Re: [Harp-L] This Tugg nonsense for the Pocket Full Of Soul screenings.

[Kevin Hamilton <kham27@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to go see it but I'm not interested in the leg work. I'll just
wait until I can order a copy.

If it works for them and folks do it that's great. Otherwise its a Pocket
Full Of Headache for now. Hehe.

Kevin

On 4 February 2013 23:32, William Lifford <william.lifford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Harp-L'ers,
>
> I have been trying to understand just how the producers of Pocket Full Of
> Soul came up with this idea of screening the film for one day only, with
> the idea of having the people who want to view the film do all of the work
> towards setting up the screening.
>
> It turns out there is next to no time at all to even try to arrange for a
> screening on Long Island.  I could see making a serious effort to find a
> venue and host a screening/promote the viewing/sell tickets if I had six
> months' time, but the screening date is almost upon us.  If I had enough
> notice, I'd save up the money and pay for all the tickets myself just to
> guarantee that the film will be screened where I could actually go to see
> it.
>
> I'd be willing to pay a hundred dollars for a DVD of a harmonica film.
>  But, ask me to try to find forty or fifty people to come down on one
> specific night to watch a movie?  Especially on a weeknight?  I mean, how
> much could the producers possibly make at each screening if tickets are
> twelve bucks each?  The New Haven, CT one has about 18 who bought tickets
> and needs 36 more to buy tickets just to ensure that the film will even be
> shown.  And that's a couple of hours away from me.
>
> I play in a pretty darn good band and we sure can't get sixty people to
> show up on a weeknight.  So how do you convince sixty people to hire
> babysitters for the night when you don't even know for sure if you're going
> out to see the movie or if it will be cancelled?  I know it sounds silly,
> but if you have small kids, you might have to plan things way in advance
> like I do.
>
> What would it take for this film to be available in a more reasonable way?
>  Maybe there could be a pay-to-stream-the-film website?  Would Netflix
> carry it?  Could it be downloaded from Amazon or iTunes?  DVD?  I'm dying
> to see Pocket Full of Soul but I (like many, I'm sure) am completely
> frustrated with the delivery system.
>
> I would think the whole purpose of making a movie is to have people
> actually see the movie.  Seems to me that only one screening day, with VERY
> limited time for volunteers to organize venues and ticket-buying quotas,
> etc., is not going to get the movie out to more than a few hundred people.
>  Shame.
>
> Bill
>