Canadian Army newsreels on YOUTUBE

[Alex van de Wetering]

Barry,

Thanks so much for contacting War amps directly and especially for your offer to send a DVD set. I will send you a PM with my address.

I am hoping the quality of the DVDs might be a bit better than the vids on youtube.....and it would make it easier to watch all newsreels back to back on a big screen without any commercials.

Grant; I agree....I am also not a fan of messing with firmware, but I am sure I can work something out that allows me to watch the DVD's here in Holland.
And maybe I am lucky and the DVD's will play without issues anyway. We'll see!

regards,

Alex

[Lang]

I had this region code problem a few years ago. I took my DVD player to a repair place and he fixed it in 30 seconds. He told me that the factory repair manuals - normally only available to authorised service centres - have the code combinations to program area restrictions or remove them all together.

He said they "should" not override the settings as there were arrangements between the equipment manufacturers and film distributors (often the same company eg Sony) to artificially restrict international access so they can manipulate market prices.

Many players now on the market, I think driven by the Chinese disregard of copyright in many areas, freely advertise all-region capability.

All you need to do is to download for free one of the many player apps and they will convert and read any DVD which you can put straight on your computer, a USB dongle or burn a new DVD. Make sure you get a good one because some are more capable than others and you need it to do this specific job. Just make sure conversion is on their list or you will have wasted your time and have to try another one.

Lang

[m kenny]

A good number of the Pathe/Critical Past and Movietone 'unissued' films on Youtube are raw footage from British and Canadian cameramen. In fact they are the only source for Canadian raw footage after the fire destroyed the originals.

For example these films are nearly all Canadian unedited stock:


This is Anguerny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOi6EVobxI


Crossing the Orne to Fleury sur Orne, August.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul7h...rEoT4oSIa&t=0s

Same day/location as previous film and same 3.7 guns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5L5...youtu.be&t=104

GOODWOOD July 18-20. Some scenes shot in Cagny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH1o...rEoT4oSIa&t=0s


GOODWOOD again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dtk...oSIa&index=104


There are many more than the above.



It is fairly simple to download Youtube films if you avoid Chrome!