[Publib] Travel DVDs

[Amanda Brewer]

I puchase DVDs for our branch, so I know there's quite a bit out of options out there. Our patrons really enjoy the Rick Steve series and the Discoveries America series. Both of these titles can be purchased through MidWest Tapes (our AV vendor).
   
  As for performance rights, our library uses Movie Licensing USA (www.movlic.com) but I'm not sure they include travel videos among their selections. Once you find the movie(s) you want to show, you could call the production company and ask for permission to show or to inquire about any performance rights fees. 
   
  Good luck!
   
  -Amanda Brewer

"Jennie J. Stoltz" <jstoltz at pewaukee.lib.wi.us> wrote:
  I loved the Michael Palin "around the world" shows - fabulous! Also, I've only seen a couple but I like Anthony Bourdain also very much. Good recommendations!

Jennie J. Stoltz
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert L. Balliot" 
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:31 pm
Subject: RE: [Publib] Travel DVDs
To: 'Cynthia Rosser' , 'Celeste Fong' , publib at webjunction.org


> This is a nice three disc series by the BBC that combines the
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> wit of Monty Python's Michael Palin, with the adventurous
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> scope of Jules Verne's classic:
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> Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
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> I think that he eats cobra in one of the locals, everyone does it.
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> I also enjoyed Anthony Bourdain's No Reservation series. 
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> He may be too hip for Waco, though. :-)
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> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of Cynthia Rosser
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:02 PM
> To: Celeste Fong; publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Publib] Travel DVDs
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> I don't recommend the any of the Globe Trotter travel series. These feature
> hip young folks apparently going around the globe in search of cheap
> recreational drugs. I've seen two, the one for India where the
> narrator/traveler smokes marijuana, and one for Argentina where the
> narrator/traveler partakes of cocaine with the locals...explaining that
> while it is illegal, everyone does it.
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> Cindy Rosser
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> Reference Librarian 
> Waco-McLennan County Library 
> 1717 Austin Avenue 
> Waco, TX 76701 
> 254-750-5957 
> cynthiar at ci.waco.tx.us 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Celeste Fong
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:35 PM
> To: publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Publib] Travel DVDs
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> Our Library is interested in showing some travel DVDs this summer as 
> a part
> of our adult summer reading program. Do you have suggestions for 
> titles of
> quality travel DVDs? I found that Amazon lists ones getting good user
> reviews from the Discovery Channel that are a part of the "Passport to.."
> series with Samantha Brown. Have you viewed any DVDs from this 
> series? I'd
> be interested if they have public performance rights as well.
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> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
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> Celeste
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> Celeste M Fong
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> Principal Librarian
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> Upland Public Library
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> 450 N. Euclid Ave
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> Upland, CA 91786
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> Phone: 909-931-4202
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> Fax: 909-931-4209
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> Email: cfong at ci.upland.ca.us
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