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hardman
Trad climber
the valley
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Feb 20, 2006 - 10:19am PT
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"I had copies of that stuff once but I lost them all in a house fire two years ago. Reardon (and others) have tried to hunt down the originals but those companies have been bought and sold so many times since then, no one can find them in their archives anymore (although they do still evidently exist). "
surely hollywood reardon would know to look for them at getty images
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thedogfather
Trad climber
Midwest
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2006 - 12:20pm PT
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For those that I have commited to sending a DVD:
I have redone the DVD and it is now readable on a computer with a chapter for each of the videos listed below.
1. Henry Barber, Pete Livsey, Al Harris in England with EB's and no cams!!
2. Bachar soloing in Yosemite
3. Bachar Soloing in JT
4. Werner, Johnson and Kauk attempt to free the Nose
5. Part of Kauk and Moffet on Lost Arrow
6. Kauk and an English gal on Old Man of Hoy
7. Kurt Albert and Gullich in Yosemite
Most of the video is not great quality but the commentary on some is often hilarious. The "live" parts get somewhat boring but are still entertaining.
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rradakovits
Sport climber
san diego
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Feb 20, 2006 - 02:06pm PT
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I would love a copy, I'll PM you.
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poop*ghost
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Feb 20, 2006 - 02:39pm PT
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I emailed you too - I wonder if there's some supertaco-er out there who could burn the dvd's for you and make it a little less work?!
I would, but don't have a DVD burner.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Feb 20, 2006 - 02:50pm PT
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I've got a DVD burner.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 20, 2006 - 02:55pm PT
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I'd kick in for one.
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hardman
Trad climber
the valley
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Feb 20, 2006 - 04:10pm PT
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i can do the burning for the people on the east coast
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BrentA
Gym climber
estes park
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Feb 20, 2006 - 07:39pm PT
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Couldn't we just all meet on Bearshare.com?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 20, 2006 - 08:57pm PT
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Bearshare or some kinda shareware- Now there's a concept.
I remembers me eyballin' that Barber footage, solo, hand jams, guys lookin on from the base in awe. Seminal inspiration for me at the time, speshly for teevee. Must'v been 72-74?
Solo, by, what's his name- Mike Hoover? That was more worked, staged & etc., but pretty cool too for a n00b lookin' on and made TV right about the same time.
-Roy
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 20, 2006 - 09:02pm PT
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It's a DVD so that means about at least 2 to 4 gigabytes of data to download.
Now how's dialup people gona do that.
Rapidshare has pretty fast servers now, but you gotta wait an hour between downloads unless you have a paid account.
How fast is Bearshare.com? Is it any good for this idea?
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ryanb
climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 20, 2006 - 09:30pm PT
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Bittorrent is taylor made for distribution of large files from computers with limited bandwidth...essentially a "swarm" of people download from one another minimizing the load on the origional host as well as copyrite issues (since the transfer of information occurs on a private network wile the *.torren file distributed on webpages contains only information on how to join the swarm).
Azureus is probably the best Bittorrent client.
With good compresion figure 200-300 megs/hour as far as size goes. Mplayer/mencoder work okay for compressing video files, don't know about riping dvd's though.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Feb 20, 2006 - 09:39pm PT
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We also worked with Mike Hoover on "The Surival of the Fittest".
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 20, 2006 - 09:56pm PT
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There's some good stuff in "Fittest" as well:
Yabo test driving the downhill run, Kauk pointing to his Kroenhoffers and reporting "Yeah these are the ticket"
-seems everything good for a bunch of us was "the ticket" fer a while after.
Thanks all for helping to get the topical footage of this thread accessible.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Feb 20, 2006 - 10:46pm PT
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yeah T-Buster this thread is the "ticket"
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 20, 2006 - 11:21pm PT
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Why would anybody want to watch this sh_it?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 20, 2006 - 11:25pm PT
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ha ha.
same reason were blabin' about on our keyboards.
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Dusty
Trad climber
up & down highway 99
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Feb 21, 2006 - 07:36am PT
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we should start a porn site too while we're at it
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steelmnkey
climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Feb 21, 2006 - 08:38am PT
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Remember when people were giving Ed a bunch of sh*t about posting 30 year old climbing articles here? And he wasn't even getting money for them...my how things change.
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thedogfather
Trad climber
Midwest
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2006 - 09:19am PT
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I have gotten way too many requests to fill so I have been selective as I implied in the original posting. I am sending out about a dozen to those that were either in the videos, know the participants, are of my generation (OLD), live in Eldorado (my most visited climbing spot) or asked nicely. It takes about 15 minutes a copy so I figure over 3 hours is enough of my time. No fees involved. Watching on a computer instead of a big screen makes the quality appear much better. Would be interested in the recipients thoughts on some of this old stuff. The funniest part is the english translation of the Gullich piece.
If any of the recipients wish to make copies, that is up to them. They can then post again and setup their little cottage business.
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