Thomas,

I'm quite sure that there is a small but guaranteed market for the
video. I, for one, would be interested, regardless of whether or not
the video has overdubs or subtitles. All it would take would be
perhaps a little more time in the production studio to do the
overdubs- not necessarily ambitious or expensive, just a minor editing
job. I don't see why this guy couldn't do at least a small run of
maybe 500 copies for $30 a pop.

As someone who has recording experience, I can tell you that maybe 2-3
more days of studio time is a MINOR expense as professional
productions go, especially if it expands the market for your product,
so don't believe any B.S. about the unsurmountable expense to do this.
Apart from the studio time, added expenses would perhaps be to hire
the translator and narrator, perhaps for a day at the very most, and
then the program needs to be remastered (maybe several hours). If I am
missing something, let me know; I will stand corrected. (union scale
in Germany is high, etc.?)

Aside from that, I'm sure that there are many bus enthusiasts who
would pay much more than $30.00 for a tape like this. By all means,
haggle this guy into doing this. Tons of people on or off both lists
will LOVE you for it!!!

Best of luck!!!!!

Sam

"Just as original as the original=just as many ideas appropriated from
VW as the first time"

---Thomas Niksch <cct_tom_niksch@CLASSIC.MSN.COM> wrote:
>
> Ron,
>
> Recently a jourmalist who nicely composed a video named Bulli, Bus and
> Pritschenwagen in german language, asked me about my opinion
concerning to
> bring such a video on the noth american market.
>
> The film shows the compete range of the rear engined busses from
1950 to the
> the very end in Graz 1993. It is about 90 min long and includes a
session of
> about 25 minutes showing a queue of approx. 300 buses passing by for
the 1993
> Bulli meeting near Koblenz.
>
> As costs for transferring the  video into english in a professional
way are
> quite high I forward these questins to you:
>
> - How many of those videos could be distributed in USA / CDN ?
> - What would be a reasonable price compared to other offers in the
US ?
>
> Siegfried H. Maier who produces the videos will provide a copy in US
system
> compatible standards and in german language so maybe somone (e.g.
Tom Forhan's
> wife) can consider if it's worth while beeing "exported"
>
> Thanks Tom N.
>
> adress is:
> Siegfrid H.Maier
> Bischof-Fischer-Stra�e 118
> D-73430 Aalen
> phone +49 - 73 61 - 6 60 14
> fax: +49 - 73 61 - 6 49 94
>

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