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How To Find Obscure Documentaries?

dj_netadj_neta 166 Posts
edited November 2005 in Strut Central
This worked the last time I asked you all for help. (Thanks Cool C****). Here's what I'm looking for this time:The Flight of the Dove (US) 1988, dir. Nancy da Silveira. It's a short documentary about the Holy Ghost Festivals in a California Azorean immigrant community (all you San Joaquin Valley strutters know the deal). The only copy I've found of this is through UC educational media.... which means $200 for this 29 minute jawn (or $50 for a one-day rental). Anyone know a slightly cheaper way to get something like this, or a way to get ahold of obscure documentaries in general?Thanks.

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  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    This worked the last time I asked you all for help. (Thanks Cool C****).

    Here's what I'm looking for this time:

    The Flight of the Dove (US) 1988, dir. Nancy da Silveira.
    It's a short documentary about the Holy Ghost Festivals in a California Azorean immigrant community (all you San Joaquin Valley strutters know the deal). The only copy I've found of this is through UC educational media.... which means $200 for this 29 minute jawn (or $50 for a one-day rental).

    Anyone know a slightly cheaper way to get something like this, or a way to get ahold of obscure documentaries in general?

    Thanks.



    please to photoshop neta's or better yet "Hogg's" head onto body plase. thnx.


    Neta:

    you try Le Video off of Irving by the park?
  • edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
    normally i'd say www.5minutestolive.com, but i checked and even they don't have it.

    your best bet in the city is le video like p*****k suggested or lost weekend video in the mission
  • dj_netadj_neta 166 Posts
    please to photoshop neta's or better yet "Hogg's" head onto body plase. thnx.
    Neta:

    you try Le Video off of Irving by the park?

    no, i'll try. good idea, YP.

    you better be careful inciting photoshop nonsense. somebody's bound to post a Queen KingMoist pic up in here.

    love.
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    you better be careful inciting photoshop nonsense. somebody's bound to post a Queen KingMoist pic up in here.



    Wait, that's not him?

  • grandpa_shiggrandpa_shig 5,799 Posts
    this should help.

    http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/40/lede-sidebar.php

    but as a fair warning, most documentaries that dont have corporate distributors carry an outrageous rental price. just something to keep in mind if you plan on going the legal route. it might be better to keep asking around and securing a copy that way.

    in the bay area, i'd ask around at the pfa and film arts foundation as there are many dudes with insane private collections in and around the bay area that belong to these organizations.

  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    you better be careful inciting photoshop nonsense. somebody's bound to post a Queen KingMoist pic up in here.



    Wait, that's not him?






    p.s.

    get a room
  • 99Problems99Problems 1,541 Posts
    This worked the last time I asked you all for help. (Thanks Cool C****).



    Here's what I'm looking for this time:



    The Flight of the Dove (US) 1988, dir. Nancy da Silveira.

    It's a short documentary about the Holy Ghost Festivals in a California Azorean immigrant community (all you San Joaquin Valley strutters know the deal). The only copy I've found of this is through UC educational media.... which means $200 for this 29 minute jawn (or $50 for a one-day rental).



    Anyone know a slightly cheaper way to get something like this, or a way to get ahold of obscure documentaries in general?



    Thanks.






    You may be able to find it in the library of a local Univerisity. If they don't have it there, you could request that they get it and they usually will. They pay wholesale prices on those kinds of things.
  • emyndemynd 830 Posts
    I second the library thing.

    -e
  • grandpa_shiggrandpa_shig 5,799 Posts
    oh, and maybe hit up the IDES social halls in and around the san joaquin valley. i know there's one in hanford, ca and i bet there's one in fresno. theyll prolly have a copy floating around.
  • dj_netadj_neta 166 Posts
    thanks for all these ideas.



    UC Berkeley's Media Resource Center has it. i have access to it there. that's how i learned of it, actually -- digging up sources on Azoreans in California.



    so, yeah, viewing it isn't the problem. i just need to own it. it's silly, but true. i mean, dang, it's from the late 80s so there are priceless shot of big bangs and french braids. oh and "Diamond Girl" by Nice & Wild playing at the portuguese social. god, it's great!



    i'll contact the I.D.E.S. org and some of the other portuguese fraternal crews for help. good idea. somebody's aunt or cousin or greatgrandma has a bootleg, i can feel it.



    i'm also trying to contact the UC ed media sales department to see if they can hook me up with some kind of research discount. long shot.









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