pkh@sam.cs.cmu.edu (Ping Kang Hsiung) (10/03/88)
Does any know how (and at where) I might be able to locate the Luxo Jr. by Pixar on video? Is it in the Siggraph Video Collection? Thanks.
beach@arisia.Xerox.COM (Rick Beach) (10/05/88)
An excerpt of Luxo Jr. appears in SIGGRAPH Video Review Issue 26. This issue is the electronic theatre presentation from the CHI+GI'87 conference held in Toronto, Canada during April 1987. (In VHS format this is accompanied by the first of 3 hours of the CHI+GI'87 technical video stream as a combined issue 26+27.) An excerpt of both Luxo Jr. and Red's Dream appear in SIGGRAPH Video Review issue 30, the "Visualization: State of the Art" summary of SIGGRAPH'87. Issue 26 (3/4" U-Matic) $50 Issue 26&27 (VHS) $50 Issue 30 (2-hours 3/4" U-Matic with reference binder) $395 Issue 30 (2-hours VHS with reference binder) $395 Order videotapes through the ACM Order Department PO Box 64145 Baltimore, MD 21264 Credit card purchases may be made by calling (800)342-6626. From Maryland, Alaska and outside the U.S., please call (301)528-4261. Richard J. Beach SIGGRAPH Editor-in-Chief
ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth) (10/10/88)
In article <49@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> paquette@.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) writes: >In article <431@arisia.Xerox.COM>, beach@arisia.Xerox.COM (Rick Beach) writes: > .. stuff deteled.. >> >> From Maryland, Alaska and outside the U.S., please call (301)528-4261. >Why is it most American companies think that there is nothing north >of the 49th parallel?? Most companies only get 1-800 numbers for >the States and force thier Canadian customers to call long-distance. >Granted the Canadian market is not a big as the American.. but it is >there just the same. To set the record straight, the fault lies not with Rick Beach (who is a Canadian), but with ACM (no, the "A" does not stand for "American", but they think it does). Yes, I live in Canada (but am an American). Now (the part worth posting): If you live in Canada (or anywhere else), you can reach US 800 numbers by calling a friend in the US who has a semi-sophisticated phone system (usually this means a work phone). SL-1 is an example (which I'll use here -- other Centrex-like systems have similar features). You call up a US friend who answers. Your US friend hits "Conference-3" (or "Conference-6") on his phone, then dials for an outside line (usually 9) and then dials 1-800-***-****. When the party answers, he hits the "Conference-3" button again. The three of you are now talking. Your friend hangs up. The two of you are now talking. [Note: This works equally well if your friend is a she.] Cost to you: Long distance to your friend (drop a perpendicular to the US and locate a friend there). Cost to your friend: Zip (unless his/her company has a screwball accounting system, in which case there may a minimal charge more or less equivalent to a local brief call). Cost to the 800 party: Whatever they pay from your friends's location in the US, which they were (presumably) willing to pay anyway.
helen@prism.TMC.COM (10/11/88)
I picked up an order card at SIGGRAPH that lets you order *complete*
versions of both Luxo Jr. and Red's Dream. They are probably show
specials, but are worth checking into.
Luxo Jr. 1/2 inch NTSC-VHS only
Special Price $14.95 per copy + Shipping
Red's Dream 1/2 inch NTSC-VHS only
Special Price $19.95 per copy + Shipping
Both Films Special Price $34.95 per set -- Includes Shipping
U.S. Shipping is $5 for the first copy, and $2 for each
additional copy. Orders must be prepaid by check or credit
card to qualify for the special prices.
Contact:
Direct Cinema Limited
Post Office Box 69799
Los Angeles, CA 90069 Phone: (213) 652-8000