i've been buying tapes at cons and recording stuff off TV for years. this thread really intrigues me, but more from the list aspect than the actual collecting of materials aspect. the list project is something I've thought would be a good idea for a very long time, and even spent a morning last september trying to play with my very shitty web skills to put something simple together on verizon's webservers. it did not go well.
anyway, i would really love to help out with any effort to compile a list of all the SW-related documentaries, specials, major TV appearances, and such...basically all non-movie SW video, although it could also encompass fan edits and fan editions (all the great LD rips for example).
none, I think your list is indeed a great start! i would agree that it should be organized by date. eventually it could be a searchable webpage so info would be easy to access, but for now I think date would be important for the sake of having some kind of hard barometer to organize the list. i think by "date" i also mean specific release date, so for example, all the LD rips would actually get indexed in 2004 or 2005 or whenever they came out, NOT with the film in 1977. I think this is also more true to the spirit of the releases...they're versions of the films for modern fans who want the originals, and not contemporary releases to the original films.
i think your categories are also quite good too...although again, organizing by date kinda helps you to avoid having to come up with such distinctions, which are admittedly difficult.
there are some lines that do need to be drawn perhaps as the project goes forward, but if we just collect all the info for now, it's easy enough to present it and fans who want to filter out fan-made docs, or animated series, or whatever can do so on their own.
the most important distinction i think we need to make is between the OT.com/myspleen releases and the actual material on them. for example, something like the original Making of Star Wars as told by C3P0 and R2D2 is by itself important, but it's on several releases. I think we need to catalog the material and NOT the releases. Info on the releases could be part of the catalog--say, a list of which releases that special appears on--but the catalog itself would index the material and not the discs themselves.
i'd actually also love to see more info somehow in the listing...for example:
Title
Original airdate & network
Length
Info/summary
Releases available on
this doesn't necessarily work for the format you have, none, but it could be adapted into a webpage where each year has just a listing you scroll down. eventually we could reach a point where every title has its own page, but for now, i think the list makes the most sense.
If this is stuff everyone thinks is cool, I say we start on the ANH-era stuff, basically 1977-1980, and get our list going. I'd be happy to act as the conduit/compiler of all the info and to write as much of it as I can, but I don't want to step on anyone's toes if this is something someone else would rather do. If so, I'll just work on getting entries together and sending them along.
i'll use the info in this thread and bum around online today to see if I can't get a few sample entries up in this thread to get us started. thanks again for, um, i guess for just existing!