More Laserdiscs - starring The Beatles!

[ffutures]

Saw these on Gumtree, held off for a couple of weeks since the vendor was in Slough and it's a moderate trek, then realised he had some other stuff that interested me and ended up getting the following - mostly music, all PAL except for the ones marked NTSC

PLFEB 34311 - Hard Day's Night, A (1964)
PLFEB 34301 - Help!: The Beatles (1965)
PLFEA 34321 - The Beatles: You Can't Do That!: Making of A Hard Day's Night (1995)
ML100166 - Compleat Beatles, The (1984) - NTSC
17004 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) - NTSC
PLMCC 01031 - Verdi: Aida: Studer: Royal Opera (1994)
072 148-1 - Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine (1989)

Also
90-0509-5 - The Pied Piper plus Cinderella - two shorts by Cosgrove Hall, a company that made stop-motion animation films for children
BBCV 1016L - Paint! - film about painting techniques

Haven't tried playing them yet but they all appear to be in excellent condition, no signs of rot etc. The last two look like they may be analogue sound only, which means I won't be able to play them, but you can't have anything. There's a local charity shop that will welcome them if it comes to that.

The guy also sold me a VCR/DVD player for £15 - I see interesting tapes dirt cheap occasionally, but haven't had a player for the last few years - which more or less made the trip worthwhile. Annoyingly he'd sold the Rolleiflex SL35 (with two lenses) he was offering for a tenner, or I would have probably made a hefty profit on the trip.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Other than that you already have a collection you wish to enjoy, are there any particular virtues to laserdiscs in the DVD age?

"Larger artwork" is one I already know about.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not really - but I still have some sentimental attachment to them.

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

People want Rolleiflex SL35s? Admittedly I've only seen the later models from the Singapore factory, but they were horrible.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Apparently he had about 20 calls asking for it.