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- From: Beth.Friedman@p5.f341.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Beth Friedman)
- Sender: FredGate@tdkt.kksys.com
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- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
- Subject: Re: 10-Fan Quorum and like that
- Message-ID: <725780456.AA00878@tdkt.kksys.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:49:56 -0600
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- MVP> That's also what BayCon did, and the studios said
- MVP> $250 per film per showing.
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- MVP> Period. No options, no alternatives. $250 per film
- MVP> per showing.
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- MVP> That's why BayCon had no film film program this year.
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- Minicon had a similar problem, and went to a video rental place that had already
- secured rights to show the videos to audiences under certain conditions that we
- were able to meet. I think the cost was on the order of $500. As far as I'm
- concerned, I could do without the video room, but a lot of people seem to like
- it.
-
- As far as I can tell, movie (film) rental doesn't involve the same sort of issue
- -- it is assumed when you rent a 16 mm film that you're going to be showing it
- to a group.
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