Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:09:15 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Aussiecon video tapes (1975)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Some fannish history now available . . .

mjw

 --- Mark Loney <loney at alphalink.com.au <http://uk.f250.mail.yahoo.com/ym/C=
ompose?To=loney at alphalink.com.au&YY=28970&order=down&sort=date&pos=
=0>> wrote: >
> Aussiecon video tapes (1975)
>
> On behalf of the Australian Science Fiction
> Foundation
> (http://www.vicnet.net.au/~asff/ <http://www.vicnet.net.au/%7Easff/>), I =
am pleased to
> announce that the
> video recordings of program items made at Aussiecon
> in 1975 are being
> transferred to a modern recording format in order to
> make them available
> to modern fandom and to ensure their preservation
> for future fandom.  43
> reel to reel video tapes were made at Aussiecon,
> including 40 thirty
> minute tapes and 3 sixty minute tapes.
>
> The transfer of the tapes from the original 1975
> format also provides an
> opportunity for anyone interested in obtaining their
> own copy of the
> Aussiecon video tapes.  Copies can be provided in
> either VHS or DVD
> formats.  At this stage, indicative pricing for a
> complete set of tapes
> in either format is AUD$250 not including postage.
> The copies should be
> available by the middle of the year.
>
> Requests for copies of individual tapes cannot be accommodated at
this
> time (although it may be feasible to provide copies
> of individual tapes
> once an index of the tapes is created).
>
> If you are interested in obtaining a complete set of
> the Aussiecon video
> tapes, please let me know by the end of April.
> Final pricing
> information should be available by that time and
> confirmation will be
> sought before any orders are placed.
>
> For more information about Aussiecon, the first
> World Science Fiction
> Convention held in Australia, see
> http://fanac.org/worldcon/AussieCon/w75-p00.html.
>
> Anti-Fan Films (1972 & 1980)
>
> On behalf of Victorian Science Fiction Conventions
> (http://www.vsfc.org.au/), I am pleased to announce that copies of
the
> Anti-Fan films, Aussie Fan (1972) and The Anti-Fan
> Strikes Back (1980),
> can now be ordered in either VHS or DVD formats.  At
> this stage,
> indicative pricing for a copy of the films in either
> format is AUD$20
> not including postage.  Copies should be available
> by the middle of the
> year.
>
> If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the
> Anti-Fan films, please
> let me know by the end of April.  Final pricing
> information should be
> available by that time and confirmation will be
> sought before any orders
> are placed.
>
> For more information about the Anti-Fan films, see
> http://www.vsfc.org.au/antifan_films.html
>
> Contact Details
>
> If you are interested in obtaining copies of either
> the Aussiecon videos
> or the Anti-Fan films, please:
>
> A) send an email to antifan at vsfc.org.au <http://uk.f250.mail.yahoo.com/ym=
/Compose?To=antifan at vsfc.org.au&YY=28970&order=down&sort=date&pos=
=0>;
>
> B) write to Aussiecon/Anti-Fan, PO Box 903,
> Belconnen ACT 2616,
> Australia; or
>
> C) send a fax to +61-2-6241-3211.
>
> Mark Loney
> On behalf of ASFF and VSFC
>
> 6 April 2004
>