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In July 2008 I digitized a video about Tecnica from VHS and posted it to
Google/Video. This was before Google bought Youtube and when it was a
reasonable alternative for longer videos like “Tecnica—at Work in
Nicaragua”, which ran for 20 minutes.
I just took a look at my posting of the Google video on my blog that
month and was pleased to see the late Roger Burbach’s comment:
Louis,
Great article and video. You captured the spirit of the 80s in Nicaragua
and among those internationalistas to went to participate in a dream.
Drop me a note.
Roger Burbach
I was not so pleased, however, to have learned a few months ago that the
video had disappeared. A bit of research turned up the following on
Wikipedia:
On April 15, 2011, Google announced via email that after April 29 they
would no longer allow playback of content hosted on their service, but
reversed the decision one week later to provide users with greater
support for migration to YouTube. Google Video was shut down and
replaced by Google Videos on August 20, 2012. The remaining Google
Videos content was automatically moved to YouTube.
Well, I never got any fucking email from fucking Google because I did
not have a Gmail account at the time. Or maybe I had a Gmail account and
they never bothered to contact me. In the meantime I had disposed of the
VHS tape and was now shit out of luck. Email to the few Tecnica returned
volunteers I had contact with turned up nothing.
Searching around desperately, I discovered that a copy of the tape was
in the University of Wisconsin’s historical archives for Tecnica—I guess
a cardboard box sitting somewhere for people doing research on
Nicaragua. I called them up to see if they could send me a copy but was
upset to learn from the first person I spoke to that they did not do
such things. When I remonstrated with the person about how we had risked
our lives in volunteering in Nicaragua (Ben Linder was not a volunteer
but our volunteers completed his project), she turned me over to the
head librarian who was kind enough to have a DVD made. This is finished
product, hopefully something that will not get lost in a corporate black
hole again.
Video is at: https://vimeo.com/122913123
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