Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete

Wow. Just re-read this and spellcheck won that battle big time. Here is a corrected version:

Sunship game should be on YouTube and iTunes! DVDs are so 90's. Who's making the decision to only offer DVDs. In 2 years DVD players will no longer exist. Please reconsider the current strategy or the movie will fade out of view and never be available to YOUNGER generations who today look at DVD players the same way we look at 8 track tape.

- end of rant

Jaun - I own two copies of the DVD! iTunes honors creative rights in the same way as DVD licensing. How is it different? I would think the marketing reach of iTunes would help sales a great deal!

Sunship game is one of my favorite movies. I will just make a copy to watch on my iPhone.

Sean

On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 9:22:22 PM UTC-4, Sean Fidler wrote:
Wow. Just re-read this and spellcheck won that battle big time. Here is a corrected version:

Sunship game should be on YouTube and iTunes! DVDs are so 90's. Who's making the decision to only offer DVDs. In 2 years DVD players will no longer exist. Please reconsider the current strategy or the movie will fade out of view and never be available to YOUNGER generations who today look at DVD players the same way we look at 8 track tape.

- end of rant

Jaun - I own two copies of the DVD! iTunes honors creative rights in the same way as DVD licensing. How is it different? I would think the marketing reach of iTunes would help sales a great deal!

Sunship game is one of my favorite movies. I will just make a copy to watch on my iPhone.

Sean

Sean, I was addressing the idea of putting the film on YouTube for free viewing. The day that films are only on iTunes will be a problem for filmmakers, who receive very little revenue from iTunes or Netflix. Same as is happening in music with the disappearance of CDs.

Juan

On Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 7:02:20 AM UTC+3, Juanman wrote:
Sean, I was addressing the idea of putting the film on YouTube for free viewing. The day that films are only on iTunes will be a problem for filmmakers, who receive very little revenue from iTunes or Netflix. Same as is happening in music with the disappearance of CDs.

I don't know about Netflix, but film owners receive 70% of the sale price on iTunes, the same as musicians or iPhone App writers.

That's a ten times higher percentage of the retail price than you ever got from selling a physical DVD in a store, with a long distribution chain.

Even selling physical DVDs yourself from home by mail (internet) order, your margins probably aren't near 70%, as you have to pay to make the DVD and case and for shipping.

How many more copies of 'Sunship Game' does the owner expect to sell? And how long will he have to wait to sell those copies? I'd expect that most people who would pay cash to view this documentary have already bought it.

What would it cost to buy the rights to "Sunship Game" and make it freely available?

Is it better to sell relatively few copies of Sunship Game, or have it viewed by potentially larger numbers of people?

If the Bee Gees sound track is the distribution problem, then maybe it could be overdubbed.

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On Sunday, 21 June 2015 02:22:22 UTC+1, Sean Fidler wrote:
Wow. Just re-read this and spellcheck won that battle big time. Here is a corrected version:

Sunship game should be on YouTube and iTunes! DVDs are so 90's. Who's making the decision to only offer DVDs. In 2 years DVD players will no longer exist. Please reconsider the current strategy or the movie will fade out of view and never be available to YOUNGER generations who today look at DVD players the same way we look at 8 track tape.

- end of rant

Jaun - I own two copies of the DVD! iTunes honors creative rights in the same way as DVD licensing. How is it different? I would think the marketing reach of iTunes would help sales a great deal!

Sunship game is one of my favorite movies. I will just make a copy to watch on my iPhone.

Sean

I'd love to get a hold of this DVD but I'm not in the US and £40 is a bit steep for me. I'd happily pay to view it on iTunes or YouTube. Does anyone know if this is available outside the US or electronically anywhere? I don't even own a DVD player TBH.

On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 02:21:01 -0800, Dan S wrote:

On Sunday, 21 June 2015 02:22:22 UTC+1, Sean Fidler wrote:
Wow. Just re-read this and spellcheck won that battle big time. Here
is a corrected version:

Sunship game should be on YouTube and iTunes! DVDs are so 90's. Who's
making the decision to only offer DVDs. In 2 years DVD players will no
longer exist. Please reconsider the current strategy or the movie will
fade out of view and never be available to YOUNGER generations who
today look at DVD players the same way we look at 8 track tape.

- end of rant

Jaun - I own two copies of the DVD! iTunes honors creative rights in
the same way as DVD licensing. How is it different? I would think the
marketing reach of iTunes would help sales a great deal!

Sunship game is one of my favorite movies. I will just make a copy to
watch on my iPhone.

Sean

I'd love to get a hold of this DVD but I'm not in the US and £40 is a
bit steep for me. I'd happily pay to view it on iTunes or YouTube. Does
anyone know if this is available outside the US or electronically
anywhere? I don't even own a DVD player TBH.

There is or was an AVI copy somewhere on the 'net but its got two serious
defects: its low resolution (about 512x450) and blurry even at that size.
Watch it full screen and it doesn't get any better, just bigger. I think
its a transcription from film made with a domestic quality digitiser.
I've seen better quality videos made by converting 8mm home movies.

Just bite the bullet and buy the DVD. After all it is the only
professionally made cinema verite film about a soaring competition.


--
Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

On Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:07:45 AM UTC-5, Guy Byars wrote:
Many of us remember major events of the summer of 1969: Haight-
Ashbury, Manson, Woodstock, Apollo-Moon, Chappaquiddick. But a lot
was also going on that summer in a small town in southern Texas...
Marfa!

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 US Soaring Nationals
in Marfa TX, I have put the entire movie "The Sun Ship Game" on
youtube.

Some notes about the movie on youtube:

To get under the 10 minute limit, the movie is broken into 8
parts.

The original movie had numerous musical tracks from the BeeGees. I
had to mute/remove these for youtube. Youtube has a very clever music
scanner that flagged them as copyright violations. So you will
experience silence instead of the BeeGee tracks. No major loss.

In some places, the audio and video get out of sync by a second or
so. But since most of the dialog is in the form of voiceovers, this
is not a serious problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSj_POL6u0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpksxkyOTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQU4OqqVxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eenw-cueqio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae14HGvxSgc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzMYIcrTMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCT5-lyw8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJmNSdA1u4

I have uploaded, and watched, lots of YouTube (home) movies longer than 10 minutes. Hmmmmm.

I clicked on the first link, got to Youtube with a black screen, and the
message, "This video is unavailable.

On 3/2/2018 6:32 AM, OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
On Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:07:45 AM UTC-5, Guy Byars wrote:
Many of us remember major events of the summer of 1969: Haight-
Ashbury, Manson, Woodstock, Apollo-Moon, Chappaquiddick. But a lot
was also going on that summer in a small town in southern Texas...
Marfa!

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 US Soaring Nationals
in Marfa TX, I have put the entire movie "The Sun Ship Game" on
youtube.

Some notes about the movie on youtube:

To get under the 10 minute limit, the movie is broken into 8
parts.

The original movie had numerous musical tracks from the BeeGees. I
had to mute/remove these for youtube. Youtube has a very clever music
scanner that flagged them as copyright violations. So you will
experience silence instead of the BeeGee tracks. No major loss.

In some places, the audio and video get out of sync by a second or
so. But since most of the dialog is in the form of voiceovers, this
is not a serious problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSj_POL6u0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpksxkyOTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQU4OqqVxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eenw-cueqio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae14HGvxSgc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzMYIcrTMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCT5-lyw8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJmNSdA1u4
I have uploaded, and watched, lots of YouTube (home) movies longer than 10 minutes. Hmmmmm.

--
Dan, 5J

I bit the bullet and ordered a copy from Amazon this week. It sounds like this is a must-see for aspiring glider pilots.

Paul Agnew
Jupiter, FL
ASW-19