6502 Documentary - raw footage available

[BigEd]

Some few years ago we discussed a crowd-funded project to make a 6502 documentary. Although the crowdfunding was successful, unfortunately progress slowed to a stop and the project is now cancelled.

I'd prefer not to get into discussion about the cancellation or the mechanics of crowdfunding in this thread, if we can manage that.

But I would love to share discoveries made in the trove of raw footage which Jason has made available. It's raw, but surely contains much of interest.

For example, there are several short interviews here with Dr. Donald Hanson, the originator of the famous 6502 block diagram, who used the 6502 in his teaching and took the step of visiting MOS, being rewarded with his own copy of the enormous original 6502 schematics.

[BigEd]

It might be useful to identify each of the raw footage sets:

• 2012 02 BILL BUDGE Bill Budge, 12 clips, 14Gbyte of Quicktime download OK, previews not OK.
  2012 02 FINLAND Maybe 5 people at the Helsinki HackLab in February 2012, 34 clips, 75G of Quicktime OK, previews not.
  2012 03 ROMERO John Romero, 14 clips, 18G of Quicktime OK, previews not.
  2012 06 AUDIO POOL Various people, 34 clips, about 13 hours of audio. Maybe all DEFCON/Las Vegas related.
  2013 06 MONTREAL Various people including Natalie Silvanovich, 18 clips, 15G of Quicktime OK, previews not.
  2013 08 INT80 Various people? 12 clips, 3G of Quicktime OK, previews not.
  2013 10 CPEDDLE Chuck Peddle, 4 clips, about 2 hours of audio. Only this clip has content.
  2013 10 KITCHEN CRANE Garry Kitchen, 12 clips, plus David Crane, 14 clips, about 83 mins total
  2013 10 LEEJR Leigh L Klotz (Logo), 9 clips, about 48 mins
  2014 02 ARIZONA 01 David Crane and others at WDC, 42 clips, 33G of Quicktime OK, previews not.
  2014 02 PHOENIX ADVENTURE Bill Mensch (and others?) at WDC, 81 clips, 68G of Quicktime OK, previews not.
  6502 MINNEAPOLIS Donald Hanson, 41 clips, about 59 mins
  Computerspiele 2013 visit to Computerspielemuseum Berlin, 28 short clips, about 14 mins
  KansasFest Footage Kansasfest with Steve Wozniak and more than a dozen others, 218 clips, 108G of Quicktime OK, previews not.
  MONTREAL FOOTAGE Various people in Montreal, 30 clips, 36G of Quicktime OK, previews not.

[BigEd]

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[GARTHWILSON]

Wow, I can see how the project would fall apart just from getting out of control, with dozens (hundreds?) of hours and hundreds of gigabytes! Where to start?! Whatever anyone watches and wants to give us some guidance as to what parts are best to spend a little time on, would be appreciated.

[scotws]

Sorry if I'm missing a previous discussion, but what's the license on these? Would we even have consent to create a documentary?

I'm wondering if this would be something you could approach a tech museum with, if only because they might have suggestions how to even start something like this. It also looks like a nice thesis subject for a historian ...

[BigEd]

Good question Scot, fortunately with a clear and useful answer:

Quote:

All of the footage I've shot from all the documentaries is going on the Internet Archive. As of this moment hours are already up at this link, although metadata still needs to be entered and much more material needs to go up. I am releasing it all into the public domain, allowing anyone to use the footage however they wish to.

[BigEd]

One artefact of the documentary process which might hold some interest is the list of possible characters, which includes, for some, a little info on their notability.

What's more, Jason intends to auction off the domains, so if you want "the6502.com" you know who to contact to participate.