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Topic: Do you collect films or what and why?
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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 01-22-2000 10:58 PM
I was a big 35mm collector several years ago. Had a nice Century SAW, Super Lumex and AW-3 in my basement, when I lived in Illinois. My main interest in collecting lies in B-Westerns, of which you can't find too many in 35. After moving a couple times, I sold the equipment and most of the prints, opting to concentrate on 16mm, as it was easier to store, and titles were more available.Well, since the quality of 16 varied between good originals and terrible dupes, the money per-picture was around $100, and I still needed space for the prints, I said to heck with it and concentrated on a video collection. It's pretty much all the titles I could ever want, at about $3 or $4 apiece at K-Mart or Walmart, et al, (for B-Westerns), with a big savings in storage space. I love film, but it's no longer practical for me, as much as I hate to say that. Now, I'm selling the rest of my stuff off, as I've moved to smaller (and more affordable) quarters (check my ebay auctions under the seller name hycandescent, if you're interested-there's more to come). Film was fun while it lasted (as a collector, that is). But I also have family considerations, too. It just made sense for me to get out of it.
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Ari Nordström
Master Film Handler
Posts: 283
From: Göteborg, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 01-23-2000 07:40 PM
I have a Zeiss Favorit70 and a rebuilt CP50 with add-ons for mag sound for 35/70 (there's still some installing to do, though). I've bought a couple of 35mm features, and I have a couple of hours of trailers, a few of them in 70mm. It's more fun than collecting DVDs, even though I do that, too. And then, of course, there's all kinds of movie theatre memorabilia from closed-down theatres, from Cinerama reels to uniforms.It beats the hell out of collecting stamps, that much is for sure.
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timothy johnson
Film Handler
Posts: 50
From: minneapolis, mN 55419
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 01-24-2000 12:15 PM
I was an addicted gambler before becoming a film collector five years ago, I now put that gambling money into my 35mm collection, so of course that type-A personality has me swimming in more than 4 million feet of film in my air-conditioned - dehumidified basement of my house. I just can not stop until I have enough film to stretch spliced end to end from Battery Park to the Golden Gate Park, that is my performance art dream I will acomplish in my retirement. But in the meantime I will have movie parties and crank up the best looking picture possible, oh, by the way, you got to try out those Clark Synthesis Sub sonic Transducers, they really ROCK!!! I swear by them, it will be the best thing you have added to your movie experience besides 35mm and digital sound. I have had friends actually get scared when a super low freq. below hearing sound effect kicks in on the seat shaker, they jump ! especially if it's a scary film with extreme low end.
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Masao Garcia
Film Handler
Posts: 34
From: Lancaster, CA, USA
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 01-25-2000 02:24 AM
Okay, okay, this may sound strange, but I collect bits of burnt film from "brain" wraps. I've just started, so I only have two. It all started with the opening night of Star Wars Episode I. One of the prints (which I didn't build) had static and "brain" wrapped around the 5th or 6th reel. I was in the audience of the other show with a walkie talkie in case something went wrong, and sure enough, something did and I missed the whole light saber battle at the end. We even had an Usher-B up there keeping an eye on the two prints. Anyway, I took the burnt piece of film home and now I'm suddenly wanting to collect burnt film strips. Why?
I don't know.... BTW, I only have the SWEI piece and the piece of the Hurricane which I mentioned had "brain" wrapped in the static thread.
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