Gary I looked at this list VERY quickly and there are two obvious mistakes. The Leopard & Berlin Alexanderplatz are both on DVD from Criterion There many others where I am not sure which version you are looking for, say Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dr. Jeckyl. On Genesis is that is the African feature, Kino has it.
I am less than certain how "good" the NYU project is as there is HUGE difference between some very rare educational type films that are not DVD and studio, indie & foreign films that are not. I had my little "disagreement" with one the main people behind this , who told a session at ALA that one should NOT contact the rights holder regarding the rights because they might actually say no, therefor the goal was merely to establish that the item was rare and not available and the rights were irrelevant. Not only is that a deliberate attempt to violate copyright but would lead to an incredibly stupid waste of resources. Why in the world would a US library "preserve" some early french short already archival preserved in their home country ( and this was actually one item that was mentioned at said ALA session). On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > I think I mentioned awhile back the interesting Mellon funded grant > project that NYU and UCB are currently working on... It's a preservation > project aimed at identifying (and dealing with) video titles that are > out-of-distribution and physically at risk (particularly titles that have > limited US holdings) > > In any case, as part of this project, I just culled thru Berkeley's > feature film holdings and identified the vhs titles that are not currently > available on DVD in the US marketplace. The list, fyi, is attached. > > A few caveats: We haven't as yet done an extensive search for legal-copy > DVD replacements in the OP marketplace (e.g. amazon marketplace), nor have > we searched non-US sources at this point. This is just a quick first > pass. > The list also does not, at the moment, include stuff such as shorts > (silents, avant garde, animation etc.)that are currently only available on > VHS anthologies. > > PS: Chris Lewis...weren't you maintaining a list of titles that had never > been released on DVD? If so, could you pls publish the list. Merci! > > 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.
