Cost / accessibility of older ski movies

nez

nez

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Was reading a thread earlier about some awesome old ski movies, which made me remember how awesome the old Stept movies were and is what made me love skiing in the first place. Do you think there is potential that they would release them for free after all these years? I get that they have to make money on what they do, but i really don't know if anyone who is paying $10 for these after 10+ years (Would love to know if people still are). I definitely remember buying some DVD's back in the day (Mutiny, partly cloudy, Hood Crew etc) but have no idea where they have ended up.

I'll probably just end up buying it anyway, but would love to know other people's thoughts on whether these things should be more accessible after these years, and not cost more than a few dollars.
 
topic:nez said:
Was reading a thread earlier about some awesome old ski movies, which made me remember how awesome the old Stept movies were and is what made me love skiing in the first place. Do you think there is potential that they would release them for free after all these years? I get that they have to make money on what they do, but i really don't know if anyone who is paying $10 for these after 10+ years (Would love to know if people still are). I definitely remember buying some DVD's back in the day (Mutiny, partly cloudy, Hood Crew etc) but have no idea where they have ended up.

I'll probably just end up buying it anyway, but would love to know other people's thoughts on whether these things should be more accessible after these years, and not cost more than a few dollars.
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From what I vaguely understand big production movies haven't changed in price much/not all due to music rights meaning they can't just let them be streamed for free, and if they wanted them on a digital platform they'd have to re-write all the agreements on the music, which is never realistically gonna happen for how much money they'd pull in.

Even from a preservation point of view, it's not difficult to see a future when some of the more niche old movies are difficult/impossible to watch. Really wish there was some sort of archival process for the thousands of movies out there, so they don't all get lost to time.
 
we need a channel like lost snowboard movies, eric has done a pretty good job though putting up a ton of vids on the inspired channel
 
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From what I vaguely understand big production movies haven't changed in price much/not all due to music rights meaning they can't just let them be streamed for free, and if they wanted them on a digital platform they'd have to re-write all the agreements on the music, which is never realistically gonna happen for how much money they'd pull in.

Even from a preservation point of view, it's not difficult to see a future when some of the more niche old movies are difficult/impossible to watch. Really wish there was some sort of archival process for the thousands of movies out there, so they don't all get lost to time.
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Ah that makes sense, didn't even think about that!
 
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we need a channel like lost snowboard movies, eric has done a pretty good job though putting up a ton of vids on the inspired channel
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Yeah i just looked at that, it looks like a really awesome idea, I wonder if there is potential for anyone in the ski industry to do something similar?
 
You can find a bunch of old content but you just have to look around for it.

Stept has a ton of old content on their Archive Channel:

[video]https://vimeo.com/skithrowbackaccount[/video]

Other than that Youtube has some classics that are full movies:

Propaganda (2001)
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The Game (2000)


Matchstick productions has an archive page as well:
https://matchstickpro.com/category/the-vault/

(Their old movies are so much better than the sanitized cookie cutter films they put out today)
 
I bought TGR Mind The Addiction on itunes since it was the first ski movie I watched back in the day on vhs, then I realized they swapped the entire soundtrack for the online re-release. So wack.
 
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