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Topic: RARE version of "Spooks" (3D) up for sale on ebay!
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 25, 2018 10:37 AM
I thought I'd put this little gem up for sale on ebay, here is it ...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SPOOKS-Three-Stooges-3D-Standard-8mm-Special-edition-LOOK/323029458434
... and instead of re-typing everything, here is the description for it from the auction ...
OK, the history of this release ...
Columbia films, at some point, decided to cash in on the 3D craze by finally releasing one of the two Three Stooges 3D films for the home movie market, but what they chose to do was release two 50ft editions, digests of this film on eastman color stock in 3D with the classic red and blue glasses.
Now, what some savvy collector did in the past, was to take both 50ft editions and take them completely apart and re-organize all the footage so that it was in the original order of the original short. Thankfully, this person did not the tape splices, but the old cement splices, which is a good thing, as, eventually, most tape splices wear out.
Now, this runs approximately 4 and a half or 5 minutes, on a very full 100ft red reel. It has complete leader at the beginning and ending. Please note that it is on eastman film stock and so it does have some eastman color fade, but fortunately, I screened it last night and the 3D still works pretty good, no doubt, not as good when originally printed, but pretty good. The condition of the film is pretty good, as they are not scratched to heck. The sharpness is actually not too bad for one of these 3D films as well.
It's hard enuf to find one of these 50ft for sale, and even harder to find both, but to find them spliced together in proper order it's a "reel" hard find, to be sure!
all the best
OSI
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 27, 2018 11:45 AM
Luigi ...
I am very annoyed to have to say that I went onto ebay to revise this item, to add overseas shipping, and while it gave a lot of options, none of them are for overseas. When i started the auction I had "no oveerseas" but I looked for an option to cancel that restriction, and I can't find anything ...
does anyone else know how to allow overseas bidding on an existing auction? If i can't then overseas can't be done as i know that usually, if a person overseas wants to bid on an item, if no overseas option is open, it won't allow the person to bid, so I have to add overseas shipping.
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted January 29, 2018 12:01 PM
I'll try again for you Luigi ...
There was one thing I liked better about "Spooks" than the other 3D short, "Pardon My backfire" and that it the beginning of the film. "Pardon My backfire" has the stooges walking up with top hats and canes and they wave the canes towards the aucdience, (the 3D doesn't quite work well for that), where this one, "Spooks" has the neat element at the beginning of all three stooges walking towards the camera, Moe and Shemp stopping and Larry a good deal closer, which worked well in 3D.
OK, I went back into and selected "more options" under shipping and all it gave was more options for stateside, but none for overseas, and I looked to see if I could change overseas shipping or allowing overseas sales onto this item, but there's nothing. I'm rather annoyed and i apologize, Luigi. I'm thinking that when you list a film (at least these days, with the newer system they use for shipping), that you have to select an overseas option before listing it to enable overseas bidding. [ January 29, 2018, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Osi Osgood ]
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