[78-L] A word of warning concerning playback of Warner "Big Band" set Re: They are practically Giving away the Vitaphone DVD set!

[David Lennick]

Crawling around the video room at Sam The Record Man on Boxing Day, trying to 
find all 6 of the Rocky & Bullwinkle Laserdiscs and get them discounted..

dl

Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> Oh, boy, do I remember how much these sets cost. I got good prices on them,
> but wound up selling them when the DVD was introduced.
> 
> Jeff Sultanof
> 
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:07 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
>> Remember when we'd pony up hundreds of bucks for those laserdisc sets? I
>> still
>> have my discs and the player was repaired a year ago (it got zapped by too
>> many
>> power outages) but I haven't even plugged it in.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Jeff Sultanof wrote:
>>> I gotta say, I am so thrilled to have these as one boxed DVD set. I had
>> the
>>> laser disc boxed sets that had the great majority of them, so it is great
>> to
>>> have them again. I've been watching this set on and off since it came on
>>> Friday, and I love what I see and hear. It was an incredible thrill to
>> see
>>> the 1945 Jan Savitt Orchestra, one of the great big bands with strings of
>>> that period, which is very poorly documented.
>>>
>>> I hope sales are good on these sorts of items, because I'd love some
>>> Vitaphone shorts sets from the films that have been restored by UCLA
>> thanks
>>> to The Vitaphone Project. The Ben Pollack short that can be found on
>> YouTube
>>> would be wonderful to have. There is a Vitaphone Fred Allen short that I
>> saw
>>> years ago at the Museum of Modern Art that I'd love to see again, etc.
>> etc.
>>> Jeff Sultanof
>>>