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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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PM sent to Sonic.
You are on the verge of making my Holidays : )
thanks,
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Does anyone know why this film isn't available for purchase? Seems like a lot of climbers would buy it.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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hey Sonic you ever get my PM?
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michaelj
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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I spent an afternoon with Fred recently. The remastered DVD looks about 100% better than the VHS version. He's putting the finishing touches on it before releasing it. He's also putting together some bonus footage about what some of the climbers have been up to recently, although a couple, notably Glen, declined to take part. The full story about how the movie got made is really fascinating.
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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that's great! any idea on how long? months? years away?
thanks
scott
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bookie
climber
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Mike from Chessler Books
We sold the El Capitan film on VHS for 20 years, hundreds it seems. Then when the world converted to DVD Fred Padula stopped selling it, and said at the time (10+ years ago) that he was working on converting it to DVD. There was a comment above that he was re-doing it for higher quality, which is what we heard too.
But it never happened. I phoned him many times and left messages, but he never responded. For some reason he either lost interest, or perhaps felt it would not sell well enough to be worth the cost of production, but I think costs on making DVDs have fallen so low that can't be a valid reason anymore.
In the real world only three types of film can make money: Hollywood films, children's films, and porn. Most documentaries end up losing money, no matter how good they are. Everest on Imax and a few other climbing films have sold well.
El Capitan does show up at film festivals on 16mm, it was shown at the Taos Mt Film festival a few years ago.
There are many great climbing films that should be re-released: Rebuffat's three films, West Face of Sentinel Rock, and the Nameless Tower with Destivelle, Lowe and Bridwell mentioned above. Leo Dickinson has a new bio film of Don Whillans he won't sell in America because some previous distributors ripped him off.
You can buy an all region DVD player from Amazon for under $100, and then buy and play many European films that will never be released in the USA. I heard that Destivelle and Edlinger made dozens of films for French TV that we have never seen.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Feb 12, 2012 - 04:06pm PT
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Riley, you mentioned up thread about buying a copy of the disk? Somehow I think that would be a copyright violation...don't know if I GAVE one to you if it would pass the legalities? Look into it and let me know, I would guess written permission from the owners of the film would circumvent that.
Peace
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Feb 12, 2012 - 05:22pm PT
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I 2nd the interest in that DVD release date projection
WooHoo!!!
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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Feb 12, 2012 - 06:50pm PT
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Hey midzone, thanks for the heads up! I just got tix and will be going! hopefully we can buy the film again sometime soon.
scott
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 12, 2012 - 07:22pm PT
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An absolute classic! Wish I could see it again.
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Geeman
Social climber
Denver,Colorado
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Aug 31, 2012 - 04:25am PT
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Hey guys I happened to come across a vhs copy of this rare hard to find film and will be listing it on Ebay on the late afternoon of August 31,2012.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Aug 31, 2012 - 06:56am PT
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"It's coming back up!"
I use that line all the time.
"We have to go back!" - Lito Tejada-Flores (joking around while finishing the Great Roof pitch)
I use that line all the time; and I never joke.
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Aug 31, 2012 - 07:36am PT
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Pam here. We used to show that film practically every other month when I worked at Neptune's (for 9 years!)....I have seen it so many times, and could watch it a million more. All those lines you guys have quoted take me back.......indeed, it's sooo great, funny, inspiring, beautiful. Why, like climbing can be!
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Allen Hill
Social climber
CO.
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Aug 31, 2012 - 08:23am PT
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I honestly think it's the best American climbing film ever made. The crap that's rolled out theses days (Sender Films comes to mind) has no heart and soul, just commercial value via product placement. Conversely "El Capitan" is nothing but heart and soul. Optical printed moon and all. Absolute art.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 31, 2012 - 10:00am PT
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Great film with a lot of soul. Lito lives a half mile from us in Chilean Patagonia. He doesn't climb anymore but his stories complimenting the gourmet meals his wife Linde provides are memorable.
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wpadula
Social climber
San Francisco
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This classic film has been restored in HD from the original film positive and it is being released on DVD and BluRay!! You can get a copy if you search for El Capitan FIlm on Kickstarter.com
This new release looks and sounds better than the film has ever looked before. It is also going to include audio commentary with the original climbers and also some short videos with them.
Here is a link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1765735821/el-capitan-film-restoration?ref=live
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wpadula
Social climber
San Francisco
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Here is a note from the filmmaker:
EL CAPITAN, the classic 1968 movie is on Kickstarter
Google: Kickstarter, El Capitan
With the money that I hope to raise from Kickstarter contributors, I will be able to complete the El Capitan film restoration, and finish preparing the new HD digital master.
After being out of distribution for over 10 years, with your help, the classic film, El Capitan, will finally be available again, restored in HD and looking better than ever.
If you would be inclined to pass this information on to your friends by way of Twitter and Facebook, it would really help.
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Fred Padula
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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A nicer person would have just put the old version on youtube for free.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Afternoon bump.
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Let us know!