be too cynical about this, but if I or anyone regular person approached a film archive or library with "films we taped off the telly", then I think we'd probably be laughed at and our collection would be promptly rejected.
There's also the issue that Scorsese doesn't own the copyright for probably all of the tapes he's donated. So I guess it's okay to copy films and give them to people, as the article clearly implies, as long as you're a famous director. Not only that, but these copies "need to be digitised" - not because they're 'rare' but simply because he owned them. A quick scan of the tapes and it's probably stuff he's taped off TV or asked someone for a copy. I doubt many film archives were unspooling rare 35mm prints and creating crude telecine dubs just so he could give copies away to his friends and colleagues. If there was anything rare or considered lost before, the article doesn't single out anything specific.
Wouldn't a simple paper list of his favourite films have sufficed here? I think he's done stacks of 'my favourite films' interviews over the years. Also, it's not like anyone except for people living nearby to this place would even have access to them in the first place.
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Post by RWels on Mar 27, 2024 12:00:01 GMT
Home recording isn't a crime and he's not selling or multiplying them.
But movies recorded off the telly - well the tapes could help for a limited set of questions. But I'm not holding my breath for any lost programs.
Good news for the "W/O/C" community though. (Or should I call it the "‘interstitial’ materials" community?)
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Post by tom rogers on Mar 27, 2024 14:35:48 GMT
Home recording isn't a crime and he's not selling or multiplying them. But movies recorded off the telly - well the tapes could help for a limited set of questions. But I'm not holding my breath for any lost programs. Good news for the "W/O/C" community though. (Or should I call it the "‘interstitial’ materials" community?) Yeah, that is what stood out for me the most. The bumpers/interstitial stuff that he might have. That and local programming. |
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Post by Robert Mammone on Mar 27, 2024 23:32:11 GMT
Not to be too cynical about this, but if I or anyone regular person approached a film archive or library with "films we taped off the telly", then I think we'd probably be laughed at and our collection would be promptly rejected. There's also the issue that Scorsese doesn't own the copyright for probably all of the tapes he's donated. So I guess it's okay to copy films and give them to people, as the article clearly implies, as long as you're a famous director. Not only that, but these copies "need to be digitised" - not because they're 'rare' but simply because he owned them. A quick scan of the tapes and it's probably stuff he's taped off TV or asked someone for a copy. I doubt many film archives were unspooling rare 35mm prints and creating crude telecine dubs just so he could give copies away to his friends and colleagues. If there was anything rare or considered lost before, the article doesn't single out anything specific. Wouldn't a simple paper list of his favourite films have sufficed here? I think he's done stacks of 'my favourite films' interviews over the years. Also, it's not like anyone except for people living nearby to this place would even have access to them in the first place. You are being a little too cynical. We're talking stuff that's over 40 years old, the majority of which obviously isn't lost. But it is still an interesting historical record and an interesting insight into the research methods of a prominent filmmaker. If the stuff is old enough, like that now deceased taper in Melbourne Australia who was taping stuff off the local TV from at least the start of the 1970s, then it is of significant interest. |
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Post by RWels on Mar 28, 2024 7:54:27 GMT
But there's a very critical difference of more than ten years.
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