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Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of rare films thanks t | dG1fVXh6cDJ4U3FzNE0
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00:00Do you know Kim's video? Excuse me.
00:03A lot of things used to be here and they're gone.
00:05Nobody rents videos anymore.
00:06Do you know Kim's video?
00:07I do.
00:08Were you a customer?
00:09I was.
00:10And how was it?
00:11Wow.
00:12I'm stepping into the gold mine of coal.
00:15They had things that didn't exist that never had come out.
00:19I miss it so much.
00:20We were actively cultivating rare films.
00:23We would watch these guys in suits clear out rows and rows of VHS tapes.
00:28About a week or so later, Mr. Kim would come into the store
00:31and they would replenish the entire row with all new bootlegs.
00:37Mr. Kim issued a public announcement.
00:48So let me promise to digitize the entire collection.
00:50How could anybody think sending this entire thing to another country
00:54made more sense than NYU's?
00:56I don't, I don't speak English.
00:59Had no one else shared that with you?
01:00That's really weird.
01:01It's the thing.
01:02It's the promise.
01:03We knew we'd never see it again.
01:04Probably was gonna just disappear.
01:06Where are we going?
01:07I don't know.
01:08I didn't know what we were getting into.
01:10This is where people go to get murdered.
01:11Don't forget.
01:12Okay.
01:13Okay.
01:16It seemed like we could do something beautiful with this beautiful collection.
01:19And we didn't.
01:20I didn't really know who we were working with.
01:26I am the local chief police.
01:28We said film knowledge matters more than ownership over movies.
01:32It was a fact.
01:34There was a part of me that felt like, is this for real?
01:37I turned to fiction movies to learn how to execute a heist.
01:44Anyway...
01:45bero prettyARD
01:51I part of mine.
01:53We're very involved in supporting us.
01:54We did not conversation.
01:55Many of my colleagues have meetings and presence.
01:57Though we were talking about the better people have to shoot us for themselves.
01:59I'm telling you.
02:00I'm kidding.
02:01We did not recognize them.
02:02I'm wrong.
02:03We're talking about the better people of my country with us,
02:03Justow.
02:05They are talking about the better people.
02:06And as a mean'
02:07It is just what we're talking about the better people of mine.
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