I like your term "aging out"! That's a nice way of putting it Jamison. I first saw the Chan films in the early 80's on my local PBS station and have loved them ever since.
I'm going to give some DVDs to my local library in the hopes of sparking some interest in Chan and perhaps offering to do a Friday night showing this winter. Our local arts council has outdoor movies and I may approach them about showing Chan. These films have multiple appeals - art/film/history etc. To see them is to love them.
Janin,
That's a very good idea about donating DVDs to a library. I'm going to approach someone in charge at my neighborhood library and see if they're amenable.
I approached the person in charge of acquiring DVDs and blu-rays at my local library about donating three or four Chan DVDS and two "Saints." She said she appreciated the offer, but no thanks because the films were all in black-and-white and the Chan flicks would probably be "unacceptable" to library members. I tried to get her to say why,exactly, but she hemmed and hawed and I had other places to go.
