Sooo ...
I got in a bunch of DVDs from Chris Sobeniak, and I must say they're great!
He sent me an NTSC version of the Thames documentary "Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up", and the quality is just great. It shows its age, but it's clearly a professionally made copy. Pleased!
He's sent me a nice quality copy of Williams' A Chrismas Carol, which I've wanted to see for years. Marvelous. Combined with Ziggy's Gift we can have a Dick Williams Christmas.
He also sent me a collection of the amazing European animated commercials done mostly by Williams' studio over the years.
It broke my DVD recorder. =(
He also sent me DivX versions of everything so I was able to view it that way.
Oh, my poor DVD recorder. I wonder if I can fix it. It's a Panasonic and refuses to eject the disc. It just says "99" on the front and that's it.
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Still, there's more happy news, as Chris has sent me scans of a chapter in a book about Canadian animation - the chapter is entirely dedicated to Williams and contains some interesting information I hadn't heard before. It's hard on Williams toward the end, but will make a nice DVD-ROM extra certainly.
Things continue well!