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Topic: Ebay IDIOT ALERT!
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Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1842
From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-19-2002 04:58 PM
I disagree. What if a trailer is damaged or destroyed by a projector, (or more correctly, an uncareful person operating a projector) but a few "cool" cells are salvageable for "collector's sake"?I've spent a break or two cutting cells from messed-up trailers I found in the trash. Not to sell, though. I put them in those little binder pages for slides that the NCN people left behind.  Now I know that most of these e-bay people aren't taking their frames from damaged trailers, but I'm sure all people who possess "film cells" are not assholes... =TMP=
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-20-2002 12:00 AM
Yeah - but selling it on Ebay is being kind of sleazy. Some people will do anything to make a quick buck! Sorry, Thomas. I stick to my earlier post on this one.
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Michael Brown
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1522
From: Bradford, England
Registered: May 2001
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posted 06-20-2002 06:27 PM
About film prints for sale on ebay.lets take Spiderman as the example. Its currently selling for £333 (500US) Does the seller not relalise that the print is worth much much more
-like £15000
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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 06-20-2002 10:03 PM
Apropos film clips in scrapbooks, back in the 1960's I drove out
to New Jersey at the invitation of a young couple trying to sell
the stuff their late father had accumulated in his lifetime career as projectionist. They had about 100 projector manuals with parts catalogs,(Each in a carefully labeled manila envelope) an E-7 head, a personal projectioists "bible" he had typed single spaced about an inch thick, and a scrapbook of film clips of all the noteworthy films and different film formats he had ever run. There were odd widths, like 63mm, and film with round sprocket holes, hand-colored frames,
and others I had never seen before. Now that was a wonderful piece, but I was short of funds and space, and suggested they keep the two original books as family heirlooms. About a month later they told me they sold the whole lot for $300.
I watched a reconstruction of Sergei Eisenstein's "Bezhin Meadow" made
from the four-frame film clips of each shot he kept in a scrapbook
as an editing aid. Since the film was destroyed with no other materials extant, these clips enabled the construction of a still-frame version with music and narration added. A valuable addition to film history, and an understanding of the director's art and ideas.
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Barry Floyd
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1079
From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 06-21-2002 10:15 AM
When I bought all of the contents of the projection booth of the Woodzo Drive-In Theatre, I found a box of "goodies" the original full-time projectionist left. It was full of hand-written letters from the owner (in New York) to him (in Newport).. most of them postmarked in the late 60's and early 70's, small notebooks - detailing every film he ever showed at the theatre, how many reels it had, who was the distributors, and when he showed them. I also found in the bottom of the box, a small manilla envelope of his "personal collection" of individual cells he clipped from the movies he showed. Most of the cells were from "porno films", showing only the scenes he either "personally liked" or was not allowed to show, and other cells featuring women in various stages of nudity and un-dress. I would assume, by looking through the calendars of films, it was the former not the latter.When we pulled the lens cabinet from the wall, we found a hole in the concrete block wall stuffed full of Playboy Magazines from the 60's & 70's. I have no idea what to do with this stuff, but there's no way I'm gonna part with it. ------------------
Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)
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Its bad enough trying to find trailors for some films without these jackasses chopping them up into 1000 useless pieces 
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