[78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?

[Michael Biel]

On 8/1/2011 6:30 PM, Don Chichester wrote:
> I am very much the same: an accumulator, but not of junk.  Just stuff.
>
> Also, I have a huge video collection of Johnny Carson monologues I once thought I'd love to watch again.  Never have.

If the are from the first ten years or so you have a goldmine because 
they are desperate for them.  They have almost everything since the 
mover to L.A. and they have even set up a website where the monologues 
are searchable -- they have put them all thru speech recognition 
programs to make digital scripts.  They make a fortune licensing clips.

>   Lots of Jay Leno Tonight Show monologues, too, in his early days.  I stopped recording when I realised I would probably never watch them again.  Sad.
>
> Don Chichester
>
If you really do want to get rid of them, I'd be interested.

If you had recorded Steve Allen's Westyinghouse series you might be rich 
since Group W purposefully erased them to spite Steve in a contract 
dispute.

Phil Gries has a going business selling dubs of AUDIO recordings of TV 
programs.  He has every program and guest cataloged.  It all boils down 
to cataloging, and that is the problem both of the woman on the program 
as well as myself.  There is probably a lot of valuable stuff in her 
collection -- her son sarcastically put down the possibility that 
someone might ask her for a 1982 Phil Donohue program.  It happens all 
the time.   A few days ago Leah happened to bring up a program from 1982 
that I had recorded that we need to compare with the DVD set of it she 
picked up in Toronto last week. She told me where it is shelved.  The 
WKRP programs we occasionally recorded on first run are noted to be 
different from the DVD issues and the syndicated versions.  There's a 
web site listing all the changes in the various editions.  There are 
lost episodes of Dr. Who which have turned up in private collections.  
There are some amazing things being posted on YouTube from private 
collections that the producers either don't have or are not interested 
in releasing.  Tom Lehrer discovered the existence of the TV show he did 
in Sweden on YouTube and he had it released by Rhino last year.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

You will notice that the taping woman started out with neat shelving -- 
and the problem is when you run out of shelving space.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com