Re: IML: Website content question - opinion requested

[Tim Durrer <tdkd99@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to see this happend and would be willing
to chip in on the costs.

Tim Durrer
73 Blue Sky

--- Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The club recently purchased 60 motion picture
> Service
> Training Films.
> 
> They are from the MTSC program, and they are a
> complete (or nearly so) set of 60 films that covers
> all manner of Chrysler Service topics for 5 years
> spanning 1973 through 1978.  
> 
> A description of the MTSC program can be found here:
> http://imperialclub.com/Repair/Lit/Master/index.htm
> 
> They appear to have a magnetic stripe that would
> presumably be for sound, so these are movies about
> working on Chryslers/Imperials, and could be a very
> interesting.
> 
> We are currently investigating what the cost would
> be
> to convert them to computer-files with the intention
> of posting them to the club website as viewable
> videos.
>   
> Initial quotes indicate that there will be setup
> fees
> for the lot of $200+/- and then expenses would be
> about $0.14 per foot.  With each film being
> ?perhaps?
> 400 feet, that's $14 per film.  They are sealed in
> cartridges and I can't tell lengths at this time, so
> that is a variable.  Total cost could wind up being
> somewhere between $800 and $1200 - perhaps.  
> 
> 
> We would like to hear:
> 
> 1.  What people think about having access to a
> period
> resource like this. 
> 
> 2.  Whether you feel strongly enough to chip in to
> help cover the costs of conversion.  
> 
> This will take a little time to get done, but once
> posted, the films become a (hopefully) permanent
> resource in our always-free-of-charge online
> library. 
> 
> 
> 
>   
> Here is a list of the topics covered for 1973. 
> These
> are the printed manuals that were passed out to
> accompany the films during training sessions in the
> dealerships.  The other years are similar but
> obviously contain different material:
> 
>
http://imperialclub.com/Repair/Lit/Master/index.htm#1973
> 
> 
> 
> 
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