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John Edwards
Film Handler

Posts: 51
From: Harrow-Weald
Registered: Oct 2008

posted May 23, 2010 10:11 PM

read in the sunday mail or the mirror some guy brought a can of 35mm nitrate film for £3.20 on ebay it was a rare charlie chaplin film made in 1916 had an offer for it of £900.000 and said im not in any hurry to sell could be worth over £1.000.000 now thats what i call an ebay bargain.eddie. [Eek!]

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Ian O'Reilly
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 737
From: London
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 24, 2010 03:54 AM

I think the Guy is just being GREEDY [Eek!]

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Gian Luca Mario Loncrini
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1948
From: Verona (Italy)
Registered: Jan 2009

posted May 25, 2010 06:52 AM

Sometimes the opposite had happened to me. Some movies were sold for SO HIGH PRICES.

And the the real value (and condition...) were absolutely so poor [Confused]

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Lots (not all of them, thanks God!) of Italian collectors really specialize in doing this. Buying for 1, using, using, using. And then re-selling for 5 (and stating NEAR MINT AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION) [Roll Eyes]

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[ May 25, 2010, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: Gian Luca Mario Loncrini ]

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Bruce Calvert
Junior
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From: Plano, TX USA
Registered: Nov 2004

posted May 25, 2010 09:51 PM

The guy is a fool. ZAPPED is a curiosity, but it only contains snippets of Chaplin from other films. If someone really did offer him that much for the film, he should have taken it.

All this story really does is make anybody who finds an old nitrate film think that they have discovered a fortune. In reality, they have found some thing that is culturally important, but not really worth that much. Other than archives, there are very few people in the world that still collect nitrate film.

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Damien Taylor
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 111
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Oct 2008

posted May 26, 2010 12:12 AM

From my own experience of buying 35mm off eBay, "Mystery reels" always end up being porn.

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Bruce Calvert
Junior
Posts: 21
From: Plano, TX USA
Registered: Nov 2004

posted May 27, 2010 03:35 PM

I bought a couple of 35mm nitrate reels on eBay several years ago. They turned out to be an abridgement of an early Tom Mix feature. Although the film A CHILD OF THE PRARIE had been sold on 8mm and 16mm, I ended up donating the film to the Library of Congress since they did not have have a copy.

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