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Topic: CineSea 9 Film Collectors Weekend in NJ May 3rd & 4th
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Douglas Meltzer
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Posts: 4554
From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted April 02, 2014 11:19 AM
The CineSea Film Collectors Weekend is one month away!
Beach, boardwalk, amusement park and.....tons of film.
I always look forward to this intimate gathering of people who love this hobby. Yes, there will be tables of equipment & film in gauges from 8mm to 35mm (actually, one dealer had 70mm trailers last time) along with nonstop screenings (pick any film in the room!) but the best part is hanging out and talking about film with fellow collectors.
Here are some pictures from CineSea 8, the CineSea 6 Video, and Claus' trailer from 2012.
Collector Paul Oscar will coming in from Reykjavík for his second time. I've heard from a number of long time attendees who will be back, which means another great group dinner!
Saturday, May 3rd & Sunday, May 4th, 2014
The Ocean Holiday Resort
6501 Ocean Avenue
Wildwood Crest, NJ 08260
609-729-2900 (mention "Film Show" to receive special rate of $65.00 per room)
Reserve early to get Oceanfront rooms with private balconies!
Admission: $5.00, free to those who are staying at the Ocean Holiday.
Hours: 10 AM – 5:30 PM, dinner break, continuous screenings late into the night, Sunday 9 - 2.
Dealers:
6 foot dealer tables are available for $20. You can rent as many as you like. The cost of a table is so low that if you've got any films you'd like to part with, get a table and bring them to the show.
Lou Franchetti will be there with stacks of 8mm and 16mm. To reserve a table you can email/PM me or Lou.
Directions:
From North; Garden State Parkway to Exit 4, follow Rio Grande Ave to end. Right on Ocean Ave. Follow to Ocean Holiday on left 6501 Ocean Ave. From West and South;Rt 76 (east) or Rt 95 (north) to Walt Whitman Bridge. Follow Rt. 42 to Atlantic City Expressway. Take Exit 7 (Garden St Parkway South) Follow same as north.
As always, thanks to John Black and Shorty Caruso who started CineSea back in 2009. The purpose was to give the collector an affordable show so that there's more money available for film. We honor John's memory by keeping the shows going.
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I think there's room for just one more film.....
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted April 17, 2014 12:28 PM
You really can’t talk a lot about CineSea without mentioning Wildwood and the Ocean Holiday too. These places definitely are a part of this experience.
Wildwood is the very essence of a Summer Town. It’s a place where middle class families take a week away from it all and have fun. It is amusement parks and minigolf and rental bikes and most of all the beach. It’s an interesting place because there is a great deal more living space there than residents: there is hotel after hotel all along the beach front. This is a funky town, so you can’t have hotels with names like “Ramada” and “Comfort Inn”, no, they are themed names like “Sahara” and “Adventurer” and “Crusader” and when you drive down Ocean Avenue at night they are lined up one after another, all spelled out in neon.
This is a town very firmly rooted in the 1950s. Bill Haley and the Comets first performed Rock around the Clock publicly in Wildwood in 1953, even before they’d recorded or broadcast it. Today, when you go into a diner, you are pretty likely to see 45s on the wall and hear Doo-Wop on a vintage juke box. In you love old cars you don’t need to wait very long for there to be one cruising up the street or maybe a whole bunch gathered at a car show up by Morey’s pier.
The Ocean Holiday fits in very well with this. It’s an old style beach hotel, back from the time when Dad loaded Mom and Kids into a (fake) wood-paneled station wagon and left that Midtown Manhattan job far behind for a week. This means most of the rooms are efficiency suites (so a family staying a week there can cook some of their own meals and not spend themselves into bankruptcy at the restaurants). There is a sundeck and picnic tables and a nice pool. If you select an “A” or “B” room you get a balcony overlooking the Atlantic.
It might surprise you to know that taken as it’s meant to be, this is not my kind of town. Back in 2007 we did a week of summer vacation on the Jersey Shore and spent a day in Wildwood. The place was wall to wall people. Unless you could stick your car in a back pocket, there was nothing to do with it because the parking was so tight. My normal ideal is peace and quiet and a great many of my favorite places involve a lot of trees and lakes . How I managed to find some peace and quiet in Wildwood was to come to CineSea in the low season and experience the place apart from the crowds.
We are always there very early or very late in the season. There is usually a tinge of winter in the air and despite that pool being ready for action most years I doubt any of us has even been ankle deep in it. The Ocean Holiday is in such a laid-back mood that the ladies at the desk know many of us by name and just might tell CineSea guests registering who else is already there. You can walk along the Ocean and hear nothing but waves and gulls. You can stroll the boardwalk and not feel like if you stop to look at something you will get swept along in a tide of people.
Sunday Morning the bunch of us walk up the street a few hotels to this nice little breakfast place. Even with 20 guys it’s still basically “sit where you want”. There is no hurry to eat your meal and get out because with the “crowds” as they are your seat will probably be pretty cool before it’s occupied again, so you sit and enjoy your breakfast and talk, maybe have a refill on your coffee and stay until the table is cleared.
Beyond the fact that our rooms would cost a multiple at the peak of season, I doubt CineSea would work as well as it does then. The mood could never be as relaxed and we’d certainly have to endure the scowls of about a hundred thousand perplexed teenagers passing through the show on their way to the beach.
-As it stands, it’s kind of “our place” and just time to take a step back and enjoy.
Poolside at the Ocean Holiday, Saturday Night during CineSea 8
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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