Check this guy out:

http://www.sell.com/2527LQ

Bootleg of the complete series. 

Tim

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> On Jan 11, 2014, at 6:02 PM, "Andy Ditzler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger, 
> 
> I hadn't checked recently and didn't know about this DVD release - thanks for 
> the tip - but it looks like it's a condensed two-hour version of the original 
> 12-hour series. At least something's out there, but nothing can replace the 
> scope of the full series. Sad. 
> 
> Andy Ditzler
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Beebe, Roger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> RE: An American Family, it's true that it was long unavailable, but it was 
>> released on DVD in 2011, so now it needs not simply be the stuff of legend:
>> 
>> http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=11645510
>> 
>> ...
>> R.
>> 
>>> On Jan 11, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Andy Ditzler wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jean Rouch should definitely be mentioned, especially Les Maitres Fous, 
>>> Jaguar, and Chronicle of a Summer - as he influenced Godard and the French 
>>> New Wave. The unavailability of his films in the U.S. has eased in recent 
>>> months due to institutional DVD copies being made available through Icarus. 
>>> 
>>> Much ethnographic film from various eras would apply: The Ax Fight 
>>> (self-reflexivity) and To Live With Herds (observational cinema landmark) 
>>> come to mind, as does Mead and Bateson's groundbreaking work like Trance 
>>> and Dance in Bali. Also Robert Gardner's Forest of Bliss and Lucien 
>>> Taylor's and Verena Paravel's recent Leviathan (for ideas of "sensory 
>>> ethnography"). 
>>> 
>>> Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason, for ideas of changing representation of 
>>> black and LGBT cultures and figures in documentary. Of course, Black Audio 
>>> Film Collective's Handsworth Songs and everything by Marlon Riggs. 
>>> 
>>> Further away from experimental here, but an argument could be made for This 
>>> Is Spinal Tap as a pivotal work of "fake documentary," with influence far 
>>> beyond comedy/fiction. 
>>> 
>>> Definitively unavailable, and completely pivotal: An American Family. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Andy Ditzler
>>> www.filmlove.org
>>> www.johnq.org
>>> Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:19 PM, David Tetzlaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I'm looking to help a friend do research on the history of documentary, 
>>>> and I'd like to introduce him to some of the more experimental side of the 
>>>> form. For his purposes, the work needs to available on video: he needs to 
>>>> see stuff, not just read about it, and he needs to be able to pull decent 
>>>> quality clips for presentation. So I'm not looking for more purely 
>>>> experimental films that have some actuality footage, but something more 
>>>> readily recognizable under a (very) broad rubric of 'documentary'.
>>>> 
>>>> Something like "Sonic Outlaws' or "Odds of Recovery" would be pretty 
>>>> central examples. About as far down the experimental scale I'd want to get 
>>>> would be such films as "Window Water Baby Moving" or "Sink or Swim." 
>>>> (Thus, for example, "Thigh Line Lyre Triangular" is too 'far out' for this 
>>>> purpose.) I'd also welcome suggestions for essay-form docs beyond Marker 
>>>> (which I've already got). Another example of such might be Mulvey's 'Frida 
>>>> Kahlo / Tina Modotti"
>>>> 
>>>> With those loose guidelines, feel free to recommend away without worrying 
>>>> too much about the 'fit'. I can/will edit the recs I pass on...
>>>> 
>>>> TIA!
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