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Subject: Re: Availability of Sembene films
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:41:13 +0200
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Karin Ruuth-B=E4cker"
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From: Anna Livia
< livia@sirius.com> I own two films by Sembene, on videotape: _Borom
Sarret_, and _Xala_. I bought them from Facets Video Catalogue, who
acquired them from the BFI (British film Institute). They cost about =
$85
each. The only problem with them is that they are in PAL VHS format =
(NOT
compatible with American VHS-though fine for European viewers). I had =
to
organise a special session at my university (Illinois, Champaign) since =
my
usual classroom is not PAL equipped. For me, this was not especially
difficult, just required extra planning, but for scholars not attached =
to
large universities, it might pose quite a problem, or for grad students =
who
don't have faculty privileges. I did email the BFI asking for =
permission to
transfer the tape to American VHS but never heard back. Our language =
lab
cannot legally transfer videos which are under copyright (as the =
Sembene
films are). You can get them transferred in commercial outfits, but it =
costs
about $50 a film and is of doubtful legality.
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I would like to add that a) these two films are well worth the money =
and b)
if anyone has contacts at the BFI, it might be nice to suggest they =
also
produce an American VHS version.
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> Anna Livia livia@sirius.com
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