> --- In [email protected], Frank Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Friday, August 5, 2005, 10:03:10 PM, James A. Donnelly wrote:
>>
>>Where is all the old stuff?
>>
>>People have been making great short movies and video for many years.
>>They have been showing them to friends, at local clubs, and submitting
>>them to festivals and competitions. Now we are at a stage where
>>distribution is as easy as uploading a file to the archive (or any
>>other web site), but the overwhelming attention is on the _new_.
>>
>>Have we really let all that great creativity just go to waste? Tapes
>>worn out and/or thown in the trash before they could be copied? I fear
>>that many of the most active amateur videomakers from the 1980s and
>>1990s may now be too old to bother.
>
>
> Now listen here you young whipper-snapper, I was making films on Super8 when the
> amateur videomakers from the 1980s and 1990s were still wearing short pants. I'm not
> "too old to bother" yet. I am currently trying to get all of my old films back (they are at my
> ex's house and while she says I can have them there's the logistics involved; I live in
> Mexico and she's in Rhode Island. I'm working on it, and when I get them digitized I'll
> upload them.
...And once I hook up the VCR to my G4 and bust out the VHS tapes,
you'll see some 1988-1992 Pixelvision in all it's glory!
Pete
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