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Topic: Rare or Not? That is the Question
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Tony Stucchio
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 625
From: New Jersey
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted February 26, 2006 06:43 PM
If you believe eBay sellers, HAVE BADGE WILL CHASE and NO INDIANS, PLEASE are rare. Do a search on these titles now in eBay and you will see how "rare" they are! :-)
Truly rare items are as follows in Super 8, all with Laurel & Hardy, just to name a few:
FRA DIAVOLO (Red Fox, full-length feature) BONNIE SCOTLAND (Red Fox, full-length feature) UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE (Blackhawk 2-reeler, sound version) BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (Blackhawk, not quite a 2-reeler, but the version that includes the boxing scene as well as the pie fight) Any Blackhawk L&H silent with the original Vitaphone track SAILORS BEWARE (different distributors) SLIPPING WIVES LOVE'EM AND WEEP(Blackhawk)
Also: Any Thelma Todd 2-reeler from her series (as opposed to L&H) Most Charley Chase 2-reelers (though more and more have been showing up lately) Chaplin films released by RBC (last week CITY LIGHTS sold for over $200)
BTW, most of the above is rare in any format (inlcuding VHS and DVD). Why are they rare? Try your hand at getting some of these on eBay. When they do show up, they will get top $.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 27, 2006 12:02 PM
I would also add many of the optical sound super 8 features, as while these were, to an extant legally sold, (Derrann, for instance) the fact that these survived into private hands is quite great indeed. Every once in a while I'm still running into many a rarity in optical sound.
I have the short 5 minute version of Battle of the Century/Pie Fight, but I've never seen the one with the boxing match as well, that must have been a rather late release by Blackhawk.
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