BooHoo no more BlueGobo

[Demitri2]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 5:24pm

After many many enjoyable hours of seeing musical theatre video cips online, the holder of the Ed Sullivan tv show clips has demanded everything be removed. What a shame. There was no financial gain involved in the website's showing them. Why couldn't they leave well enough alone. Any complaints can be forwarded to the link below:

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Updated On: 4/21/09 at 05:24 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 5:30pm

Except that they were loosing money from people who watched all the videos and then opted not to buy the Ed Sullivan DVD.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 5:34pm

You would be right CatsNYRevival, except that the vast majority of the Ed Sullivan clips haven't been made available.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 5:35pm

I actually bought a few of those dvds because of that website. So there goes that argument.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 5:37pm

I bought some Ed Sullivan DVDs, too, and the majority of the clip featured on BlueGobo were NOT on the DVDs. So unless the company is planning to release a new DVD set THIS YEAR with the Broadway clips, then this really SUCKS!!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 5:38pm

And, if I'm correct, aren't most of those Sullivan DVDs out-of-print?

[DAME]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 5:42pm

They are available. You just have to look. And they are legal.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 6:40pm

Wow, that's really unfortunate.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 7:46pm

All good things must end

Maybe they intend to release them to video. One can hope.

[Demitri2]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 8:18pm

The quality on the DVD releases were far superior to what was shown on BlueGobo plus the time clock/date numbers were removed. The fact that they were on BlueGobo never interferred with my purchasing them on DVD. So few clips were ever released commercially anyways.


Updated On: 4/21/09 at 08:18 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 8:20pm

This DVD has been out for years & represents a fraction of the musical numbers. Sadly, I doubt the majority of them will ever see the light of day.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 9:04pm

But what percentage of the BlueGobo clips were from the Sullivan show?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/21/09 at 9:07pm

A good enough majority that they shut down the site.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 1:13am

Where am I going to go to see Karen Morrow sing "I Had A Ball" now?

This is a serious question!

This sucks!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 8:10am

Thank god some of us saved them.

[whoisquilty]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 8:45am

> Thank god some of us saved them.

And posted them on YouTube or burned them to DVD and distributed them with the watermark. No wonder Sofa found the site.

I'm told by Jeremy that the site will relaunch in the next few days without the Ed Sullivan clips. Let's hope that no one else is as uptight about this stuff as Sofa.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 9:54am

Some collectors had the Sullivan collection with the watermark decades before Blue Gobo existed. Before YouTube, there was once a thing called VHS. Remember? The Sullivan material was 7 VHS tapes of two hours each, of varying quality--over 150 clips of Broadway performers from 1949 to 1970.

What's maddening is that the Sullivan estate will never release these clips because their first Broadway collection didn't make enough money.

I'm surprised they let BlueGobo have them as long as they did.

Rob & Craig: why didn't you offer to house the Sullivan collection on BroadwayWorld and split the advertising revenue with the estate?

Meanwhile, SondheimBoy--check your IMs re Karen Morrow.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 10:01am

Before YouTube, there was once a thing called VHS. Remember?

Yeah, but VHS boots are a lot are harder to track.

I mean, I'm not going to ever suggest that I'm above illegally viewing copyrighted material, but come on - this is Broadway World, where people fall over themselves to report community theatre productions that change a line or a lyric; you don't think the mentions on and linkings from this site had anything to do with it?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 10:05am

http://talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1715917

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 10:06am

i think that aside from the posters - and to a small extent the broadway community - no one else even knows we're here.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 10:10am

Ooh, snap.

[whoisquilty]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 10:47am

> Some collectors had the Sullivan collection with
> the watermark decades before Blue Gobo existed.

Wasn't talking about the timecode. Was talking about the BlueGobo.com watermark.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 11:22am

Hmmm...never noticed that.

[Scripps2]

Posted: 4/22/09 at 4:15pm

Just to add my sense of outrage, disappointment and deprivation at this news.