Fabulous! Thanks, Brigid! (I forgot all about Mystic Fire... Most (all though certainly not all) of the stuff that was distributed by Tamarelle's is currently in DVD, I think...my heart still breaks about Voyager dropping out years ago)
gary > More out-of-business distributors: > > AGC United Learning > Blackhawk Films > Brandon Films > Cerebellum Company > Encyclopedia Brittanica Educational Corporation > Film Images > Grove Press > Harper and Row Publishers > Home Vision > Learning Corporation of America > Macmillan Films > Menninger Video Productions > Multifocus International > Mystic Fire Video > Serious Business Company > Tamarelle’s International Films > Television Licensing Center > The Voyager Company > Wishing Well Distributing > > > CRM Films is now CRM Learning, a management training video > distributor; it is still in business. > > > Brigid Duffy > Academic Technology > San Francisco State University > San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 > E-mail: [email protected] > > > > On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for all who responded to my query re out o' business >> distributors. >> I'm informed that the Latin American Video Archive (LAVA) did, indeed, >> distribute some materials in their database, so I'll add these to the >> list. >> >> In thinking thru which classes or varieties of material may have a >> high >> likelihood of being OP and unobtainable, it also occurred to me that >> besides the catalogs of defunct distributors, we may also want to >> think >> about >> >> PBS titles distributed before 2000 (seems to me that this is >> lamentable >> but true in a large number of cases) >> >> Titles purchased from associations, professional organizations, >> research >> organizations before 2000 >> >> Self-distributed, independently produced titles released before 2000 >> >> What am I leaving out? >> >> >> >> >> Gary Handman >> Director >> Media Resources Center >> Moffitt Library >> UC Berkeley >> >> 510-643-8566 >> [email protected] >> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC >> >> "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." >> --Francois Truffaut >> >> >> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, >> acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current >> and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It >> is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for >> video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between >> libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and >> distributors. > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 [email protected] http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
