At 16.06 12/10/00 +0930, DOUGGEN wrote:
>Raimondo
>
>> but I did not take any note of it (sorry!).
>
>You should have spent less time pretending to shoot at helicopters and
>more time rubber necking! :-)
YES! Of course you are right! But it was my only opportunity to "shoot" at
helicopters with a collector's "Polsten" 20 mm. AA gun!!!
>
>> I have obtained a video (177 min) from Skoob, books@skoob.clara.net, fax
>> no. 0044 20 74044398 (info obtained from Jim Webster of Simonides).
>
>Any good?
Well, I am not very much satisfied... it is a bit fragmentary and with
gaps. For example, it starts showing a tank being prepared for loading on a
low boy trailer but it is fragmentary: some shots of the tank and some
shots of something else not related to the tank and again some shots of the
tank and then some shots of something not related to the tank loading and
it goes like this for quite a while up to the final loading of the tank and
the tractor-trailer leaving for Beltring...
There are shots (too long in my opinion!) of the ball in the Officer's
Mess, I have preferrred shots of the vendors... or, better!, of their
merchandise such as the 75 mm. paradropable gun or the U.S. Rock Island 105
(or it was a 155? sorry!) cannon for sale, former Norwegian one overhauled
by the Konigsberg Arsenal.
There are many shots, quite long shots, of the Saving Private Ryan Battle
in the Main Arena taken in different days... There is no comment and if you
have not been there you do not understand, just watch U.S., German and
British soldiers shooting...
Also interviews with foreign collectors and their H.M.V. The marvelous
(Geoff, this is for you!!) Otter is showed together with his owner/restorer
but no shots of the inside or roundabout shots... Well, I understand that
this is a very specialistic opinion from a H.M.V. aficionado/enthousiast
like me, but I strongly hope that next year video may be better... It was
advertised very well in many stalls (BTW, I do not know/remember if this
one is the same that was advertised!!). I still have received no messages
concerning how many videos (one or two???) have been done...
I remember, I took a flyer but back in Naples I have not found it, perhaps
it is in some of the many books I did buy... I have not found it in my
notes, info, addresses, flyers, etc. I took a lot of them... Sorry, I
hope Nige may help: last year he did post to the List info on the Duke
Video (I did buy it), but this year he did not, well not yet! (I hope!).
Nige, where are you?
I have the Beltring videos for: 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. I do not
know if there are videos for 1997 and 1998.
Regards and
Keep Them Rolling!
Raimondo - MVPA 15878 & IMPS 2320
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