Heres a great Ebay deal in stolen property:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1431366437

Claims the print is quad-track with DTS disks, even! Did they make any quad-track prints of CTHD? *ALL* of the CTHD prints I have handled were SRD only ones...

How and more curiously WHY does this guy have a print of this movie? ALL of the sellers' other auctions are for GOLF BALLS...

Things that make you go 'Hmmm'...

Aaron

 

Naturally I declined, saying I was not in the business of bootleg exhibition.

In another incident, when all the prints of The Godfather had been run off and were sitting in the warehouse awaiting shipment to theatres, 12 were stolen. The producer was extremely upset, as one might well imagine, this was passed on to me later. I was contacted by a somewhat sleazy and flaky individual who offered me one of these prints for $2,000. I declined, again saying I would have no involvements with bootleg exhibition.
All this is a no-no. Acquiring a used print salvaged from the dump once the theatrical engagements are over, to be part of a private collection and only shown privately is another matter entirely, and that's OK.
 

Run Joe...Run!

PS SRD only here in Oz also.

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Children really brighten up your life...they never turn off lights.
 

If anyone knows of a film piracy operation, the MPAA maintains a confidential "hotline":
http://www.mpaa.org/anti-piracy/contact/index.htm
http://www.mpaa.org/anti-piracy/index.htm

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
 

I hate it whem people abbreviate the names of movies like that.

Is it that hard to just write it out?

I mean if I mention "MR" does anyone know what I'm talking about?
 

It does piss me off when someone tries this kind of ! I was relieved to see it gone, but I really wanted to see just how much someone would pay for it. AND if the buyer has all the equipment to run it.

MR ??? = Mary Reilly
Monster Ranch
Meg Ryan
??????????

Am I close?
 

MR = Moulin Rogue
 

It'll be fun to see how long it takes someone to figure this out.

I'll give you a hint.

1996.
 

Maximum Risk
 

I should of known it would be one that I was glad to forget. But Brad is right, we tend to shorten long titles by the first letter of each word. Well, that is how I like to do it.

Who wants to talk about MR anyway?!?! Please, don't answer that.

Back to CTHD, maybe John's call to the MPAA did do something. I wonder if they did any gestapo tactics.
 

As far as "MR" goes I am stumped. How about another clue James?
 

OK, Brad, I know Gone With The Wind, but FBDO, LOA, and RHPS, I'm having a hard time with.

But don't tell me. I want to try and figure these out for myself.

Hints please?

The only one I can think of is LOA = Lords Of Acid, and thats a band, not a movie.
 

I was born in '81. Is this before my time?
 

LOA= Lawrence Of Arabia?
 

It was released to theaters in 1975.
 

It was released in 1986.
 

How about TTTIHAU?
 

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
 

However there are some abbrev. that are obvious. GWTW, for instance.
 

I know you're expecting more, like

Don't use contractions.

Try not to ever split infinitives.

Here are some for you to figure out:

MTD

RHMIT

ANATR

BHSK

FWAAF

E.T.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off released in 1986

I was only 6 years old and my brother made me watch it at lease 20 times....my poor little mind...

 

Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
 

but I didn't cheat with searches....whats the fun in that?
 

uhhhh, no no thats not right...uhhhh....no no, NO CLUE!
 

Amazing! Even though it is modded to 6 channel and has a 222 SR/A in it, does it have to sell for more than a new CP65?

-Aaron

 

Since "trailers" are actually property of the distributors, your susposedly not allowed to sell them on Ebay.

There is a guy right now on Ebay who's taking bids on a #2 pencil "complete with eraser", and if you win the bid... he'll also throw in a FREE 35mm trailer of Men In Black II!!!
 

And someone is selling frames from the 1st Spiderman Teaser (But it looks like they are claiming the frames are cut from a film print

Josh

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=

-adam

 

Sorry, Thomas. I stick to my earlier post on this one.

This reminds me of the fellow who cut out "posters" from the movies section of the newspaper for something like 30 years and then tried to sell his collection. He wanted something ridiculous like half a million dollars...for newsprint mini "posters"!

Like Brad, I remember someone trying to sell on eBay a notebook of film strips from about ten different trailers. I think they wanted like $300 for it. I don't think they had a clue how worthless those strips were.
 

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
 

The cost of a standard 35mm release print is no where near £15000 ($22000 US) more like a tenth of that .

For £15K you could "buy" a 45 minute 2D Imax print though
 

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Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
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e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
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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.

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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)
 

On a side note, what about selling full trailers? I see most trailer auctions end at $1.00 with no bids. This could be a good opportunity for indies or sub-runs to get trailers at a little more than shipping cost. It would be cool if someone started a trailer "re-use/recycle" service, if there weren't copyright or legal issues with the studios.

=TMP=
 

My personal feeling is that as long as a) the studio never asked for the trailer to be returned (i.e. the trailers are considered to be "abandoned property") and b) the film is available on videotape/DVD (i.e. it is "licensed for home viewing"), I don't have any moral or ethical issues with selling or purchasing trailers. Whether this is actually legal or not is another question, but no one seems to be making a big deal about the secondary market for movie posters, which are generally handled in the same way by the studios.

In general, donating old trailers to a second-run house seems to be the best approach, since it helps both the studio and the second-run theatre and it doesn't require the first-run theatre to pay shipping charges to return the trailers to the distributor. Ideally, the studios themselves would become involved in "trailer recycling," but we all know that this doesn't happen in most cases.

Obviously, if the studio specifically asks for trailers/posters/etc. to be returned, theatres should comply with the request.

And, yes, anyone who offers a complete print of a current film (or even trailers or posters of a current film)--which almost certainly is either stolen or nonexistant--in a public forum like Ebay is a complete idiot.

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Michael
The cost of a standard 35mm release print is no where near £15000 ($22000 US) more like a tenth of that .

For £15K you could "buy" a 45 minute 2D Imax print though

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hmmmm Someone told me before the rough figure 10 to 15k for a 35mm print. So it's more like 1 or 1.5 thousands pounds??

To me, this indicated that the studio didn't care if they got the trailers back or not, since they made no effort in conveying this message (no return labels, no notices included, etc.) and as Scott stated, "abandoned property."

So if the film's initial release date has passed, and the studio/distributor/depot abandoned the property, IMHO the studio shouldn't really have any scrouples with someone selling a month-old trailer for next to nothing. If it should fall into the hands of some Joe Blow from Idaho, he will most likely have no way of projecting or copying it. If it ends up in the hands of an indie or sub-run operator, then the studio gets free advertizing for their film with no shipping costs to them. Either are better than seeing how many trailers it takes to fill a dumpster.

I guess the general rule would be the fact that the film's release date has passed. Anyone selling "Men In Black II" or "XXX" trailers right now should be severely beaten about the face and neck.

=TMP=
 

And it has BIDDERS!

Be Afraid... Be VERY afraid...

-Aaron

 

Things like this pop up from time to time. A while back, someone was selling film cans. Nasty, dirty, banged up cans for $15 each which "may have shipped movies like Casablanca, Gone with the Wind and Titanic." *sigh*

And then there are the people selling film frames (or "cells") for hundreds of dollars, hacked "from an actual print of the movie"

=TMP=
 

I have like 60 of those "Slit Reels" in my theatre. At $5.95 I could get $357, wow! You don't think Technicolor would mind if I sent back all my prints without cores or reel flanges, do you?

Wow! At $21 I could make $1,260. I think I am going to join E-Bay and bid this pig to the moon.

There's a nostalgia market for recycled reels, making them into clock faces, and the big 6,000' SS reels into cocktail table tops.

So the two bidders willing to pay $$ for a crappy TES reel are out of
their minds, not the seller, IMHO.

I coudn't sell the same reel for a buck, and deservedly so!