[net.video] A New Topic?

urban@trwspp2.UUCP (09/24/84)

Here's an idea for a new topic: the Video Wishlist.
What home-video programs would YOU like to see?

The Special-Effects LaserDisk.  How various special
visuals are done for films.  Single-frame through
the "Genesis" sequence of Startrek II or some of
the complex double-exposure effects that usually
go by too quickly to properly appreciate.

The 1984 Olympics Album:  the events of the Olympics
could be packaged in a number of different ways:
The Opening Ceremonies (if you have a LaserDisk, you
can just have single-frames for each country during
the Parade of Nations, a` la the Shuttle Archive),
separate tape/disk programs for in-depth treatment
of individual sports (a two-hour tape on just
women's gymnastics, for example, could cover many of
the fine athletes that ABC missed)... the list is
endless.  The "official" videotape of the Olympics
promises to be a real piece of American cheese, BTW.

Movies for television.  Feature films often lose something
(like 1/4 the picture) on the small screen, but there
have been exceptional TV-movies that deserve to be sold
for the home-video market.  Some of these have already
been marketed, but are hard to find (Autobiography of
Miss Jane Pittman, for example); others have not yet
been distributed for home sale (I'd like to see
"Sybil", "Eleanor and Franklin", "The People", and
probably a few more I could think up, again.) .

Any more ideas?

	Mike
	trwrb!trwspp!urban

abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) (09/27/84)

Sure.  I'd like to see grand opera on VHS.  I'm willing to sacrifice 
"golden ears" sound for the visual rewards of seeing them acted out.

And I'd like to be able to rent them from the local video_tape emporium.


Brint Cooper

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ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (09/27/84)

If you had one of the new high-fi formats you could have both.  The
problem is production for video.  Stage lighting and costume and set
colors get shot all to hell in the video process.

-Ron