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Topic: How do you stack your films
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 01, 2009 05:53 AM
There are many ways to store (stacking) your films so it's nice to be seen. At least some people do based on:
- Film Genre (eg. all horrors, all musicals, all wars, al westerns, etc)
- Well known artists (all Elvis', all Sean Connery's, all Boris Karloff's, all Arnold's, etc)
- Company releases (all Blackhawk's, all Ken's, all Marketing's, all MGM, all Universal 8, etc)
- Serial (all L&H, all our gang/Little Rascals, all A&C, etc)
or the funny one
- Packing type (all hard case, all cardboard, all clamshell, etc).
Which one did you do....?
I must admit that I do the last one....
All Universal 8 (with additional label):
all Columbia (yellow generic box):
All Universal 8 (later box):
All Clamshell (no matter what company releases):
All Marketing & Walt Disney 200":
So what about you....?
Share your story here...(Mike Peckham... you are excluded! We already knew your style.. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) )
cheers,
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 01, 2009 10:25 AM
I stack them on top of each other, no more than abo0ut 18 inches high, on this nice shelf I built for them. This doesn't become a problem as, except for my Blackhawk collection, most prints are in hard plastic containers, so the pressure doesn't affect them.
The size ratio of shelves is about the same with the eastman prints stored in the fridge in the back, except in many cases, they are in thick freezer bags with a selica gel packet or two to ward off any potential moisture, (though this fridge I use is a frost free model).
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Douglas Meltzer
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Posts: 4554
From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 04, 2009 11:03 AM
Winbert,
I arrange by the distributor, in numerical order (mostly!). If the company released their films in different types of packaging, I keep the same type together. For example, the Columbia generic boxes are grouped together, then the Columbia boxes with artwork, followed by the Columbia clamshells (good name for a band). So Columbia's "Taxi Driver" is not stacked next to Piccolo's digest from the same film, even though they're both in similar cases.
Kevin,
Some of those early color titles have fade, but luckily quite a few are holding up well. Many of my Marketing full length features are getting pinker by the day, except for "Black Sunday", "Warriors", and "War of the Worlds". I make a real attempt to screen those older films in the collection. I sell the ones I'm tired of.
How about some more pictures, folks? I like how Gian Luca has his projectors in the same display unit.
Doug
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I think there's room for just one more film.....
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted May 24, 2009 01:04 AM
I am so jealous as to how beautiful everyone's collections look....I guess I tend to organize by format since I have all of my 16mm and 35mm(including Nitrate) in the cold storage facilities at the archive I work at, Most of the rest I used to store in my workroom at the archive but I switched to an office so most went home and I have only recently been trying to put it in some form of order. While currently this only represents a tiny fraction of my collection it is getting there (I have a whole storage space filled with projectors)..I have them on shelves by format, and I am now switching from cans over to the white boxes (I like the clean look), and I have about 50 silent features stuck on those extend-a-reels of which I no longer have the actual extend a reel to use them with so i'm slowly switching them over to 1200 & 1600 reels. Now the storage.....
The Good (Reg8)
(Super8)
The Better (9.5mm)
& of course The Ugly (unboxed/uncanned 9.5)
---Oh and the red box/drawer is how I store the 3000+ movies I have on DVD, and another 1200+ CD's. I have those in paper sleeves & numbered with a database so I can find stuff. I actually also have a database for my films so I can keep track of stuff (especially since I have them in different locations) like where I get them, how much I paid, when I play them, inspect them, etc
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted June 23, 2009 07:53 PM
Ooooh, if only to be that organized!
Actually, my collection has changed due to "Devin" needs. So, now, I have separated all my black and white prints into a another room that is not as climate controlled (for the moment), as Devin is starting to crawl up on shelves. All the color L.P.P. prints are on higher shelves, the bottom shelves have now been taken over by Devin's toys, (one of which is a broken down "Copal" projector!)
The interesting fact is that now that I have placed all of DEvin's toys underneath the shelves of films, Devin no longer desires to play with his toys, (or the films, strangely).
So, black and whites, separate room.
L.P.P. prints up a few shelves.
All Kodak SP and Eastman prints? In the fridge!
Wacky, eh?
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