HELP NEEDED: Pro TV footage for a new Queen documentary

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<b>Committee seeks help licensing unseen pro footage for a new Dutch TV documentary on rock band Queen</b>

Dear friends and fans in the Queen community,

As some might know we are making a new TV documentary of Queen for broadcast in the Netherlands.

The documentary is already proceeding well. It is based on Queen's success in the Netherlands, and will be broadcasted nationwide in November. We have found a lot of interesting material, and great stories already, but we need your help!

We are operating on a limited yet significant budget with some external sponsor assistance, most of which will be going to cover production and studio expenses, and we want to purchase licensing rights for archive pro-shot footage from various concerts and interviews from local television stations as listed below:

1974 TV performance
1977 Live footage from Leiden
1977 Interview
1978 Live footage both nights in Rotterdam
1979 Soundcheck, interview, live footage
1979 Award presentation in December
1982 Award presentation footage
1984 **AN UNSEEN AND UNIQUE DUTCH INTERVIEW with all members**
1986 Live footage from Leiden
1986 Interview
1990 Interviews
1992 Interviews

And some great extra surprises:

2002 Amsterdam (Queen's Day surprise show)
2005 Pro shot 5 songs and interview with BM (the infamous 'angry' interview) and RT
2010 The WWRY musical premiere
2011 Brian May at the Eddy Chrisitani Awards


However, due to various licensing costs we cannot afford this all within our available budget, and we want to offer the chance for YOU out there to help us make acquiring as much footage for broadcasting possible. We have partial funding, but not nearly enough to fund the list above, with focus on giving priority to pre-1991 material.

You will not be only doing an enormous favour for us, but also for many Queen fans out there who have never seen much of this previously unseen footage before!

We have set a minimum goal of 4500€, but the more we can raise beyond that, the more everyone will benefit. Let's make this a reality!

With thanks from us to you,

Sikke van der Veen

Kroon Media Beheer BV (production company)

This campaign will close on November 01, 2014 (11:59pm PT).

On behalf of Sikke, any help from you guys here and elsewhere would be seriously appreciated :)

Even if you can't afford to contribute a donation, just helping to spread the word would help go a long way!

@sikke

You are being paid to produce a (new) Queen documentary to be broadcasted in the Netherlands right? Can we just assume that you are not very good at negotiating a good business deal or forecasting certain costs which can stay within budget (INCLUDING purchasing licensing rights), or am I overlooking something?

Don't jump to conclusions, OK? Let's just put it this way: Sikke doesn't set the price for the licenses. The material is owned by different television stations that set their own rates. I've seen some numbers, and trust me they are not cheap!

by the end of the month..im donating...sikke is a great guy..and his project is great! hope it will come with some english subs:))

TRS-Romania wrote:

@sikke

You are being paid to produce a (new) Queen documentary to be broadcasted in the Netherlands right? Can we just assume that you are not very good at negotiating a good business deal or forecasting certain costs which can stay within budget (INCLUDING purchasing licensing rights), or am I overlooking something?

To answer this my financial loss would be equal to a average yearly income in my country. Unless I cannot sell this format 4 times.

I have the money , my partner has the contacts, we have help even from Montreux and London, but still this is a game about money.

So a good american bloke to the aid, mr. Guilbault told me about fund raising. I never it would, could work for these kind of productions.

In the end we are out of funds : it is up to the Queen community whatever they want to see on this format. We made a deal with Universal, but the terms are that we need to broadcast it at 23-11 this has a lot to do with the thingies which are coming up. If these there wouldn;t be anything going this year we would have failed big time. And we sold it for 1 broadcast already to a nationwide channel in the Netherlands. So if we want to use extra unseen and exciting footage this is all up to the fan community.

I am not being paid, I invest money , same as the other parties involved. When it will be broadcasted 3-4 times I will get my money back. This is not a commercial release. It will cost me money, all of us, calculated this finacial loss. So this is a donotian from me to Queenfans. Though we found some new and exciting thing and it is up to you (the fan community) to make this happen.

If we succeed I will upload all of my rare stuff , audio to this website. You can see part of my collection at my FB page!

This is a deal !

I am a bussiness man , and I am eager to make money of everything I thouch. But this will cost me money, if we succeed I will upload all my rarities I own.

I had spreaded your words to a Spanish Queen blog. I have translated your words and I had tell the blog's owner to keep spreading your words.

I'm struggling how to see this as anything but an official documentary - you have a deal with Universal and it it being broadcast on national tv - but you didn't find out the cost of licensing the material before negotiating the deals with Universal, the broadcasters etc??

I wish you luck and hope to see it myself, but it sounds like a strange way to have approached it.

cmsdrums wrote:

I'm struggling how to see this as anything but an official documentary - you have a deal with Universal and it it being broadcast on national tv - but you didn't find out the cost of licensing the material before negotiating the deals with Universal, the broadcasters etc??

I wish you luck and hope to see it myself, but it sounds like a strange way to have approached it.

Very simple :

All recordings doesn't belong to Queen, these rights were bought of at the time they were allowed to film whatever they agreed on. And to re-broadcast it , the rightfull owner (so either RTL4, Veronica, Avro , Tros...etc.)can decide on any price they want.

So if you want the Leiden 86 it is up to the fans..... we are out of funds.,..

Is interesting, how much they filmed of Leiden 86?

Has Canada been annexed while we were all looking the other way?

Ghostwithasmile is BACK! wrote:

cmsdrums wrote:

I'm struggling how to see this as anything but an official documentary - you have a deal with Universal and it it being broadcast on national tv - but you didn't find out the cost of licensing the material before negotiating the deals with Universal, the broadcasters etc??

I wish you luck and hope to see it myself, but it sounds like a strange way to have approached it.

Very simple :

All recordings doesn't belong to Queen, these rights were bought of at the time they were allowed to film whatever they agreed on. And to re-broadcast it , the rightfull owner (so either RTL4, Veronica, Avro , Tros...etc.)can decide on any price they want.

So if you want the Leiden 86 it is up to the fans..... we are out of funds.,..

Can you be more specific on what songs and how much of each show was filmed? And more important: how much of each show will be in the documentary? All the available footage or just snippets?

Leiden 86 for example, sounds nice but if it's only "One Vision" it's not interesting at all.

This "UNSEEN AND UNIQUE DUTCH INTERVIEW with all members": Is it the one that was broadcast on Dutch TV? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFbFaCro8Gg

By the way: nice that you guys are doing this. Hope it will be a great succes!

Penetration_Guru wrote:
Has Canada been annexed while we were all looking the other way?

Oh hah yeah, the Quebeckers absorbed us. We'll now be known as Poutineland :D

I created a video for this project. You guys could share it around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ1yb7CiL6E