8mm Forum: You Don't Even Get The Film

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Posted by Nigel Higgins (Member # 4312) on 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 .

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on 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.

Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on 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

Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on 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]

Posted by Kevin Clark (Member # 211) on 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

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on 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.

Posted by Kevin Clark (Member # 211) on 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

Posted by Nigel Higgins (Member # 4312) on March 09, 2018, 12:00 PM:

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

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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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Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on 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

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on 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]

Posted by David Baker (Member # 3259) on 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 !!

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on March 10, 2018, 12:37 PM:

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

Posted by Simon Balderston (Member # 5106) on March 10, 2018, 12:39 PM:

its not the first time its been on

Posted by Nigel Higgins (Member # 4312) on 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 .

Posted by David Hardy (Member # 4628) on 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]

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on March 11, 2018, 12:45 PM:

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

Posted by David Hardy (Member # 4628) on 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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