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- Announcing...
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- "The Deathbed Vigil and Other Tales"
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- a film by Dave Haynie
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- Approximately 2 hours on VHS tape
- NTSC only right now (I'll be looking into a PAL conversion)
- Only $25.00, $5.00 shipping US/Canada, $7.00 shipping elsewhere.
-
- SO, WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT
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- As some of you know, some may not know, on April 27,
- Commodore layed off over 66% of its remaining staff in West
- Chester, include most of Engineering and Engineering Services.
- That following Friday, April 29, they announced Bankruptcy
- proceedings had been taken in the Bahamas.
-
- I got the inspiration to film some of these last days,
- certainly the last days of Commodore as we have all known it,
- no matter whether anything is salvaged by a buyout or not. So
- I filmed a walkaround of the West Chester facility, the going
- away party that took place on the 27th, and especially the
- Deathbed Vigil party.
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- The Deathbed Vigil was organized by Bryce Nesbitt and
- Randall Jesup, held at Randall's place on April 30th. Although
- the notice was short, many of the people from the "Golden Years"
- of West Chester made it back. My film documents this in detail,
- covering songs (including the "Chicken-Lips Blues", written at
- the party and performed by Mike Rivers), a number of special
- events, and many, many stories.
-
- I have had lots of requests for this since I filmed it,
- so I figured I would put out an announcement here. Don't feel
- compelled to order it, I'm not going to starve even if Commodore
- closes down. For any big Commodore/Amiga fan, though, it should
- be lots of fun to put faces to the names you've heard. And for
- us it was at least something of a catharsis; none of this has
- been easy to deal with.
-
- CAVEATS
-
- We're not talking film artestry here. This was filmed
- with my Sony 8mm and minimally edited on my A3000+. I had a few
- offers of free studio time, but decided that if I couldn't do it
- on my system, we must have missed on the promise of desktop
- video. I'm not finished editing just yet, but I can tell you,
- we haven't. There's no glitz, this is after all a documentary,
- some of it's as shakey as an AT&T commercial. There are also a
- few rather raw segments, so don't order this if you're offended
- by a little harsh language.
-
- That's about all I have to say on it. This will be ready
- by mid-June.
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