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Topic: Niles Films and Price Lists
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Andrew Woodcock
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Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted March 27, 2017 03:56 AM
No it isn't stressful thank you Greg,simply an expression of continual dismay brought about by the constant fixation to calculate or comment upon a films modern day value, that's all.
Pitiful is more how I'd term it.
It isn't only our friend Winbert who is guilty of this over analytical aspect of our hobby either. It rears its head very very frequently, these constant discussions surrounding the predicted value of these older goods in today's market.
Who is paying too much for what,how much the DVD is on offer at Walmart this week etc etc etc.
My point is only ever that these things in the right hands, are priceless, but offered to most, absolutely worthless.
They are simply worth only what one or two people are prepared to pay for such items, not a penny more, not one less.
None of it matters,only that the films are still there to be USED and enjoyed.
Can you believe Greg, some people here and elsewhere, have paid rather large sums of money to watch a film only twice despite admitting they have owned it for many many years??
What a waste!
Why not just then pass it on,if you don't enjoy it much, and let someone else, who loves this film, really get the pleasure from these things that they deserve?
I'd much rather put in similar efforts discussing the merits of maintaining these prints in A1 condition while running them,as opposed to any possible merits by way of locking these things up in a temperature controlled vault for the hope that one day, they may well bring us all plenty of dollars as we see people admit to.
That is my primary reason for my interest in the preservation of the machinery to show these films on. Otherwise, without it,these films would have no more value to my myself than they would by offering them to the average Joe in the street.
[ March 27, 2017, 05:02 AM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 27, 2017 11:35 AM
Hmmm, it looks like "The Scarlet Claw" was a good deal, as Niles priced them all at the same price ($119.00), where "Claw" was 74 minutes instead of just slightly over 60 minutes, which most of the other features were. Shoer feature films those Holmes films!
That reminds me of something ...
I believe that some other super 8 companies must have gotten ahold of Niles negatives when they went out of business. I have a copy of "Popeye Meets Ali baba and his 40 Thieves", and while it is an L.P.P. print,. the leader clearly says "Niles films" on it, so i don't know who printed this re-release of a Niles title, but they did a good job of it, AND on L.P.P. film stock.
I wonder what other Niles releases were re-released after they went under?
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Paul Adsett
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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 27, 2017 03:47 PM
I have only seen three Niles prints, The Outlaw, The Dentist (w,c,Fields), and a 30 minute mystery called The Shadow . All three were absolutely awful quality.
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