[Fmpro] Dumpster diving

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Jim, a good friend of mine used to "borrow aka rescue" film score masters 
from a major Hollywood studio storage facility. He did this out of an 
insider's awareness of a looming corporate agenda: eventually the studio in 
question literally threw out as garbage hundreds of film master materials, 
including untold numbers of scores, scores which now reside in a landfill 
somewhere in California. There have been retro-soundtrack CD releases during 
the past 10 years or so, '60s works, that would have been impossible if not 
for his guerilla acts of preservation. We both weep in our hearts whenever 
he talks of the titles he saw in storage that he never had a chance to 
salvage. Again, a true story. / Please don't ask me what I did with the STAR 
TREK reels. - JohnB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Chase" <jchase at billyhalemusic.com>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Dumpster diving


>" ...came away with a complete episode of the original STAR TREK on
> 35mm film reels. True story, I swear."
>  - JohnB
>
> Hang onto that one!  Dumpster diving has its benefits!
>
> Back in the eighties, I earned my first IBM computer diving into a
> [insert name here] dumpster, where I found 35 cases of diskettes,
> three pallet jacks, and twenty VT 102 terminals, worth several
> thousand (1988) dollars.  I made a deal with the warehouseman, where
> he would just leave the discard on a pallet outside on the loading
> dock for me to pick up at night.  I had to rent a storage shed for
> all the stuff [inset name here] threw away.  I was making almost as
> much working for [insert name here] as I did pulling things out of
> their dumpster!
>
> Jim Chase
>
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