The gent who runs Grapevine also has been winning many one and two reelers on 16mm on eBay lately. All of it looks like great material for DVD release. The latest one he outbid me on he actually got really cheap. Al Christie in "FOR SADIES SAKE" http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&ite...

edwardjurich wrote:

Thanks for posting that photo. Too bad that film was messed up.

Cool photo!

Nice photo.

Is that a 8x10, postcard format photo or snapshot picture on paper?

Folks at http://www.silentcomedians.com/forum/index.php may know who the other people are.

They have a subforum devoted to Conklin.

Beware when bidding on this. The seller is Frank Buono, who has a well-deserved reputation for selling junk 16mm films. Although Paypal says that they will cover the purchase, if you live outside of New Jersey I would put it on your credit card so you can get a refund if they are junk. They doo loo...

silentfilm wrote:September 1933
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from http://www.hf.rim.or.jp/~kaji/cal/cal.cgi?1933

I can't change the font to make the columns line up.

Thanks!

Here's some information on the Latonia in Oil City, Pennsylvania. http://cinematreasures.org/theater/18070/ and the Drake Theater in Oil City... http://cinematreasures.org/theater/20044/ And the Lyric in Cincinatti... http://cinematreasures.org/theater/1046/ The Lyric in Oil City... http://cinematr...

8 Reels in 35mm from this series is up on eBay. http://i17.ebayimg.com/01/i/001/17/de/de9a_1.JPG The $995.00 "buy it now" price seems reasonable. These would not be nitrate, but diacetate safety film, I presume. ALEXANDER HAMILTON PILGRAMS REEL 2 EVE OF DESTRUCTION 1 UNMARKED PILGRAMS REEL 3 PILGRAM...

A roll of theater event announcements arrived in the mail today. Included is an ad for Betty Compson's personal appearance on September 27 - 28, Wednesday - Thursday, at the Drake Theatre, Oil City, PA. I don't know what year Sept 27 - 28 fell on Wed - Thurs but I assume it is 1933 because that is w...

I just had a roll of early 1930s theater event snipes come in the mail. Can anyone help me find out where it came from? The eBay seller is in Conneaut, Ohio. Three theatres from the Harris chain are indicated. Drake, Latonia and Lyric theatres. Oil City and Cincinnati are mentioned. The date codes o...

If you are going to collect old nitrate just remember a few things. Don't put them near any kind of heat source. Especially those that puts out more than 100 degrees. If you smell any thing unusual, stop everything. You and your house are NOT Superman. Move that reel to another part of the room. Kee...

Flax soap is what I was thinking of. Here is a link for some cleaning hints. http://www.ennispublicsafety.net/FIRE/after_you_have_a_fire.htm Thanks for the link. Moments after the fire I went to Lowes and bough a gallon of Krudd Kuter (around $17 for a gallon). I smoothed some on the floor and late...

edwardjurich wrote:I assume the stack of film next to the stove in the picture is safety film

Nitrate fragments from the turn of the century to the early sound era, inches from the burning reel. Nothing was damaged and is on the new shelf.

bugsydog wrote:The 1913 Pathe kok 28mm is a nice piece you have, thats along the line of something different and what i'm looking for, what is its price range?

BTW, KOK is pronounced "cock", the name of the Pathe rooster mascot.

Pathe is pronounced Pa - tae, sounds kind of like potato.

Here are the photos I took moments after the fire was out.... This is the the back room where I had to drop the flaming reel. The door is to the right and what used to be my waste basket is to the left. Leaning on the trash basket was about fifteen Priority Mail boxes. Everything was aflame in the s...

all 28mm projectors and film are $$$$$$$$$$.

They are most common on ebay UK, but remember 1 UK pound is equal to more than $2 US these days.

Shucks! My browser freezes up when I look at the catalog pages. :evil: A high speed connection helps, but check on the version of the flash player you are using and see if it needs updating, should be 10 for the most recent. I've got an old computer. Bought it in late 2000. It pauses from time to t...

Darren, I hadn't noticed it, but I'm really impressed that you did. I love things like this. I'm always a bit tickled by grammatical errors in title cards - I hada really good one - I'll see if I can dig it up. Gregory I think I notice these things because I am usually sitting in the first three ro...

Shucks! My browser freezes up when I look at the catalog pages.

Does anyone know anything about Universal's "Person-Oddity series from the 1940s? They are all still under copyright. Outside that I can find nothing else. How long did this series last? Are there any notable segments? I have a reel of these all splice together with titles taken off and would like t...

This type of stuff may be touched up for home video but I've noticed some flaws in intertitles while viewing up close at theatres. This isn't a big deal to me and I'm probably the only one to notice it. For example, THE LAST COMMAND has one intertitle card with finger print marks on it and another w...

Harlett O'Dowd wrote:

Richard M Roberts wrote: Then,how do we know that the standing ovation wasn't for the film?

RICHARD M ROBERTS

We don't. We weren't there.

I would like to think it *was* for the film, but I can't state that as fact.

It was for both.

mrbertiewooster wrote:Yes there is, at:

http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions ... index.html

Thank you.

Here is teenaged Mickey Daniels and Mary Kornman on an installment of THE VOICE OF HOLLYWOOD ca. 1930 - 31.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4lO2b4SjeI

Is there a downloadable auction catalog for this sale?

This blog has a report of the Nosferatu screening, which the writer did not enjoy. The audience did give Alloy a standing ovation though. There is also a response by Ken Winoker of the Alloy Orchestra. http://emofights.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-learned-two-things-on-sunday-october.html I was at the fi...

silent-partner wrote:Pizza + Beer = Good
Pizza + Beer + Nitrate film canister on stove = Not Good.

I hadn't had a drink since Saturday! I opened three bottles 10 + hours after the fire, however.

I'll post pictures later. I'm making another pizza right now [bought a 3 thin crust pizza kit from my neice's school fundraiser] and it looks like the electric stove top burner where the nitrate was standing is where the oven vents out. :( ( Darren, clearly you need more veggies in your diet. Raw v...

I'll post pictures later. I'm making another pizza right now [bought a 3 thin crust pizza kit from my neice's school fundraiser] and it looks like the electric stove top burner where the nitrate was standing is where the oven vents out. :( There isn't a film within 8 feet of the stove, BTW. I don't ...

It was on my stove while baking a pizza pie.

How was the pizza, by the way?

Jim

I ate it just after I put the fire out and moved the other films away from the stove. It tasted good but the thin crust was slightly burnt.

You put a can of nitrate film on a hot stove. Geez, Darren, don't you feel sort of ... you know ... stupid? You of all people should know better than to do that! How was the pizza, by the way? Jim It was open reel standing upright. While the oven was warming up I opened a window, turned on the ceil...