NEW! Online Reprint Series for Japanese Cinema

[David Blair]

Since you did think of it, I won't feel too guilty talking more about it.

My sense is that a dvd presentation and a website presentation don't have 
to conflict at all, in fact they would complement each other.

It is difficult to well present the sort of documentary materials you have 
added to the site on a dvd. On a website [or in plain multimedia] it is 
easy to link from the text to appropriate section of the movie, and to have 
a way to have changing links out of a progressing video section. This 
latter is a tough thing to do in dvd authoring [if not, I want to 
know!].... and the only title I've seen to do it is the excellent Melies 
dvd from Arte Video [but I am sure the list knows others], and then only in 
a limited fashion.

Ok. this is all a lot of work isn't it though, so I won't go on.

best,
David

At 07:20 AM 12/13/2004 +0900, you wrote:
>I was going to do this. Actually the film is perfectly suited for this, as 
>it's organized into reel-length chunks--a nice structure for today's 
>bandwidth because you could make coherent 10 minute quicktimes with a 
>single theme.
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>However, there are movements afoot to do a high-quality DVD of the film, 
>and I didn't want to interfere with that. If the DVD doesn't pan out, I 
>can always add it later, right? That's the beauty of the thing....
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>Markus
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>On Dec 13, 2004, at 2:09 AM, David Blair wrote:
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>>Mark,
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>>since this was a list topic not long ago,  I am sure you have thought 
>>about.... but I thought I would mention:
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>>since you've generously put up production materials relating to the 
>>Hiroshima/Nagasaki film,
>>perhaps at a future date it might be useful to place the film itself on 
>>the site....
>>ie the full 3 hour [?] version, which is in the public domain.
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>>best,
>>David Blair
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