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Topic: That Valerie Bertinelli Moment
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Steve Klare
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Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 19, 2016 09:05 AM
One of the things I love about collecting films is I keep running into these moments where I get confronted with an opportunity that is so wonderful I don't believe it.
I had several at CineSea where a print I'd been looking for for years popped up right in front of me at a reasonable price and I absolutely couldn't believe it! You start to question if there is something disturbingly wrong with the film or maybe just your own grip on reality, but with trembling hands you fork over the cash and spend the rest of the day saying "yes!, yes!, yes!.." (at least to yourself...).
It's as if I was 16 years old and Mom yelled up the stairs "Valerie Bertinelli is here, she wants to go out on a date with you. The limo is waiting."
(Eddie Van Halen....don't make me laugh!)
It happened again the other day.
You see, right around the time I had that...certain interest in Miss Bertinelli, I was a fairly new film collector: all silents, all railroad films. Brand new prints were a check in an envelope away and with what resources a high school kid could scrape together I bought one or two every couple of months.
I decided one month to buy a print of "The Complete Silverton". This was a professionally produced film of the Denver and Rio Grande passenger excursion operating in the Canyon of the Animas River in Colorado. It's a steam powered narrow gauge train clinging to canyon walls 400 feet up. It's still there and riding it for real is definitely on my bucket list.
The choices were silent for about 30 bucks or sound for about 5 dollars more. I didn't have a sound projector: it seemed like a no-brainer.
About twenty years later I got into sound and I've been kicking my teenage brain ever since!
The other day it was E-bay, buy it now for 10 bucks...with SOUND!
I started to imaging all the things that could be wrong with it: "it's scratched, it's faded, it spent the last 20 years at the bottom of a chicken coop and it smells funny."
-but I forced myself to buy it anyway. I figured at least if I had the soundtrack I could stripe and record my silent.
Turns out to be a really spectacular print: better color than my silent and from the cut of the leader I think I may be the first to ever project it!
Yes!, yes!, yes!..
That's why I never discourage Osi in his eternal quest for Grizzly Adams. It just may happen someday, you just can't ever give up, and the day opportunity knocks, you have to stop yourself from making excuses and click that "Buy it Now" before somebody that wants it a tenth as much as you do beats you to it.
-you may even need to risk the chicken coop scenario!
As for Valerie Bertinelli: she had her chance! If she shows up now my wife will send her packing!
Carpe Diem!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted July 19, 2016 11:19 AM
Great Story!
... and I never lose hope in my obsession and obtaining a decent print of "Grizzly Adams". As I've stated a number of times, it takes the right collector, and the right storage circumstances to have at least a decent print of the desired title, no matter the stock, (as my lovely print of "Conduct Becoming" is a testament to, and that one took nearly 7 years).
I'm sure that there is some wonderful ole grizzled collector who has one, or some young buck has obtained they're dead grandfathers collection, and they'll list it on ebay at the most unexpected time ...
(right when were on vacation for days on end ... EGAD!!! That happened to me once!)
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted July 20, 2016 11:35 AM
GOSH! I swear that someone out there has a funny sense of humor! I was watching this morning a early 1960's black and white live concert film that was released to theaters with a stellar line-up. it's a classic, with The beach Boys, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Jan and Dean, The Supremes, ect.
anyhow ... they had some great background dancers for the film and who was one of them?
YEP!! a very young Teri Garr, strutting her stuff!! The funny thing was that I never even knew she was an actress until i saw CE3K, and then remembered her brilliant work in "Young Frankenstein ...
" Puut ... Zee ... Candell ... Beck!!! "
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 21, 2016 06:04 AM
I went to the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
-motto: "Two, Four, Six, Eight: We spend much less to graduate! We're big, we're cheap, our lecturers will make you sleep!"
"Assignment Earth" actually was the pilot for a spin-off series, but the network didn't go for it.
"That Miss Lincoln, is simply my cat."
(Rowr!)
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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