[Phogge]

BC, here's an example. I own extensive footage from the giants 1968-1974. My father and I made seven long form commercials for the team. Plenty of high speed stuff, music, etc. The prevailing opinion is that the Giants own distribution rights to the productions, not the actual material. I cannot, w/o approval, legally use that footage in a production. I can however sell the original. Seven years ago MLB came to me and expressed interest in buying the library. They never made an offer and I never gave them a value. Since then the bottom has fallen out of the market.

Stanford signed over all rights to our recruiting footage in 1983. They have given footage from the 16mm prints to various entities and I see my stuff on the air at times. I know that the department cleaned out a closet of old prints some years ago afraid of any nitrate material. I think it's possible that the release prints from our films were among the historical footage shitcanned. God knows if footage of Pop Warner et al was included.

The Stanford material in my vault is there with Movietone newsreels, our commercial and industrial productions, baseball footage and other works of our family's 110 year career in pictures. There it will sit, no pay, no play.

[Phogge]

BC, here's an example. I own extensive footage from the giants 1968-1974. My father and I made seven long form commercials for the team. Plenty of high speed stuff, music, etc. The prevailing opinion is that the Giants own distribution rights to the productions, not the actual material. I cannot, w/o approval, legally use that footage in a production. I can however sell the original. Seven years ago MLB came to me and expressed interest in buying the library. They never made an offer and I never gave them a value. Since then the bottom has fallen out of the market.

Stanford signed over all rights to our recruiting footage in 1983. They have given footage from the 16mm prints to various entities and I see my stuff on the air at times. I know that the department cleaned out a closet of old prints some years ago afraid of any nitrate material. I think it's possible that the release prints from our films were among the historical footage shitcanned. God knows if footage of Pop Warner et al was included.

The Stanford material in my vault is there with Movietone newsreels, our commercial and industrial productions, baseball footage and other works of our family's 110 year career in pictures. There it will sit, no pay, no play.