[game_preservation] Classic game videos

[Captain Commando]

Thanks a lot, Henry! Give him our regards :)

-DM

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


>  Andrew,

>

> I will be seeing Al in a few weeks and will ask him about the video.

>

> Henry

>

>

> At 10:11 AM 4/3/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

> 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

>

> --

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>

> "Until next time..."

> Captain Commando

>

> _______________________________________________

> game_preservation mailing listgame_preservation at igda.org

> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation

>

>

> _______________________________________________

> game_preservation mailing list

> game_preservation at igda.org

>  http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation

>

> Henry Lowood, Ph.D.

> Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;

>  Film & Media Collections

> HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall

> Stanford University Libraries

> Stanford CA 94305-6004

> 650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood<http://www.stanford.edu/%7Elowood>

>

> _______________________________________________

> game_preservation mailing list

> game_preservation at igda.org

> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation

>

>



-- 
The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

"Until next time..."
Captain Commando
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/attachments/20080403/be9f0495/attachment.html>