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Jim Schrader
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1628
From: Savage, MN, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2006 12:29 PM

check out this sellers description it goes on forever and for 1 400' home movie.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1970-Disneyland-Reno-SF-Old-Faithful-Home-Movies-400f_W0QQitemZ6475785539QQcategoryZ63821QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Scott G. Bruce
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 229
From: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Registered: May 2005

posted January 25, 2006 12:53 PM

Good Lord! How long must that have taken? Someone has too much time on their hands, to be sure!

SGB

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2006 03:00 PM

This seller has been known writting the description in such kind. I have addressed it on Ebay Oddities thread (where actually this post should be...before Kevin gets mad [Smile]

) here.

Check also his feedback (he has good rating though) and click on his completed list, all his 8mm films were described with very long story...but they are sold! (some with godd prices too), despite those were only home movies.

I got a learn from him that a big effort will harvest something!

cheers

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2006 11:34 PM

Guys, I copied his description to MS Words and putting on standard report format (i.e Arial, 12 Font and 1.5 space).

Guess what?, There are total 21 pages, 7,565 words, 45,640 characters!!!!

[Roll Eyes]

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

Posts: 2392
From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

posted January 26, 2006 04:07 AM

The odd thing is that he is'nt even explaining the content of the film, just background wikipedia-style informations about the various topics... (Disneyland, Redwood, Neon signs...)

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Scott G. Bruce
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 229
From: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Registered: May 2005

posted January 26, 2006 12:52 PM

Must be cut and pasted from somewhere, right? Who in their right mind would do that kind of research for an old home movie?

SGB

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Tom Photiou
Film God

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

posted January 28, 2006 02:31 PM

Got to be a joke ?? [Confused]

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Jim Schrader
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1628
From: Savage, MN, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 30, 2006 12:15 PM

check out the end price maybe it pays to have a lengthy description [Big Grin]

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Scott G. Bruce
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 229
From: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Registered: May 2005

posted January 30, 2006 02:15 PM

Wow! I take back what I said. There is method to his/her madness!

SGB

[ January 30, 2006, 04:34 PM: Message edited by: Scott G. Bruce ]

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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted February 02, 2006 11:03 PM

Most of that text is definitely copied from somewhere, as Scott suspects... the writing style and clean paragraph layout are dead giveaways (IMHO). Still, that seller took a lot of time and care with those gorgeous still images taken from the film. They're almost worthy of a good telecine! [Eek!]

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