Don't Buy This Area 51 Video

From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:07:56 -0800
Subject: Don't Buy This Area 51 Video

In private email, dds@softcom.net writes

>Yesterday in the mail I got the newest catalog from
>Facets Multimedia
>1517 West Fullerton Ave.
>Chicago, Illinois 60614
>1-800-331-6197
>
>On page 2, new videos are listed.  Top right corner lists, I quote:
>
>"Area 51
>America's Most Secret Base"
>Set deep in the Nevada desert (where else?) is a place that the
>government doesn't want you to know about.  A hint:  UFO's might be
>involved.
>$24.98

I've seen this video and found it very disappointing, not the
least because I am featured in it.  The filmmaker sent me a
pre-release copy.  Watching it was a painful experience, because
it has to be the worst Area 51 video ever.

It is an Area 51 video without Lazar, Knapp or Lear, without
Lockheed or the U-2, without any useful information whatsoever.
It just has Glenn  Campbell -- way too much Glenn Campbell -- and
some lights in the sky which look like aircraft lights and flares
to me.  UFO watchers are interviewed on the lights they've seen
near Rachel.  There are many factual errors in the narration and
virtually no investigation. This is essentially a three minute
throwaway piece for the evening news that has been stretched out
to 30 minutes without adding any new material.  At 3 minutes, it
might have been harmless; at 30 minutes, it is excruciating.

The cover is pretty, though.  That's what sells videos.

The tape contains what has to be my worst interview ever.
Usually, when you give a TV interview, you expect only a few
soundbites to be used.  Here, they hardly edit me at all, and
they try to make me fill in for Lazar by having me tell his story.
I should have kept my mouth shut.  I learned a lot from this tape
about what not to do in interviews.

This video is shallow and superficial, and I am embarassed to be
involved with it.  Unless you have a taste for the truly bad
("Plan 9 From Outer Space") or want to see Campbell's worst
performance, don't buy this tape.

Glenn

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