Now available of DVD

On January 11, 2003 there was a ceremony dedicating a plaque and boulder in honour of Clark Ashton Smith. The boulder was the one which Smith ashes were interred under upon his death and was endangered by land development. The ceremony took place in Bicentennial park and afterwards there was a conference in the near by Library. The entire proceedings (two and a half hours) were filmed by Henry J. Vester III and have been transferred on to a two CD-ROM set by Boyd Pearson.

CD Samples

• Low Resolution: Ron S Hilger starts Plaque Dedication Ceremony (0:56) Windows media formatted file.
• Low Resolution: Donald Sidney-Fryer plays and reads (1:00) Windows media formatted file.
• First 5 minutes of the video in mpg format. Zipped 42MB file (One hour 45 minutes download time at 56k). This is the same quality and format as the cd set.

How to acquire the CD-ROM set or DVD

• DVD 1 dvd 2:35, with menu and chapters
• CD Set:The files (two per disk) are MPEG1 on CD-R's. All but the oldest CD-ROM drives should be able to play them. Any Windows 95+ pc comes with the software needed to play these. A printed copy of the table of contents is also included.
• Price  - Donation of US$15 (includes postage). Profit goes to site related costs.

  CD or DVD

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  Contents of the two CD-ROM set

  
  DVD same content different format.
  

  Disk 1

  Track 1 (cas-plaque-001-001.mpg) 39:00

  • Henry J. Vester III introduction
  • View of Centennial Park surrounds
  • Plaque shown and read
  • Ron S Hilger starts Plaque dedication ceremony
  • Dirt from boulder original position spread
  • Wine pouring
  • Toast
  • Donald Sidney-Fryer reads letter from Philippe Gindre
  • Post ceremony
  • Town chat post lunch
  • Restaurant look
  • Conference starts. Auburn-Placer County Library Beecher Room
  • Ron S Hilger MC
  • James Patterson intro remarks
  • James Patterson Reads Robert B Elder's memoirs of CAS
  Track 2 (cas-plaque-001-002.mpg) 38:59
  • Cont' James Patterson Reads Robert B Elder's memoirs of CAS
  • Scott Connors reading from his intro to Selected Letters
  • Ron S Hilger - previous plaque wording
  • A Look at the table featuring some of CAS's works
  • Dennis Rickard gives personal view of CAS
  • Donald Sidney-Fryer speaks on European publishers

  Disk 2

  Track 1 (cas-plaque-002-001.mpg) 45:26

  • DSF discusses smith
  • DSF reading to music
  • DSF Reading The Witch with Eyes of Amber
  • DSF music
  • DSF Tuning lyre
  • DSF reads The Kingdom of Shadows
  • DSF talks about instrument
  • DSF reads Amithaine
  • DSF song inspired by CAS
  • DSF talks about instrument
  • Ron S Hilger MC
  • Henry J. Vester III commentary
  • HJV reads The Litany of the Seven Kisses
  • HJV reads To the Daemon
  • HJV reads The Great God Awto

  Track 2 (cas-plaque-002-002.mpg) 33:04

  • Cont' HJV reads The Great God Awto
  • HJV reads The Shadows
  • Ron S Hilger MC
  • Gene Scott reminiscences
  • Bob Elder reminiscences
  • Glyneth Cassidy reminiscences
  • Gene Scott reminiscences
  • Ron S Hilger closes the program