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Dan Lail
Film God

Posts: 2110
From: Loganville, Georgia, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted April 08, 2010 10:08 PM

I just listed a lot of sound home movies. These aren't you typical family and kids stuff. Also listed several halogen lamps and other supplies along with the usual trailers and films.

Thanks.

Link -
http://shop.ebay.com/danajerrye/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340

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Paul Spinks
Master Film Handler

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From: Barking, Essex, UK
Registered: Mar 2006

posted April 10, 2010 09:01 AM

It's amazing how good some home movies that come up for sale on ebay actually are. I recently bought about 400ft of amateur footage of someones holiday in Egypt in 1981. It was quite well filmed in sound at 18 fps, with very well done titles and Egyptian music over the titles. It was in glorious Kodachrome which looked stunning and featured Cairo, Memphis, Giza, Helwan, Luxor, Karnak, The Valley of the Kings, Aswan and Abu Simbel. We even hear the local tour guide explaining all the history to the unknown film maker's fellow travellers. I don't normally buy amateur home movies but I love all things Egyptian. I bought a projector last year from a chap in Eastbourne,UK, who speciallised in collecting old home movies. He had projectors in all the necessary guages and had some really lovely historic black and white stuff from the early 20th century on. Just ordinary folk and street scenes, but fascinating nevertheless. He identifies where all the footage was filmed and intends to release some DVD's of it all in the future. It is good that some of this stuff survives because there is so little footage of ordinary events and people. I buy a lot of second hand projectors and I often find 50ft reels of old movies in the boxes. It's mostly kids playing in the garden etc; but it is sad that people will just throw away their old family memories.

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Dan Lail
Film God

Posts: 2110
From: Loganville, Georgia, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted April 10, 2010 11:32 AM

Paul,

I too have silent home movies from the 1930's forward. Black and whites from the 1930's shot in New York are pretty cool. I have some kodachrome color footage of everyday life from the 1940's showing neighborhoods and cars. People cutting and clowning for the camera.

These sound home movies I have listed overall are not typical family films. I think the person filming is probably single. The sound is very clean and loud.

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Christian Bjorgen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 996
From: Kvinnherad, Norway
Registered: Oct 2009

posted April 11, 2010 04:50 AM

Tonight Show from 1960s, wow, that's amazing [Smile]

Too bad I'm on a money-diet, can't buy ANYTHING! [Wink]

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