Tweet nitrate fragments from ROBIN HOOD (1922) sell on eBay

35mm nitrate fragments from Douglas Fairbanks' ROBIN HOOD (1922) and others sold on eBay for $153.50 last night.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/310375850828?ss ... 1435.l2649

If Indiana Jones was set to our actual time... he would found the holly grail and the lost ark on eBay.

A modern silent film, like The Artist, could start like a centenary man foundind a copy of his own films on eBay, and we would be transported to the past by his remamberences estimulated by watching the old print.

DRAT! Don't know how I missed that one!
I've been collecting fragments for years.
But that's OK as I wouldn't have bid on that lot,
not enough comedy!
Looks like a Lionel Barrymore in there too.

Thanks for the heads up,

SteveR

One question:

When you collect nitrate reels and fragments, do you try to find if the fragment have a lost scene from the film, or a better image quality ?

I think internet could have a service to make this easy. A site about film preservation when one section to people send images of footage, like a frame photographed in a light table, and the film restorers and archivists would check if it worth to check it closer.

[silentfilm]

There's already an AMIA site that does this, and you don't have to be an AMIA archivist to submit a photo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfig/