Comments on: UbuWeb Film Now Streaming

UbuWeb Film Now Streaming

treepour — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:20:10 -0800

UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video holdings to on-demand streaming formats. via WFMU.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:31:22 -0800

Excellent, thanks! Their audio resources are superb so this should be great. Very nice to see Wegman's early dog stuff, from before he started dressing them up.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:33:45 -0800

Ooh! neat!

By: ism

ism — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:14:10 -0800

excellent, ubu is one of the best resources on the net, and this increases its ubu-usability somefold.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:56:34 -0800

And for anyone who doesn't already know it, WFMU is a cultural treasure of the highest order.

By: 2sheets

2sheets — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:00:09 -0800

WFMU changed my life. No, really.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:25:36 -0800

wonderful beyond words. ubuweb alone justifies the existence of the entire remainder of the intartubes, imho.

By: stinkycheese

stinkycheese — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:47:52 -0800

Yep, this is super amazing.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:23:01 -0800

Yeah, but they more or less eliminated links to their collection of extremely high quality, high resolution (usually 640x480) XviD and Quicktime encodings of these wonderful, hard to find art films, and replaced them with crap ass youtube-quality h.263. And they're promoting it as a feature. This shit is hard as hell to find, most of it only on rare VHS in college libraries. This pisses me the fuck off, as I had a whole bunch of stuff that they were hosting bookmarked for later wgetting. It looks like at least some of the files still exist on their servers, at least for now, so I guess I'll be teasing out the old URLs and downloading as many as I can before they get potentially deleted.

By: treepour

treepour — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:13:10 -0800

Hmm. I'm not sure, blasdelf. I haven't checked them all, but, e.g., on the page for "Landscape with Robert Ashley" there's a link for a 1.7 gig avi download, just below the streaming version.

By: unknowncommand

unknowncommand — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:35:42 -0800

Awesome. I keep forgetting how much I love ubuweb.

By: treepour

treepour — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:12:18 -0800

On second glance, it looks like blasdelf is right about the original high-quality versions having been removed. However, it seem that there are now links to places where you can purchase high-quality versions. Hmm. Not that I mind purchasing a high-quality version, but I do wonder what's up . . . do the sources who have the high-quality versions own the copyright or have exclusive distribution rights or something?