[Cosysops] Re: BBS Documentary Updates (Jason Scott)

[Jason Scott]

Well, OK, maybe I should clarify.

When I speak of holes, I speak of basic structural issues in the episodes
as currently planned. Where I consider it a failure if those subjects are
not covered in some way in the documentary.

Coconet is important, especially to yourself being the founder and lead
maintainer of the code, but its absence will not cause too many people to
ask me pointed questions as to why I "avoided" the subject.

What I'm a little confused by, and realize how many people I've been
talking to and what I've been up to, is how I've not interviewed you for
the documentary about PLATO. I would have liked your input on that event
very much and I'm afraid it's going to become narration and 4-5 scrolling
photographs with you. I was through San Diego... I just don't get it.

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Brian Dear wrote:

> Well, there's the Coconut interview footage hole as well.
>
> Coconut's COCONET was an important and radical development in the BBS
> world, and shook things up quite a bit when it rolled out in the late 80s
> and especially when it got reviewed by Jack Rickard in Boardwatch in
> '89.  Within a few years everybody and their brother was trying to copy
> COCONET's graphics capabilities with "RIP".
>
> - Brian
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> >Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:31:13 -0500 (EST)
> >From: Jason Scott <jason@textfiles.com>
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> >Subject: [Cosysops] BBS Documentary Updates
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> >Under the "well, um, I guess that's news" department, I've decided against
> >going with Dolby Surround 5:1. While the concept was kind of nice, the
> >implementation would be a lot of wasted disc space for little benefit,
> >considering the subject matter. Most of you probably didn't even think I'd
> >consider it.
> >
> >A lot of this centers around ideas I'd gotten over the times of watching
> >other documentaries, and considering what I'd want to know or see versus
> >what was in the documentary itself. I thought it might be neat to be able
> >to have JUST the voices talking on one track, that is, strip out the music
> >and other sounds and just have the voices, should you want to hear that.
> >It's pretty trivial to do so with Vegas Video (just shut off the tracks
> >with music and sound effects) and if I think it works, I'll consider it.
> >
> >I intend to have a director's commentary track, and recently I got the
> >weird idea to maybe get Ward Christensen or a few other figures from BBS
> >history to comment watching the film. I don't know how realistic that is,
> >but it might be neat to hear him talk about stuff as it goes by.
> >
> >After some delay, I'm about to start planning my big last major trip,
> >Chicago to Houston, with stops all over the place along the way. I hope to
> >do it in January. The wife's cancer-removal operation and now her chemo
> >have kept me close by, and now that things are returning to normal, I can
> >think about a trip or two. Some of the big names (Rickard, Hayes) have
> >become hard to find in the last year, but I knew they'd get separate trips
> >anyway.
> >
> >What else. (as you can see, I'm writing this a bit late in the day)
> >
> >Right now, there are two major "holes" in interview and other footage, to
> >my detriment: the Steve Jackson Games fiasco and Randy Suess. The hole
> >with Randy will never be patched; he simply refuses to be a part of the
> >production, and there's not much I can do about it. The lack of footage
> >about Steve Jackson Games (and therefore the EFF, and therefore the whole
> >intercorrelation of governmental interference of BBSes) is because I
> >haven't interviewed anyone with direct experience of it (with the
> >exception of Wayne Bell, who didn't have much to say about it at all).
> >There's probably other holes, but I don't notice them... yet.
> >
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