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anyone else been watching the documentary on bbc2 now?

can't wait for next year's now, will be after my graduation so will be going all out with a big group of mates hopefully.

Is it that film they made?

yeah i think so, seems a bit strange showing it just after its been released on dvd but i suppose its inkeeping with the hippie shit

Boo I wouldnt mind watching that.

Darn you employment!

I want to see more security footage

Probably because it's made with our dosh

At first I thought you meant the Nic Roeg documentary of the first Glastonbury...which is mighty fine, I was there... about as hippy dippy as you can get.

Are you seen on camera Reg?

You should write a book.

bollocks i forgot to watch it. was going to see it at the phoenix but never got round to it

?

labor commissioned a glasto film using taxpayers money?

I think I'll go to WOMAD next year (missed tickets for this one)

 No...but I am in Tommy, the Ken Russell Who vehicle.

It's spelt Labour.

If it's made by the BBC, then it's a public broadcast and so it must be made available publicly to the public that pay for it through license fees. At least that's how I see it.

it wasn't a bbc production, but indepedent. got a very limited release i believe.

the beeb are probably showing it as there's no glasto this year

sorry grammar watch.

i think its made by 20th century fox

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000FDEVSO/202-9619937-9539802?v=glance&n=283926

that's gash i think, imdb lists the production companies as

    * HanWay Films
    * Newhouse Nitrate

the dvd is probably produced by 20th century fox

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20060715/20060715_2230_4224_32362_135

Says it's a BBC film. I'm confused now.

Sorry OF, but I hate the pesky Yank spellings!

aah your right, 20thC are most probably the distributor, thats where all the money is these days in dvds

Swallowed the concise Oxford English recently SiPie?

I'm going to fucked trying to spell centre when I come back home, as I live in Centerville. Ho hum.

ok, i think this is something that none of us are going to find a conclusive answer to  :D

the bbc made it, but 20thC have bought distribution rights so they can sell it under their name and make a shitloat without having to put in the hard work

aye, my guess would be that the bbc part-funded it, the companies i mentioned also invested and then it was independently distributed in cinemas. the beeb got the rights to show it before it's dvd release whilst 20th century fox did the dvd production and pathé are distributing it.

strange though, i'd have thought that the beeb would have produced and distributed the dvd themselves

Thinking about it, BBC would have the rights to some of the footage (of performances) so I'm guessing that's they're part in the film

true, the film is a mix of amateur footage and bbc footage

what a muddle.

ironic that a film about glasto has so many big comapnies tied up in it

that's the way of the world!

Anyone else glad that FilmFour is going to be on freeview soon?  8)


Also, I never knew that all dvd players are multi-region, you just need a code.  I wouldn't have bought two copies of Y tu mama tambien if I had known, but at least I got Barton Fink working.

As for Glastonbury, the only time I went  I ended up smoking pipes watching the main stage from a hill(not very sucessful trip).  The only job I've done there was for greenpeace, and it's not quite the same being there before and after :|   I could have smuggled enough drugs in for everybody though  :doobie:

since the broadcasting act of 1990- as part of the BBCs remit, 25% of their output must be independantly produced.

therefore, BBC didnt produce it, rather HanWay and Nitrate did but it's still under the brolly of the Beeb.
distribution rights are a totally different matter as a film, as usual C20thfox have got em.