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Douglas Warren
Master Film Handler

Posts: 282
From: West Chester, OH, USA
Registered: Feb 2008

posted December 20, 2014 06:34 AM

I came across this one during a recent search on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181613301862?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=ST RK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

The seller's description is interesting in itself.A tad morbid but each to their own I suppose.

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Dominique De Bast
Film God

Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted December 20, 2014 07:05 AM

Morbid is the right word for that !

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 20, 2014 07:52 AM

Let's hope there's some punctuation missing between "Funerals" and "Family Fun".

Can you imagine the guy walking up to the funeral director and asking where he could plug his movie light in?

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Douglas Warren
Master Film Handler

Posts: 282
From: West Chester, OH, USA
Registered: Feb 2008

posted December 20, 2014 08:07 AM

It's certainly one of the stranger listings of 8mm home movies I have come across on eBay!

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Guy Taylor, Jr.
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 606
From: Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.
Registered: Mar 2007

posted December 20, 2014 09:12 AM

That is really rather sick. I know that it was not uncommon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to take photos of the dead before they wore buried but not in the 50s or 60s. I just can't imagine someone doing this.

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 20, 2014 06:22 PM

The reason people took funeral pictures back a hundred years ago was with the cost of photography it was likely to be the only picture a family ever got of a loved one.

-not the way I would choose to be remembered.

Bringing a movie camera is just taking it to another level.

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Dominique De Bast
Film God

Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted December 20, 2014 06:54 PM

By the way, such an ad would not have been admitted on EBay Belgium.

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