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Nigel Higgins
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 543
From: Saffron walden.united kingdom
Registered: Jun 2014

posted March 09, 2018 09:46 AM

https://www.ebay.co .uk/itm/ORIGINAL-The-Shining-1980-16mm-Film-Reel-Box-Horror-Film-Movie-Prop-RARE-Old/192477822880?hash=item2cd0927fa0:g:T-IAAOSwaZdZvmHn
AUCTIONS LIKE THIS ARE PLAIN CRAZY YOU DONT EVERN GET A FILM HERE ,LETS ALL WRITE ON OUR OLD FILM CANS AND BOXES AND JUST MAYBE .

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted March 09, 2018 09:56 AM

Unbelievable.
£239 for an empty fibre transit case to hold a 16mm feature.
Further proof that eBay has now got many sellers who obviously live in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land.

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Mark Mander
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Dunstable ,Bedfordshire.
Registered: Jan 2005

posted March 09, 2018 10:30 AM

Not a bad idea,some of the crap I've been sent recently it may as well been an empty box,Mark

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Bill Phelps
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: USA
Registered: Jan 2009

posted March 09, 2018 10:56 AM

This was posted back in November in the eBay oddities section and I commented that I would only buy it if the film was in the box!

Do they think Stanley wrote on the box? [Smile]

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Kevin Clark
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 978
From: Bapchild, Kent, UK
Registered: May 2004

posted March 09, 2018 11:07 AM

It makes me wish Ebay would start pre-charging for sellers to list their items again rather than allowing for free listings - that would make the chancer sellers think twice before filling Ebay up with this sort of rubbish.

Kevin

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1785
From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted March 09, 2018 11:11 AM

I don't understand why, if it was used by the cameraman during shooting, it would be 16mm film. Surely all negatives and rushes then would have been 35mm.

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Kevin Clark
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 978
From: Bapchild, Kent, UK
Registered: May 2004

posted March 09, 2018 11:21 AM

I have a few similar film boxes - these were used by film hire libraries to send and receive prints from hirers - just off to buy a black Sharpie pen and write the name of a classic movie on mine to create a bit of interest if auctioned - I'm only joking that sort of dishonesty is not for me at all but other than the scrawled film title on the box what is the real poof of the box origins?

Kevin

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Nigel Higgins
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 543
From: Saffron walden.united kingdom
Registered: Jun 2014

posted March 09, 2018 12:00 PM

Yes kevin was only joking too it is dishonest ,i doubt that box is the real thing ,madness

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted March 09, 2018 12:14 PM

OK, I really want someone to bid on this, just to imagine they're shock when they get it in the mail, (subversive OSI here! [Smile]

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Joe Caruso
Film God

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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 09, 2018 12:31 PM

Items like this (provided there is accompanying documentation), really belong under the Sotheby umbrella, if at all legit - Alas, working with choice cardboard cartons and some plastic, if these were signed by certain celebrated people or relatives thereof, then persuaded one might be - Otherwise, move on - Shorty

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Tom Photiou
Film God

Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted March 10, 2018 11:53 AM

Get on, You know me, i hsve to ask this lunatic a question, here it is, i will let you know if i get a reply,

"Hello,
I need to ask you if this price is correct as all you are selling is a box that a copy of the film would have been supplied in, you may not realise this but this is not rare. If the movie was also in the box it would be, this is just a box, so my question is, is the price correct or is it meant to be $23.
I have been a film collector for 40 years and have never had the urge to buy an empty film box. I just need to be certain of the price before i bid.

[Big Grin]

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David Baker
Expert Film Handler

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From: Hamilton , Ohio
Registered: Aug 2012

posted March 10, 2018 12:23 PM

So , Tom , he's accepting offers . Why don't you make an offer of 1 pound for it ? Upon checking out all his other items , it appears he believes ALL his stuff is " Props " , including black & white pics of screen stars .

Just another person trying to " cash in " on the film collector's hobby .
MEH !!

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Tom Photiou
Film God

Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted March 10, 2018 12:37 PM

I may win it and waste a pound [Big Grin]

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Simon Balderston
Expert Film Handler

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From: North Lincolnshire, UK
Registered: Nov 2015

posted March 10, 2018 12:39 PM

its not the first time its been on

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Nigel Higgins
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 543
From: Saffron walden.united kingdom
Registered: Jun 2014

posted March 10, 2018 12:40 PM

Bit like this one
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/16mm-Feature-Film-MAN-IN-A-DINGHY/123007174427?hash=item1ca3cc871b:g:4xcAAOSwcLxYElFG
i just wish someone would buy it fed up of seeing it on ebay .

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David Hardy
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 955
From: Johnshaven Village , Montrose, Scotland
Registered: Jan 2015

posted March 11, 2018 07:14 AM

What the hell is going on here ? That asking price for a fibre film transit case !

If anyone buys this regardless who is claimed to have owned and where it is alluded to have came from are really in need of some help. I smell snake oil ! [Big Grin]

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David Ollerearnshaw
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1373
From: Penistone Sheffield UK
Registered: Oct 2012

posted March 11, 2018 12:45 PM

My mum has a prop she uses it when hanging out the washing. [Big Grin]

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David Hardy
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 955
From: Johnshaven Village , Montrose, Scotland
Registered: Jan 2015

posted March 16, 2018 08:47 AM

It seems to me that this box is just an ordinary box.

The code the seller mentions is shorthand for a film print copy number.

Cy 41 written on the box means Copy number 41.

and also 36 in biro pen

It may have contained only reels 1-4 in the box and it was quite a common practice to send out an exhibition print in two small boxes here in the UK at one time.

Quite a common practice in the film exhibition industry.

Also it was a 16mm film print its hardly to do with the film production as it was filmed on 35mm film not 16mm.

However the box may have belonged to the guy anyway but I am sceptical as to the seller and even auctioneers claims as to its film production involvement.

The box size of 15 inches square for me confirms it is only an empty box that once held The Shining 16mm feature. Copy 41.
Reels 1-4 .

Just the right size to hold 4 x 1600' spools in cans.

So buyer beware !

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