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Joe Taffis
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1592
From: United States
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 17, 2010 06:29 PM

Any SERIOUS offers for the 5X400' RED FOX feature? The HERITAGE 200 footer is already up to $92.00 on eBay! E-mail me.... I could ship tomorrow. Thanks [Wink]

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Joe Taffis

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John W. Black
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Deptford,N.J.
Registered: Mar 2008

posted October 17, 2010 10:58 PM

Thats amazing!!!

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Brian Hendel
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: New York, New York
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 17, 2010 11:32 PM

It went for $122... and it was the silent one! Made me think of parting with mine... but the artwork is too cool to let it go.

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Michael O'Regan
Film God

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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted October 18, 2010 02:22 AM

...for a 200ft silent edit?????

Ridiculous!

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Pasquale DAlessio
Film God

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From: Bristol,RI, USA
Registered: May 2010

posted October 19, 2010 06:51 PM

I have the Heritage 200' in Ultra 8mm sound. I can't believe somebody paid that much for a 200' reel. Maybe I should list mine?

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Joe McAllister
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 179
From: London England
Registered: May 2007

posted October 25, 2010 07:04 AM

I've noticed on a couple of occasions when not so rare movies like "Plan9" cut downs are "won" for silly amounts on eBay that they turn up again " relisted due to time wasters" not long after.

The 200' silent release appears regularly on eBay UK and usually goes for under £10/ $17. However the Heritage/Mountain feature release rarely turns up so may command a good price. Although it can't be that rare as it was a best seller from the early '60's until the late '70's even before it attained it's cult statue from the 50 worst movie list.

By the way the original countdown leaders have the "Grave Robbers From Outer Space"
title scratched in.

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 25, 2010 09:39 AM

Guys, can you provide the link for that very Plan 9 with a silly price we are discussing here, please.

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Pasquale DAlessio
Film God

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From: Bristol,RI, USA
Registered: May 2010

posted October 25, 2010 01:45 PM

Joe

Great info. I just checked my copy. It has the Grave Robbers on it. It's Heritage 8mm Ultra-Sonic Sound on a very full 200' reel. That's the fun of collecting! [Wink]

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John Skujins
Expert Film Handler

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From: Greensboro, NC, USA
Registered: Mar 2009

posted October 25, 2010 02:27 PM

Winbert, here you go

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-PLAN-9-OUTER-SPACE-SUPER-8-FILM-BOX-/260676520006?pt=US_Film&hash=item3cb1880846

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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

posted October 25, 2010 02:37 PM

Amazing!

$122 for a 200' digest of a feature that probably cost $98 to make in the first place!

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 26, 2010 10:43 AM

I found that the very seller has a very good luck quite often.

See his completed items or his previous feedback. He sold 200" Saturday Night Fever for $50 where normally we pay $40s for 3 x 400.

Or the other 200 feet for above $60.

I think that is the art of selling and he has that skill very good!.

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Joe Taffis
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: United States
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 26, 2010 04:59 PM

His/her key(at least to this auction)was not to post actual screen shots(stated so in description), but sharp pics from elsewhere....pretty clever [Wink]

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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

posted October 26, 2010 05:46 PM

I'll have to say: Plan 9 From Outer Space has provided me many hours of entertainment even though I've never had a print and haven't seen it in easily 20 years.

All I need to do is read a review of it and how enthusiastically crappy it was and I have a good laugh. Poor Ed Wood knew all he needed to know about the mechanics of making movies but he just had no sense of what was good or bad on screen.

Stanley Kubrick was notorious for doing take after take after take. He literally reduced Shelly Duvall to tears from grinding over the same 30 second scene literally dozens of times while filming The Shining. Ed Wood on the other hand rarely had a second take and would move onto the next scene while the other people on set were asking "Shouldn't we reshoot that?".

-He never let a deficit of talent stop him for a minute. If passion alone was talent, Ed Wood would have been Orson Welles.

I think after all the satisfaction this man has given me, I really should get a copy of this film.

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John W. Black
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Deptford,N.J.
Registered: Mar 2008

posted October 26, 2010 09:07 PM

I sold a Red Fox print on ebay a couple of years ago for about $150.

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