{"id":447,"date":"2015-05-07T21:52:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2015-05-07T22:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:03:57","slug":"welcome-to-the-new-mastervision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the New Mastervision!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LittleLeagueDVD-Cover-Art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-449\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LittleLeagueDVD-Cover-Art.jpg\" alt=\"LittleLeagueDVD-Cover-Art\" width=\"350\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LittleLeagueDVD-Cover-Art.jpg 350w, https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LittleLeagueDVD-Cover-Art-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>For nearly 30 years, since I wrote and directed the baseball instructional video Little League&#8217;s Official How-to-Play Baseball Video for Mastervision, I&#8217;ve worked off and on for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Stadin, who started the company in 1981, and I worked&nbsp;together&nbsp;distributing a slate of impressive educational and instructional (mostly) videos, first on VHS, and then on DVD. You can see the list at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastervision.com\">mastervision.com<\/a>. (I also wrote and directed, with Jim Ebner and Paul Opler, the Audubon Butterfly Essentials for Beginners and Gardeners and the Audubon VideoGuide to Butterflies Common and Endangered, for Mastervision.)<\/p>\n<p>Just a few weeks ago, after a long period of transition, Richard Stadin retired, signed the papers, and passed keys to the company to me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-04-01-15.40.03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-448 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-04-01-15.40.03-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"2015-04-01 15.40.03\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-04-01-15.40.03-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-04-01-15.40.03-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Stadin signs agreement to transfer Mastervision, after 35 years. It was a hard moment for him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My mission is to move as much of the collection to digital distribution, sell some DVDs&nbsp;and help promote the titles to new audiences via social media.<\/p>\n<p>To that end I&#8217;m posting promotional clips on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPPQ0dYOygaUY6rq08gfDIg\">YouTube<\/a>, on the Mastervision channel, and Facebook, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Mastervision\/163509130344215?ref=hl\">Mastervision Page<\/a>. All the titles are on sale there now, for a limited time, so please check them out if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>People will&nbsp;soon be able to buy digital downloads of all the titles, and rent some of them, too. I&#8217;m excited about the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Mastervision\/163509130344215?ref=hl\">Mastervision<\/a> on Facebook!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 30 years, since I wrote and directed the baseball instructional video Little League&#8217;s Official How-to-Play Baseball Video for Mastervision, I&#8217;ve worked off and on for the company. Richard Stadin, who started the company in 1981, and I worked&nbsp;together&nbsp;distributing a slate of impressive educational and instructional (mostly) videos, first on VHS, and then on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to the New Mastervision!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-memoir","category-nature","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}