5 Russian Videos Gone -- Please Help!

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Colleagues:

It appears that Broadcast.com has removed the five documentaries
on Russia (Triumph of the Spirit, Kolyma, Rural Russia, Russian
Prison No. 240 and Under the Spell of Youth) from their Video list. At
the same time they have added a French Culture Department to their
video list, a Spanish Culture Department, a German Department, an
Asian Studies, even an American Cultures department. But the
Slavic department, which opens so brilliantly with these five
documentaries, is now gone.

May I ask those of you who would like to see these great
documentaries (which many of you have not had a chance to even
see yet) back on Broadcast.com's Video on Demand list (under
Documentaries) to please drop them a quick email note concerning
this. The address is simply:

videos at broadcast.com

Below are copies of my two letters to them on this subject.

Yours,

Benjamin


From:                   Self <Single-user mode>
To:                     videos at broadcast.com
Subject:                Russian Videos -- What's happened to them
Send reply to:          sher07 at bellsouth.net
Date sent:              Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:36:07 -0500

Dear Broadcast.com:

May I please inquire as to what has happened to the five great
Russian videos you had on your site just a week or so ago?
Namely, Triumph of the Spirit, Kolyma, Rural Russia, Russian
Prison No. 240 and Under the Spell of Youth.

I just received a letter from a member of Harvard University's Slavic
Department concerning the disappearance of the videos. They are
superb and of great educational and cultural value. Could you
please reinstate them?

Yours,

Benjamin Sher


From:                   Self <Single-user mode>
To:                     videos at broadcast.com
Subject:                Russian Videos -- A Cultural  Treasure
Send reply to:          sher07 at bellsouth.net
Date sent:              Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:48:48 -0500

Dear Broadcast.com:

I just sent you a letter concerning the apparent disappearance of
five superlative documentaries on Russia, namely: Triumph of the
Spirit, Kolyma, Rural Russia, Russian Prison No. 240 and Under the
Spell of Youth.

I would like to ask you further to consider establishing a Russian
Language and Culture section in your Videos just as you have one
for French Culture, German Culture and Spanish Culture. Surely, it
must be as important and urgent for us to learn about Russia as
about the other great nations of Europe and the world.

Please consider this as a great educational and cultural opportunity
for Broadcast.com and its millions of viewers.

Thank you so very much.

Benjamin


Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Web and Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/