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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 05, 2009 11:17 PM
Autographs and animation art.
I lucked into katherine Hepburns autograph (on her own stationary no less, there's a story behind that, as she didn't do autographs)
James Stewart's and Tim Conway's, among others.
My prized animation possession is a series of handwritten letters from Chuck Jones, as well as some original pencil sketches he did of Bug's Bunny ect. I have the pleasure of getting to know him as a young man, and we cooresponded for a good while, (up until around the time of "Roger Rabbit"). This was before everyone really caught onto him and after that, it was incredibly hard to keep in touch.
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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 06, 2009 03:25 AM
I like this thread, it’s always interesting to know what other people collect. I’m sure most of us on here have the collector’s gene, I certainly do and I have to keep it tightly under control! ![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)
I am another model railway collector, not in any big way, but I held on to the Hornby Dublo 3 rail layout that my brothers and I enjoyed as children and have continued to add to it over the years. People who know me won’t be surprised to learn that I can never pass the opportunity of buying a piece of Dublo in its original blue box!
My other, and perhaps most consuming passion is old VW Beetles. Having grown up with VWs my first car was a 1955 VW Beetle and over the years I have owned countless examples, several I have restored and one that I still own, I show from time to time – in fact it’s shortly to be featured in an International VW magazine! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
I currently have two Beetles, the one mentioned above, is a 1972 World Champion Edition, it’s one of a limited number built and sold to commemorate the Beetle overhauling Fords record for production of a single model (the Model T), I also have a 1957 model. The latter I am in the process of restoring, currently concentrating on a rebuild of the engine and transmission. A VW friend and I are hoping to make the 4 yearly vintage VW pilgrimage to Bad Camberg in Germany in it in a couple of years time.
I didn’t discover Super 8 until I was in my 20s, having mostly been involved in still photography before being bitten by the cine bug. Being a compulsive tinkerer I was immediately attracted to the mechanical side of the hobby and have always remained fascinated by the projectors and equipment, but being a social sort of chap, the opportunity to put on a show for receptive audiences whilst enjoying the purr of the projector was an irresistible draw and I was quickly hooked…
Mike ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Auntie Em must have stopped wondering where I am by now...
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 06, 2009 05:38 PM
Hey guys ...
I would be interested as the median age of those into railroads and railroading in general, as I have heard about this in the past through numerous other posts, (and films with a train theme are a popular sub-niche of Super 8 and 8mm). I wouldn't be surpriased to find out that they are of the older sect.
Though I must admit, (though a young 43) that I have always had a fondness watching those trains close up.
When I was a little younger (I'm smarter now ... yeah, right), I would put my head in between the wood trestles (I think that's what they are called) in between, (not on the "iron road", mind you) and would watch that train roar by, at a roaring 50 or more miles per hour, mere inches above my head.
The ground rumbled!
The sound was deafening!
I screamed bloody murder!
... as I knew that if I lifted up my head, that train would lop it right off!
... and, when the train would finish going by, I would be rushing to my feet, dancing about with glee going ...
" Wow! Fu...ng Aye!! " (and other assorted colorful metaphors),
... as, there was such a freaking adreneline rush doing that.
Come to think of it, that was only two years ago.
Never mind the thought of a bouncing rock off of the wheels striking me in the head. I swear, I MUST lead a charmed life!
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Claus Harding
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1149
From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted March 07, 2009 10:32 AM
I'll be 49 in April, and I started with the basic 'going in circles' Marklin kit when I was about 10 (Christmas gift.)
At the same time, as a kid, I would take the train with my grandmother, and we still had steam in Denmark in those days. It cemented my love of trains and train travel.
Needless to say, after we moved, the little basement got taken over for the purposes of railroading. Sawhorses and planks to build the layout on, paper machee mountains, two-three separate sets of tracks, very ambitious ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Where I now live, the freight lines run 4 blocks away, through Washington DC. I find that I keep an eye on what kind of freight goes through, and generally indulge in a bit of trainspotting. I have also recorded the trains with my portable digital recorder, just to have sound effects handy.
PS: Osi's story reminds me of the time I was on an overpass and I stuck my head through two of the iron bars in the railing to see the train go under. I couldn't get my head back out and my grandmother was getting panicked enough to think about going to the nearby auto repair shop to have someone bring a welding torch to free me. I think the very idea of that got me to find a way to (painfully) get my head free on my own....
Claus.
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Kurt Gardner
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 193
From: San Antonio, TX
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted March 08, 2009 11:19 AM
I too am enjoying the vinyl record renaissance. I have a Pro-Ject Debut III audiophile turntable and the bands I like and see in concert (Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, Dandy Warhols, Coldplay, Wilco, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Wilco, Killers, The Verve and Beck to name but a few), all have their new stuff available on vinyl. Usually they're 2-disc sets with deluxe packaging and there's a download code for a digital version of the album or a CD inside so you can take it on the road. I never buy CDs if the vinyl version is available.
I was smart and didn't throw away all of my vinyl during the CD revolution of the 1980s, so I still have much of my punk/new wave collection from the 1980s as well as some choice movie soundtracks. Playing them on vinyl takes you back to that time like a CD never could.
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