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Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on September 06, 2015, 09:51 PM:

I've just finished catching up on watching some Standard 8mm films I've bought,now I will start on my Super8 film collection that I have bought over the last year or so!
As you can see it is going to take a while - they are in the 2 clear storage bins!
The orange box has 9.5mm films (and the 8mmft reels in the tins) plus the same amount again in a box elsewhere - these 9.5mm's were mostly given to me recently (just cost me a drive to collect them)

It's a great hobby with still a wealth of films available to collect but when you get behind look what happens [Smile]

Am I the only one who's in this situation? I need a few weeks off work to catch up ! That would be BLISS [Smile]

Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on September 07, 2015, 08:44 AM:

No you are not alone! I have a ton of 8mm and 16mm films to watch. I just spent a couple days on the editing bench inspecting and cleaning stuff and it's all stacked at my projectors ready to watch. I enjoy the time on the rewinds though....making nice covers, cleaning up the cans etc.

Bill [Smile]

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 07, 2015, 01:27 PM:

I'm in the same case : films to Watch (clean, respool on larger reels...), projectors to check and fix, films to strip and so on.

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on September 09, 2015, 06:56 PM:

and just bought on 16mm The Adv. Of Captain Marvel 12 Chapters!
More to get too [Smile]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 11, 2015, 12:38 PM:

TOOO many films to watch, and not enuf time ...

However, these days are getting shorter and that precious darkness is getting LONGER!!!! Yay!

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on September 11, 2015, 12:59 PM:

It's how collecting is these days: back when you could buy these new out of a catalog, maybe once a month or so you picked one and as soon as it got halfway dark that night you screened it.

These days? If you see five films you really like you do what you can to buy 'em all!

-the opportunity may never come again!

I "stopped" collecting films in the 80s and restarted in the early 2000s (-after some say film collecting "died" as a hobby?)

I have ten times as many now as then and they come quite heavily some times!

a couple of years ago I hit "Buy it Now" on a 1200 ft Star Trek "Space Seed" and I was already over budget for that month. Then I noticed the seller also had "The African Queen" feature length.

("Oh Crap, Ohhhhh CRAP!")

-and I did what I knew I had to...(you only live once....unless you are Sean Connery!)

The funny thing is I literally never plan to buy another film.

-I know I will buy many films, but when you have no idea what's going to become available and when, how on earth are you supposed to plan?

(Watch out! CineSea is next month! It's like going fishing: you have no idea what you will hook!)

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 11, 2015, 01:47 PM:

Very true Steve ...

I am officially done collecting, except for the odd feature ...

Then I see something on ebay and once again, I proclaim ...

"Holy Crap! (is there such a thing?!) I didn't know that existed on super 8?!"

... and I'm off again!

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on September 11, 2015, 01:56 PM:

To me it's more like this...

I don't plan on buying any films today. I'm not looking for any, and I have no titles banging around my skull at the moment to buy. (I'm almost on a "diet" here: remember, I'm going to a convention in a few weeks!)

-10 minutes from now I may get an e-mail from a film-friend ("Did you see...this?") or an E-bay alert for something I was looking for ten years ago and:

-Let the games beginnnnnn!

(It's almost like THEY are looking for YOU!)

Collecting films is almost easy!

-Getting decent ones, taking good care of them and finding places to put them all, there's a challenge!

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on September 11, 2015, 03:55 PM:

Its funny how things work out.

You can spend years looking for certain films while your interest is running on overdrive...then when you say that's it with collecting "enough" its time to lead a normal life. The films pop up all over the place, your heart begins you race, your mind is confused, you have a panic attack...a voice in your head says what should I do? [Big Grin]

.....but you said no more...I cant help it... must buy.. must buy... [Big Grin]

....sad eh! [Wink]

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on September 11, 2015, 05:50 PM:

i suppose the secret is, not to lose interest in the first place.

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on September 12, 2015, 07:11 PM:

I'm sure everyone can relate this .... I am starting to get through the films and have bids on more!!!! [Smile]

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on September 13, 2015, 08:13 AM:

selling anything? - cheers, Shorty

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on September 13, 2015, 07:33 PM:

Sometimes I do sell them but only if I have it already or it came with others I wanted but that film I didn't want.
I am selling a few super8 films on trademe in N.Z. as I got them with others and if I sell some I can then pay for a 16mm serial of 12 chapters I've already won!
Sort of a trade up I guess [Smile]

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 13, 2015, 07:40 PM:

I can see if you buy collections of films where screening all of them right away is unrealistic. I have a budget each month for films and equipment and I generally go over it [Frown]

I'm mostly a one-at-a-time buyer, because this hobby can be expensive so I have to be selective in my purchases. I usually screen a film as soon as I get it in case there's a problem. I have a projector arriving on Tuesday and a film on Friday (Yes I'm over budget this month already). It's always exciting to get something new to watch.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on September 13, 2015, 08:02 PM:

I came home from Wildwood a few times ago with two features.

I like to watch them a reel a night, but I didn't want to wait a week to start the second one so I did a reel of each every night in kind of a five day double feature.

(What a great week that was!)

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on December 03, 2015, 02:02 AM:

Well 3 months has gone by and I have made progress [Smile]

I've emptied the top large container and kept some and sold a good chunk of them,made some money to.........buy more lol
Moving onto the bottom storage container next .... Oh after I screen 4 x 16mm films I recently bought ... It never ends .... happily [Smile]

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on December 07, 2015, 04:56 AM:

Its endless Clinton [Cool]

Have something like 30 16mm features to run, 76 reels of 9-5 sound and 98 Super 8 sound films to inspect, all for someone else cripes! [Eek!]

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on December 08, 2015, 07:01 PM:

Geezzz Lee I have got it good then,at least I have only myself waiting to watch films!

I spent a few nights last week screening Standard 8mm films that I won in a box so I could decide what to keep and what to sell!

I then put them on the NZ auction site Trademe.co.nz and sold all I listed,well worth it as I paid NZ$50 for the box of films and individually sold them for a total of over NZ$100 [Smile]

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