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- From: kat@werple.apana.org.au (Kathryn Andersen)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
- Subject: Re: Film/video room
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 09:05:20 +1100
- Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
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- brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
-
- >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.
- I agree that with the large number of people who have video recorders
- (or know people who do) that a video room should concentrate on the
- obscure - but the "obscure" can vary greatly.
-
- >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.
-
- I'm not so sure that "those days are gone", unless I misunderstand what
- yoy mean by "the old SF video". There are different ways that a video may
- be obscure:
- (a) it may be too old
- Rare old episodes (usually B/W) of things like Doctor Who or The Avengers
- fall into this category
- (b) it may be too new
- For example, Australia is about 3 years behind in the showing of Star Trek
- the Next Generation - so the latest episodes of the series are a good
- thing for a video room over here
- (c) it may be foriegn and unshown locally
- - Blake's 7 was first shown at conventions in the States before it was ever
- shown on TV there
- - Two British SF shows ("Star Cops" & "Sapphire & Steel") have never been
- shown in Australia (and probably never will); I first saw them at
- conventions.
- (BTW, I don't suppose anyone out there can tell me what '1990' was like?
- It starred Edward Woodward, another good British SF, I gather)
- - Japanese Anime is another obvious example.
-
- Now, it may well be that there is less of this now than in the past,
- but I don't think the video room is dying!
-
- Kathryn Andersen
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