Re: [Videolib] Vendor Question

2013-09-24 Thread Johanna Bauman
Thanks, everyone, for your input. We're going to go ahead and use this vendor and see how it goes, caveats and all. Cheers, Johanna +++ Johanna Bauman Visual Resources Curator Pratt Institute Libraries 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, New York

[Videolib] DVDs Manufactured by Amazon

2013-09-24 Thread Johanna Bauman
Hello again from Brooklyn, Does anyone have experience with purchasing DVDs manufactured on demand by Amazon? We are looking for a copy of Buster Keaton's cameraman and noticed that there is a DVD-R for sale: http://www.amazon.com/Cameraman-Buster-Keaton/dp/B007C95V3S/ref=sr_1_3?s=mov ies-tv

[Videolib] Lejos de Africa DVD

2013-09-24 Thread Sarah E. McCleskey
Anyone got any leads for acquiring this DVD? Lejos de Africa Black Island / Alicia Bogo; Isabel Mestres; Xabier Elorriaga; Carlos Cruz; Patricio Wood; Idelfonso Tamayo; Cecilia Bartolomé; José T Bartolomé; Adrian Lipp; Camilo Vives 1996 Spanish Visual Material Visual Material :

Re: [Videolib] Lejos de Africa DVD

2013-09-24 Thread Sarah E. McCleskey
I think I found it! http://www.cinematecacubana.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1225 Answered my own question ... -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah E. McCleskey Sent: Tuesday, September 24,

Re: [Videolib] DVDs Manufactured by Amazon

2013-09-24 Thread Sarah Hudson
I have purchased DVD-R items from Amazon , and I’ve never had a complaint about the quality of the recording. This is the Amazon statement about DVD-R products they sell : This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply This

Re: [Videolib] DVDs Manufactured by Amazon

2013-09-24 Thread Sarah Hudson
To Clarify: I only purchased titles offered directly by Amazon, not by third party sellers. Sarah Sarah Hudson AV / Programming Librarian Henderson County Public Library shud...@henderson.lib.nc.us 828-697-4725 Ext. 2319 -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu

Re: [Videolib] DVDs Manufactured by Amazon

2013-09-24 Thread Michael Phillips
Hello Johanna, According to our records, we have purchased 38 Amazom.com DVD-R titles since March 2011. I do not see where we had to return any of them due to defects. While Roger is correct in that sometimes the DVD-R titles sold by Amazon.com may be from 'questionable' sellers, others are

[Videolib] Prints of Dead Alive (Peter Jackson) and Ringu (Nakata)

2013-09-24 Thread Miller, Joan
Hello, I'm looking for 35mm prints of DEAD ALIVE (aka BRAINDEAD dir. Peter Jackson, 1992) and RINGU (dir. Nakata, 1998). Does anyone know who distributes these two titles? Thank you, Joan Miller Joan Miller Head Archivist Wesleyan Cinema Archives 301 Washington Terrace Middletown, CT 06459

Re: [Videolib] DVDs Manufactured by Amazon

2013-09-24 Thread Jessica Rosner
I want to 2nd this re TCM/Warner Bros. It would be INSANE to buy DVD-R copy of The Cameraman which may be illegal when Warner Bros has a lovely copy with lots of extras for $30 On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Brown, Roger rbr...@oid.ucla.edu wrote: Hi, Johanna, These Amazon DVD-r deals are

Re: [Videolib] DVDs Manufactured by Amazon

2013-09-24 Thread Jessica Rosner
OK I just want to confirm that this copy is an ILLEGAL bootleg ( and I don't think it will up much longer). On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Johanna Bauman jbaum...@pratt.edu wrote: Hello again from Brooklyn, ** ** Does anyone have experience with purchasing DVDs manufactured on

Re: [Videolib] Prints of Dead Alive (Peter Jackson) and Ringu (Nakata)

2013-09-24 Thread Jessica Rosner
Joan this is probably not the best place for 35mm info. You should sign up for either Art House Convergence yahoo group or the film programmers group where getting 35mm prints is a major discussion issue. The contact for the programmers group is Dylan Skulnick who you can email here and he can

[Videolib] Kino Lorber Edu is excited to announce the free distribution of LEGACY OF A DREAM!

2013-09-24 Thread Serena Koch
Kino Lorber and Richard Kaplan are proud to announce the support of Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Puffin Foundation for the free distribution of LEGACY OF A DREAM to every middle and high school in the five boroughs of New York on DVD. In addition, Kino Lorber Edu is offering the film

[Videolib] moving to open stacks

2013-09-24 Thread Fleischer, Richard M.
Hi videlib The Tisch library is in the early planning stages of moving the library DVD collection from a closed to open stacks. We want to keep the collection together in one place. The current filing system is by call number dv1 is the first film in the collection dv13912 is the last film

Re: [Videolib] moving to open stacks

2013-09-24 Thread Windsor, Matthew
Hi Richard, We recently moved our collection to open stacks. We shelve by call number and for security we kept the physical dvds behind the circulation desk in slimline dvd cases. When a patron brings a case to check out the student worker locates the disk and places the slimline case on its

Re: [Videolib] moving to open stacks

2013-09-24 Thread John Pyle
We moved to an open stacks model here at Temple about a year ago. The open stacks are shelved alphabetically by title for easy browsing, and are limited to our feature films, TV shows, and popular documentaries in the interest of space. For security purposes, the open stacks consist of

Re: [Videolib] moving to open stacks

2013-09-24 Thread Lock, Mary Beth
Richard, We moved our DVD collection from closed stacks to open stacks in 2010. We have about 12,000 DVDs in the collection. The DVDs themselves are kept behind the desk and people that want to check out the item bring the case to the desk and ask for the DVD. We arranged the DVD cases on the

Re: [Videolib] moving to open stacks

2013-09-24 Thread Deb Distante
We did this a couple of years ago and it's been wildly popular and successful. It was made easier by the fact that a few years before that, we actually put real call numbers on all of our titles, rather than having them in number order, as you appear to do. I would highly recommend

Re: [Videolib] moving to open stacks

2013-09-24 Thread Karen Glover
Hi Richard, We opened our DVD collection in 2005 when we only had a few hundred films.  Our collection has grown to a little more than 4,000.  We keep them in a space with our popular collection.  We label all of our DVDs with an LC call number.  The call number is placed on a DVD case for

Re: [Videolib] moving to open stacks

2013-09-24 Thread Maureen Tripp
hi Richard, We have had a circulating DVD collection in open stacks for several years now. The DVDs are given LC numbers. We don't separate the discs from the cases. We've had a bit of theft, but not anything horrific. Maureen Tripp Iwasaki Library, Emerson College

Re: [Videolib] PAL and SECAM

2013-09-24 Thread Deg Farrelly
Thanx, Judy I guess I missed the part of the conversation about the video being in VHS. Completely off my radar now. Even if a computer DVD drive will play a PAL DVD, I have heard that after X number of uses the drive will lock onto the non-NTSC standard and will thereafter play ONLY that