[game_preservation] Classic game videos

[Andrew Armstrong]

I've not heard of either myself. I suspected for the second might be in 
some kind of Library of Congress collection, but there seems to be no 
good video search related to them. I'm unfamiliar with American websites 
and institutes that might store it - is there one which archives 
newsreels in New York for instance?

For the first, it might be easiest to contact Al Alcorn or Ed Logg and 
get a copy on the Internet Archive. Sounds interesting, I'd like to 
watch it :) Since Al Alcorn was at GDC, no doubt someone on this list 
has some way of contacting him if we can't source it from elsewhere.

Andrew

Captain Commando wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> I've been reading through Steve Kent's book and found a few 

> interesting references to classic videos. The first I'd like to 

> mention is the Atari engineers' video "Outstanding in Our Field". Now 

> apparently Al Alcorn and Ed Logg still have a copy of this video, but 

> I wanted to know if we have a copy of this video somewhere. It seems 

> ideal for us to preserve something like this.

>

> http://arcade.thelittons.net/2002Extreme/

>

> And heck, if the Learning Channel can get it, why can't we?

>

> http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2003/04/16/sometimes_tv_really_sucks.html#000318

>

> The second is newsreel footage of Fierello LaGuardia, New York's mayor 

> in the 1930s, destroying pinball machines during the start of the ban. 

> Apparently, these newsreels were shown in theaters around the country, 

> so I assume copies still exist somewhere. Why do we need footage of 

> pinball machines being destroyed? Well, on the one hand, it's 

> interesting but on the other we can also learn a bit from it.

>

> -DM

>

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