On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:29 PM, <ghand...@library.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > I've been in this biz close to 30 years and have virtually never seen a > title which has gone out of distribution for any period of time come back > in another format. It simply doesn't happen. > Gary. No reflection on the rest of the argument, but even if you're just counting "educational" titles, off the top of my head, we've done or in the process of doing new versions of: PEOPLE OF THE WIND YOU GOT TO MOVE BLACK ROOTS WORD IS OUT BUNKER HILL 1956 GODS OF BALI AND NOW, MIGUEL and we are not known as an educational distributor. I would suspect that WMM and Icarus are doing quite a bit. And of course, archivists are now interested in these kind of films so they are being preserved. In terms of the title in question, there is no way in heck I'd do a new version and I suspect other distributors would agree. But just because it's downloaded or available elsewhere, that doesn't mean it's PD. As for the rest of the argument, I'm out of it. I got too much going on at the moment and I know at least half of this is semantics. -- Best, Dennis Doros Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero PO Box 128 Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 Fax: 201-767-3035 email: milefi...@gmail.com www.milestonefilms.com www.ontheboweryfilm.com www.arayafilm.com www.exilesfilm.com www.wordisoutmovie.com www.killerofsheep.com AMIA Austin 2011: www.amianet.org Join "Milestone Film" on Facebook!
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