roll call for our last hail mary

[Ex-UL SID]

The NCAA has copies of all NCAA Championship events.

You should be able to call this number and get pointed in the right direction.

NCAA Media Contact Line: 317-917-6117

[douglas]

well i got another warm lead

[MelRock]

Crap it is just a picture, I kept clicking on it to have the video play. Good job!

[douglas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgwQwA1MZbg
http://youtu.be/kgwQwA1MZbg?t=23m30s
sorry skip to 23:33 its just a highlight but that means that the game existed somewhere at some point hopefully it still does

[DaddyCajun]

right on Z, a reward of some sort is the last option, 1st i will test the waters then see if that needs to be done, but we shall keep in touch

Have you tried channel 10(KLFY) or 3(KATC)? They may have some old new clips, both have been around!

[DaddyCajun]

ive called every school the cajuns played from 1957-73 in search of footage for the doc, when i was done i called again, and then again. Getting past the gate keeper is hard, getting someone to actually look for relics from ages ago when it has no benefit to them is nearly impossible, we have gotten lucky twice but now i am contemplating adding a reward of x amount of dollars, i haven't nailed a figure down yet.

may main focus is on the 2 sweet 16 games against k state and louisville. the bonus ones would be anything from the 66 season opening road trip against the likes of duke, houston, vandy, tennessee and auburn. I find it hard to believe the fan bases don't have anything in a private collection.

my next tactic is to reach out to each and every alumni chapter thinking that anyone who is willing to organize a watch party 1,00 miles away from campus will have something or at least know a guy and so on.

my question is who is willing to donate to the pot to make a finders fee a reality? Im going to approach the university about this but im sure if they assist in any way they will simply ask the fan base so im skipping the middle man so to speak.

yes we still have operating funds on hand but they are locked into services we will need to wrap. any and all expenses have been coming out of my pocket directly which i dont have a problem with, but this will require a bit more funds i think. Obviously this has a lot of moving parts to it so if anyone is willing we will discuss further. In the mean time i'll keep grinding away, peace out cajun nation

A few years ago, there were some old film reels in some lockers in Blackham on the West side of the building. They probably are not there anymore, hopefully the Athletic Department has them!

[CajunRebel]

Have you tried channel 10(KLFY) or 3(KATC)? They may have some old new clips, both have been around!

I wish. I spent time contacting the local stations of every single team we played during the Shipley era. What I quickly realized is that every station in the country has digitized their archives by now. This means every reel was trashed many years ago, and only the most important reels were ever digitized. If we needed footage from 2000 we'd have a gold mine saved on a computer, but from the 50's to the mid 90's there's just nothing left. Even the big stations have nothing.

I guess it makes sense, the news is all about documenting today, not yesterday. But I was still surprised at just how little they kept.

[CajunHaven]

A few years ago, there were some old film reels in some lockers in Blackham on the West side of the building. They probably are not there anymore, hopefully the Athletic Department has them!

I saw about 50(plus or minus) large reel to reel labeled game tapes in enclosed metal circular containers sitting in a film cart. The opponent and date were written on the outside of the containers. There were several years games(organized from 1970-1973). The cart and the films were the only things in that room. I called Robert Lee to let him know about the films and I felt they needed to be brought to the basketball office in the Cajundome. It probably was never done. A few years later Alonza Allen told me a friend of his called him to let him know that some films from his time had been thrown in a dumpster at Blackham. Alonza drove over to Blackham and retrieved some(few) of the films out of the dumpster. I don't know where Alonza's era films were stored in Blackham. I'm afraid almost all of those old films have probably been thrown away.

[Turbine]

I guess it makes sense, the news is all about documenting today, not yesterday. But I was still surprised at just how little they kept.

It is a shame that video media never saw themselves as the equivalent of the "newspaper of record."

Douglas' "Light's Out at Blackham" will become the VoR.

[CajunRebel]

It is a shame that video media never saw themselves as the equivalent of the "newspaper of record."

Douglas' "Light's Out at Blackham" will become the VoR.

I know, I always figured they would feel obligated to keep these old reels somewhere. Since you bring newspapers, I'm not even sure most newspapers have their old papers archived. Back when I was pulling newspaper articles for this I found the only people who actually took care in archiving the old papers were college libraries, not the papers themselves. Unfortunately many of the microfilm reels they were archived on have started to degrade. Of all the ones I looked at from the 60's-70's about one in 5 were completely unusable. Hopefully someone will decide to digitize and preserve these before we lose them all.

And you're right. In the future when people want to learn about Shipley and this team I'm glad LOIB will be the place they go. Aside from the hours and hours of interviews he has done from everyone involved, Douglas managed to get his hands on footage and sound that were all but lost to history. It's a good story and an important moment in basketball history. I'm glad it is being preserved through this film.

[douglas]

Looks like I may have located the sweet 16 game against Louisville,just got confirmation its sitting in the archives! Now we wait and see what it looks like if its a broadcast or a coach copy and the always fun process of getting the NCAA to write us a consent letter. All in all not a bad way to end the day

[Turbine]

Looks like I may have located the sweet 16 game against Louisville,just got confirmation its sitting in the archives! Now we wait and see what it looks like if its a broadcast or a coach copy and the always fun process of getting the NCAA to write us a consent letter. All in all not a bad way to end the day

Nice job Douglas, no stone unturned.