We charged $850 for an hour-long film and $550 for a half-hour. Of course everything was expensive: creating the internegative, making prints, even the reels, shipping cases and of course postage, because of the weight.
VHS was a lot cheaper, but now with DVD and streaming there are all sorts of upfront costs again in captioning and authoring DVDs, encoding for online, storage and streaming costs etc. Face it. We're in an expensive business from top to toe. John Hoskyns-Abrahall ____________________ Bullfrog Films PO Box 149 Oley, PA 19547 Toll-Free: 800/543-3764 Email: j...@bullfrogfilms.com http://www.bullfrogfilms.com Voice: 610/779-8226 Fax: 610/370-1978 -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:09 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Institutional Pricing for DVDs rant To add to this ongoing discussionŠ a question directed to those who have been in the industry for a long timeŠ What were the going charges for a film in 16mm back in the day before video? I recall wanting desperately to have in my collection many of the Time-Life/McGraw Hill/Pyramid and such titles, but just could not afford them with my @$10-15,000 budget. I was thrilled when I managed to pick up used preview prints of "Ascent of Man" for $100 per print. (about 1979, but that is a guess) With inflation, that figure roughly equates to $296 today. And that was for a used print. We didn't have the home video market at the time. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 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.
