Lost Gem in Norway

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Norway who? Santa just dropped a wonderful gift near the pole, the first Christmas film ever made by the Company of Disney.

They just found a lost Disney film on  the National Library of Norway. A Surprising and at the same time an Exiting event. Everyone is in awe for the new found treasure. One of the archivist on the library commented "At the beginning, we didn't know it was a lost cinematographic treasure,"...

 Of course no! None expects to archive a long lost disney film on a casual friday on a public library...

Now, the serious part of this recovery is on the ownership of the work. According to the article linked below "The Walt Disney Company eventually regained the rights to Oswald in 2006 in an unusual arrangement with Universal. " 
 That means that some legal issues may be underwater and is not really clear to see if the long lost archive belong to either one, plus it was found on a public institution. The question is : To where or to who should  the gains of this treasure go?

Feel free to expound on your answer by commenting below.

As for Alvise, he thinks Santa should decide.

News gotten from:

Lost Walt Disney Film From 1927 Featuring Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Found In Norway (The Huffington Post)

By: Mazza, Ed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/lost-disney-film_n_6313354.html

Ask vimeo

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How to stay afloat, genuine, and add free? Ask Vimeo

Lets face it, the content that the TV and YouTube provide us is not enough, luckily we count with Vimeo to shake things around.

With a relatively low profile and lots of originality, Vimeo use the passion and integrity of its users to gain revenue without recurring to advertisement.Content creators sell and rent their creation with the users while Vimeo stays with 10% of their share (Pretty different from YouTube which take 45% of its users' sells). ehm...

The focused niches in which authors surround their project with, provides a prosperous revenue for Vimeo. The financially comfort of both the company and its professional users provides a more retributive space for visual media to be afloat and available as the their content is used to provide a financial gain and fair distribution to the creator by their own market without having to rely on advertisement space, which in Alvise's opinion diminish the essence of the art presented.

Some positive testimonials about this method are stated by Mr. Duplass who said that "Ever since comedian Louis C.K. started directly selling access to his shows online to fans, there’s a lot of interest in Hollywood about testing new business models, particularly those that would seem to be quite favorable to creators." 

And listen: According the article below  "Vimeo has attracted roughly half a million paying subscribers, and IAC said during its most recent earnings call in July that the site’s revenue had jumped 45% versus the previous year." That means that a lot of things will be going on in the next few years! Caminians get Exited! Take a leap of faith and browse more videos at Vimeo, a place where originality is the bread of everyday!

Quotes taken from the online article:

Vimeo Starts Attracting More Web Video Series, Viewers, But Advertisers Not Welcome(The Wall Street Journal)

By: MIKE SHIELDS

http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/09/29/vimeo-starts-attracting-more-web-video-series-viewers-but-advertisers-not-welcome/

Fashion as a pathway to film

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If any Carminian over here is some kind of rockstar-fashonista type of person this post is for you!

"All Saints" the British fashion retailer is beginning to use cross-media techniques to enhance the customer experience by appealing to their senses in their online website that presents both, high quality garments and independent works of visual artists. 

Alvise invites you to visit "All Saints" webpage and enjoy the film section of the online shop, where short films expose great minds with amazing visuals in a quite gallantly and exuberant way. Alvise’s favourites were the "Manifestos",  series of short films of five different originals that share with the viewers the world as they see it. 

Among them you got Gorge, London Ultimate Street Poet, who in his tender and firm voice, speaks for the future by  promoting children to be guided with prosperity and purpose. He ends his poem with “I wander what the cure for cancer is trapped in one of this young minds; see the soil is not infertile, but the flower can only blossom in the sunshine.” This evocative artist is has won the his place among Alvise’s favourite street poets. You rock Gorge!

Another rockstar Alvise wants to mention is the ground breaking Stunt Ride Extraordinaire, Cheska Miles, who comment in another short video about the passion she feels when she rides her Honda super motorcycle: “The ride is is control of the elements the ride is all that matters…” 

This beauty has life under control!

Note: this are only a couple of the five originals, so go and  type on your browser http://www.us.allsaints.com/studios/ and enjoy the ride.

Got Netflix?

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 Welcome, welcome little Carminians. For you, who are fond to foreign originality, Alvise is pleased to announce that Netflix is offering a brand new platform for foreign industry. Check it out!

Adaptations to famous american shows are some trends that Netflix is following to enhance its international impact while giving help to foreign producers to wide up their game. As you can imagine, Netflix  is financing the Mediterranean and French version of the acclaimed series "House of Cards".

 Europeans are happy about it, Joris Evers, a Netflix spokesman in Amsterdam offered his unparalleled support when he commented:  “We’re at a scale where we can economically create original content that debuts exclusively on Netflix. By personalising promotion of the right title to the right member, we have a large opportunity to promote our original titles.”

Netflix also gives importance to cultural delights that adapt to each charted audience.

In UK, Netflix gives the british “The Crown,” a series about the honorable Queen Elizabeth and her reign. In Mexico, on the other hand, Netflix is funding a Spanish-language comedy series that includes the element of soccer as is main focus. 

As you can see Netflix is on to world dominance.

Apart from the nationality issues, Netflix is also promoting creative animation works. That is super cool because it  makes possible to independent series like “Wakfu” to be introduce without being eclipsed big animation giants and the economic drain for exposure. As Olivier Comte, the managing director of Ankama, put it into words:“The business model of animation is honestly only possible if you are capable of being broadcast in many countries, because animation is quite expensive,”

Carminians, Netflix is offering chances to globalise entertainment channels and is giving opportunities to creative excursionists on entertainment industry. What do you think about it? Alvise thinks is a nice way to add a more palatable visual buffet in the confines of the virtual webs.But: Should we allow the diminishing of potentially substantial foreign material  by creating reheated american hits? Or: Tell Netflix to promote more authentic productions of the territory in the spotlight?

Feel free to comment,

But don´t fall down the stairs.

Quotes taken from the online article:

Europeans Bracing for Netflix (The New York Times)

By: Carvajal, Doreen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/business/media/europeans-bracing-for-netflix.html?_r=0