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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted September 10, 2017 06:52 AM

Perhaps the most unbelievable sale on eBay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/16mm-Feature-Film-THE-YOUNG-CARUSO-Two-Reels-AS-IS-Heavy-Vinegar-Fused-Film/400767359946?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D46150%26 meid%3Da334eb2e3fd345e59a907d499e07b190%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D142500499700&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

A 16mm copy on two 1600' spools of "The Young Caruso". The seller states;-
"This film has a heavy vinegar syndrome and is completely stuck together. It needs to be soaked or chemically treated before you can even unwind them. They are not functional as they sit".

Yours for only US $24.95.

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Maurice

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Tom Photiou
Film God

Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted September 10, 2017 11:43 AM

What a moron!!

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Mark Todd
Film God

Posts: 3846
From: UK
Registered: Aug 2003

posted September 10, 2017 11:50 AM

Oh Dear, what on earth ???

If they don`t sell the film I hope they don`t cut it off and sell the tainted reels on to an unsuspecting buyer too.

Another Oh Dear !!!

Best Mark.

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Tom Photiou
Film God

Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted September 10, 2017 02:15 PM

At least the sellers honest, only an even bigger idiot would buy it though

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Melvin England
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 707
From: Hull, East Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Feb 2016

posted September 10, 2017 03:50 PM

All this talk of vinegar is making me hungry. Anybody fancy a bag of chips?

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1785
From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted September 10, 2017 04:38 PM

It still looks better than a film recording of a missing TV programme found in Nigeria by Phil Morris, I think it was a Morecambe & Wise episode.

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