Re: GG:Glenn chat/Sony

["K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>]

    Then there's Sony's unforgiveably butchered GG video series. Why
    could the TV footage not be released integrally (as was the case for
    the 3 Monsaingeon videos)? 

You'd prefer it that way, I'd prefer it that way, we all would.
But Sony apparently didn't think there was a market to release the video
footage intact (which would be a lot more than a mere 17 hours!).

Supposedly one can get copies from the NLC, but my queries in that
regard have gone unanswered.

    What hugger-mugger principles governed
    the decision to group the videos thematically? And where are those
    "themes" anyway- certainly not in (most of) the footage? How could
    Sony have led the wonderful Bruno Monsaingeon to participate in this
    unappetizing slice-and-dice entreprise?

I thought Bruno M. more or less single-handedly did the editing/grouping,
although I'm not sure where I got that impression.  I think in one of
the booklets along with the videos, maybe the first one. 

As for why, you'd have to ask him, but from that same vaguely-recalled
source, I seem to remember that he thought the video footage was in
danger of being lost, and so perhaps any release at all seemed better
than nothing to him.