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- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
- Path: sparky!uunet!looking!brad
- From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
- Subject: Re: Film/video room
- Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:05:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.200527.15037@clarinet.com>
- References: <zardoz.04x7@sycom.mi.org>
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- You have to admit it's a different world these days. I see little point
- in a video room that runs Star Wars or the Back to the Future videos, or
- for that matter anything that you can get in a typical video store.
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- In the pre-video days, a con video room was the only place you were likely
- to be introduced to most of the old SF video. Those days are gone.
-
- Today, if there is to be a video room, it should concentrate on the
- obscure -- what is not found in video houses. If it weren't for the
- unusual fact that The Wizard of Speed and Time is available on video,
- it would be an ideal candidate.
-
- Other things, including shorts like hardware wars and bambi meets godzilla
- and so on, would be appropriate.
-
- That probably means a much shorter program. Is this a bad thing? Do
- we need a 24 hour viewing room?
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- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
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