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

[Don Chichester]

I've known Phil Gries for several years.  Je has dubs of some of the programs I taped.  He's now a member of ARSC>
 
Don Chichester
 

> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 01:43:49 -0400
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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