Help my quest for more rainbow?
July 12, 2012 1:39 PM Subscribe
How can I find the complete Rainbow Quest series (Pete Seeger's show from the mid 60s)?
I have watched and really enjoyed all the episodes available on Netflix (they have some available as streaming, and some on DVD). I think the ones they have are the few episodes that made it to DVD. The full list on Seeger's site shows that this is about a third of the episodes in the series. The wikipedia page says they were available in several formats, but not many sold. I am not very near any of those libraries/universities.
The used VHS tapes must be around, but somehow I doubt there are a lot of people itching to sell them if they have them. There is currently one VHS tape on ebay, but it's one that I've seen on DVD. I'd really like to get the whole series at once, if buying, or a way to borrow (from a library somehow?) one at a time or whatever.
The format doesn't matter to me at all. I already have or would get the hardware to watch any format. I would even be thrilled to find just the audio in any format.
Other than the obvious (watch ebay) where can I look?
I have watched and really enjoyed all the episodes available on Netflix (they have some available as streaming, and some on DVD). I think the ones they have are the few episodes that made it to DVD. The full list on Seeger's site shows that this is about a third of the episodes in the series. The wikipedia page says they were available in several formats, but not many sold. I am not very near any of those libraries/universities.
The used VHS tapes must be around, but somehow I doubt there are a lot of people itching to sell them if they have them. There is currently one VHS tape on ebay, but it's one that I've seen on DVD. I'd really like to get the whole series at once, if buying, or a way to borrow (from a library somehow?) one at a time or whatever.
The format doesn't matter to me at all. I already have or would get the hardware to watch any format. I would even be thrilled to find just the audio in any format.
Other than the obvious (watch ebay) where can I look?
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I didn't.
I went to the interlibrary-loan folks here at my awesome public library, and found via WorldCat that there are four libraries in the world (!) that have these sets of 38 VHS tapes: I put in requests, but after the wheels turned for a few weeks, I learned that they all apparently decline to loan audio/video stuff over ILL.
That seemed like my best bet, so I guess I'm out of luck. If you have any thoughts, please respond even though the question is old.
posted by fritley at 12:36 PM on August 13, 2012