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morris · Regional Vice President - NE CLSNA

Lamont Movie

Luckey · Michigan State Commissioner - CLSNA

Hey Moe,
Any idea where copies can be purchased? What company/person/studio produced it? I would love to have a copy. Be nice to have it running on a little DVD player in a clan tent.

Knockdow · Guru

never heard of it before, good find

Kilted Carver · Senior Member

If DVDs can be made of the VHS, or if they offer a DVD, I would be interested as well.

Knockdow · Guru

there is technology to convert from VHS to DVD. Copyrights need to be considered.

Maybe Morris could write a book report for us biggrin

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MacPatrick · Senior Member

I would like to have a copy of hat movie on a CD too, I hope that can be worked out.

Wood Badger · Senior Member

OK! I too would like a copy, so maybe it would be best to have our shop purchase copies if that can be arranged, that way we all can have a chance to own a copy.

morris · Regional Vice President - NE CLSNA

The movie was made in association with Highland & Islands of Scotland, Intercity and S.T.B. Scottish Tourist Board...A Heritage Corporation Scotland Production in association with Grampian Television...The copy right is (1992) held by the Heritage Corporation. there address is...The Heritage Corporation, 8 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2 Ireland. Phone # 353 1 766616. If they do not have this available anymore I will lend my copy to any one in our clan who is interested in viewing it.

Dulcimer Dude · Veteran Member

Hey Moe, I've had a copy of this LAMONT documentary for about 10 or 12 years now. I finally got it transfered to DVD but not in time for the Blairsville,Ga. Games. I have a portable DVD player I was going to use if the DVD had been transfered on time. I watch this at least 3 or 4 times a year and before each Highland Games just to get pumped up!! We really do need to find the company who made this and see if they have copies or could make copies for us. Perhaps,if they are still in business, they offer this in DVD format now. Slainte!

morris · Regional Vice President - NE CLSNA

Mr. President Sir its good to hear from you! I will be checking this out to see if they offer it on DVD. My buddy Jim (Michigan Commissioner) is checking to see if he can pick up a copy on his visit to Scotland. Look for new post here…if its not available we can move to plan B.

LarneMan · Senior Member

I'd be interested in having a copy.

Denpat55 · Senior Member

I would like a copy

Dulcimer Dude · Veteran Member

The quality on the DVD copy I have is kind of rough but if y'all would like, I'll see if my friend Terry could make a few copies for those really interested in this subject. It really is good info about Scotland in general and has several very good points of Lamont history. I'll check into it.

-- Edited by Dulcimer Dude on Thursday 25th of June 2009 01:55:45 PM

LarneMan · Senior Member

Dulcimer Dude wrote:

The quality on the DVD copy I have is kind of rough....

-- Edited by Dulcimer Dude on Thursday 25th of June 2009 01:55:45 PM

Is that because of the quality of the VHS tape?

David · President - CLSNA

I'd love one too. Let us know if Terry needs us to chip in a few dollars if he's willing to do it.

EoinDubh · Senior Member

The Heritage Corporation in Dublin does not seem to exist any more. The latest reference to it that I have found is an article from 2003 mentioning the commercial failure of their file Dancing at Lughnasa. The article asks if this might spell the end of the company. Based on the age of these tapes it would be best to get them converted to DVD before the oxide falls off the backing.

Dulcimer Dude · Veteran Member

Hey Rick, in answer to your question.....YES. The tape is old and has "run it's course" so to speak. Anybody out there with a good VHS tape of this should have it transfered to DVD ASAP before it gets too old. Rick, have you had a chance to watch the film yet?? If you get through the "bad quality" you can get a sense of what the presenter is conveying about our clan. MEW

LarneMan · Senior Member

I have had a chance to watch it. Video quality didn't seem to be bad. Sometime soon, I'll try to capture it in my video editing SW and put it on DVD. Not sure when, but I'll try to make it soon. Just have to figure out how to hook it up to my Mac. There is a way, it's just been a long time since I recorded anything from a VHS onto the Mac. (Don't have a DVD recorder.)

PS - If I do put it on DVD, would you really want the tourist ads at the end on there? wink

David · President - CLSNA

No!

morris · Regional Vice President - NE CLSNA

The copy I have is pretty good... I will see if I can find some one to make DVD's and how much it will cost.

kvnturner · Veteran Member

Hi all.
If its not to cheeky would it be possible for me to have a copy on DVD too? I will of course pay all the shipping and cost etc.
Have a peachy day
Kev Turner

HBlake · Member

I would love a copy too

Knockdow · Guru

dont forget if shipping DVD from US to Europe, the format are different. I learned that the hard way. I forget the types

LarneMan · Senior Member

I'm working on getting a good quality copy on DVD, but it will only be for North America.

North America uses the NTSC standard for TV whereas Europe uses the PAL standard. One can get a multi-regional DVD made, but I can't do that myself. I may know someone who can tell us what it would coast to do that.

Hopefully, in the next few weeks I will make time to see how putting it on DVD goes.

Skye Clarsair · Senior Member

I have this video and would be glad to give it up. It's in very good shape -- only played a few times. I wasn't entirely impressed with it. Quite a bit of the footage is generic and can be applied to almost any clan. (Actually I did see a version made for another clan and you can tell which parts were edited in to personalise it.) I would hope there'd be something better available by now. If not, maybe someone should put something together.

LarneMan · Senior Member

Yes, I agree. It wasn't all specifically about Lamonts. It struck me as more of a tourist video that included some info about a specific clan, but was really intended to get people to go to Scotland. wink

Not that that's a bad thing, but not what we'd want to be all there was to tell the clan history.

It would be nice if there was something better out there now. Don't know of anything, though.

kvnturner · Veteran Member

Thanks for the info on the NTSC format on the DVD. I have checked and my player is multi region so it should be ok.

kvnturner · Veteran Member

Any news on converting the Video to DVD yet? I keep looking for a copy buut no look so far.
your aye
kev t

EoinDubh · Senior Member

To me it looks like one of those things from the games where they purport to give you "your" coat of arms and family history. In fact a sort of scam. I have seen several of this sort where the majority of the video is general Scotland with just a bit of info on a specific clan.

-- Edited by EoinDubh on Tuesday 22nd of September 2009 11:14:19 PM

LarneMan · Senior Member

I have Mike's copy of the VHS tape. I've been a little busy with some other things, but will get back to trying to get a good copy on DVD soon.

morris · Regional Vice President - NE CLSNA

I have a place that will convert my copy to DVD I will let you know how it turns out...and after that we can see about more copies. I recently moved and had to back burner some things...but now I can get back to more of the fun stuff.

LarneMan · Senior Member

I've copied the VHS to Mini-DV, but just haven't had the time to put it in the computer and get it on DVD.