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Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on 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.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 02, 2014, 12:46 PM:

Operator(s) are standing by at the Ocean Holiday to accept your reservation!

I know this because I just got mine!

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on April 02, 2014, 01:48 PM:

Sure you will have great time...

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 02, 2014, 09:40 PM:

I'm sure we will!

This convocation, convention, conference, coagulation: whatever you want to call it, is actually a good thing.

It's not fancy: there are no celebrity appearances or dancing girls or symphony orchestras.

It's not huge: a couple of dozen of us at the most.

What it is is a chance to enjoy this hobby on a much bigger scale: to spend a weekend immersed in it among knowledgeable and appreciative people.

You learn things: little things like how to get the film to grab on those damn slotless reels, or what other people value in film collecting that you may never have considered before.

Most important: you relax and have some fun! Maybe Monday morning afterwards you sit down at your job and find your brain and your soul have shifted into a different gear and you feel better. I can't promise it will last forever, but what a great thing to have a weekend away from it all.

May 3rd & 4th

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on April 03, 2014, 07:33 AM:

Film Collectors events do really energise this hobby so all have a wonderful time and who knows you may find a rarity or two.
Happy days!

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on April 16, 2014, 10:57 AM:

Two weeks away!

I just heard from Steve Osborne at The Reel Image. He'll be sending over some new releases for us to screen, including the just from the lab Magoo Meets Frankenstein and CHC's Partly Cloudy.

I hope to see you there!

Doug

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on 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

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on April 17, 2014, 05:26 PM:

Even myself, an suitable presence, might add to the atmosphere

Posted by Louis Franchetti (Member # 2035) on April 19, 2014, 10:36 PM:

Hey Bob King of the Classic Image just sent me a box of "Classic Image" papers for the show, two weeks can't wait

Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on April 22, 2014, 06:29 AM:

I'll be there ..actually most likely on Thursday. If anyone else comes early, we might have film show in one of our rooms.
I'll have a couple of tables of films and things to sell. Can't wait, it's my favorite film meeting.

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on April 23, 2014, 04:57 AM:

Is it really - Shorty

Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on April 23, 2014, 06:27 AM:

Yes....really. And reely also.

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on April 23, 2014, 10:39 AM:

Wish I could make it. I was going to bring my last three low fade color optical airline prints of "Grizzly Adams."

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 23, 2014, 10:44 AM:

We'll miss you there Guy, but I really don't need yet another low fade optical Grizzly Adams! (They're using up all my Storage Space!)

[Big Grin]

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on April 23, 2014, 01:09 PM:

I am sure many Europeans are like me and wish they could attend this event.

Posted by Ernie Zahn (Member # 274) on April 23, 2014, 02:30 PM:

I just called and they said there was no need to reserve a room and that they don't take reservations. Are reservations only for those select balcony rooms? I'm not worried about a special room, I just want to make sure I can get one.

Posted by Louis Franchetti (Member # 2035) on April 23, 2014, 03:33 PM:

You need a reservation for a balcony for sure, I thought you need one for a room I guess not. Just be sure you say you are here for the show

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 23, 2014, 04:01 PM:

I suppose in the off-season we'd be pretty hard pressed to fill the place up, but don't we need at least 15 rooms booked to get the meeting area free?

Posted by Louis Franchetti (Member # 2035) on April 23, 2014, 04:07 PM:

I just spoke to Stephanie who works at the hotel and she said you can call tomorrow and make a reservation. She said though you don't really need one because they aren't booked.

Posted by Louis Franchetti (Member # 2035) on April 24, 2014, 03:15 AM:

Yes steve that is true, But we have not sold 15 rooms yet since we started

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on April 24, 2014, 05:20 AM:

we're trying

Posted by Kevin Hassall (Member # 2352) on April 24, 2014, 07:48 AM:

have great time guys wish i was there i envy you all these events are brill especialy if you are after a special film looking forward to seeing the photo's and the filming of the event by claus

Posted by Louis Franchetti (Member # 2035) on April 24, 2014, 09:35 AM:

This is my favorite show/ meeting of all
just the thought of hanging out talking film all weekend
is worth the wait

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on April 24, 2014, 10:04 AM:

I agree, this is a great show. I will be back in a year or so. Those who live in that region of the country really should go. I've been twice in the last two years and live 1,700 miles away.

Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on April 25, 2014, 07:21 AM:

It is my favorite weekend as well..and what we can't understand is why , with so many collectors living so close to the Wildwood area, why so few show up. It's amazing. They don't know what they are missing.

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on April 25, 2014, 09:48 AM:

The pool is about the only thing we dont have at the East Lancashire Film Fair! He [Big Grin]

Have a fantastic time girls and guys. [Cool]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 25, 2014, 09:58 AM:

This time of the year that pool is pretty...and pretty cold too!

(We should bring model boats!)

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on April 25, 2014, 03:26 PM:

Just received the new edition of "Classic Images" in the mail today. There was a nice story on the Cinefest in Syracuse. I also spotted the ad for the upcoming Cinesea in Wildwood.

It would be really great if someone in attendance this May submitted an article about Cinesea in a future publication. I'm sure the publisher, Bob King would be more than happy to include it and it might help increase attendance to this fine show even more.

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on April 25, 2014, 05:24 PM:

Then it is up to us, for enlightenment - Says so Shorty

Posted by Ernie Zahn (Member # 274) on April 30, 2014, 10:02 AM:

Does anyone own a print of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" It would be great to screen this in honor of Bob Hoskins aka Eddie Valiant who passed away yesterday.

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on April 30, 2014, 07:40 PM:

I don't have a copy but hopefully someone will bring a reel.

I'm planning to do DVD sync playback with the first reel of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the last reel of A Hard Day's Night. I'm also finishing up re-recording the Piccolo Young Frankenstein digest.

Doug

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on May 01, 2014, 01:52 AM:

Looking forward to seeing some photos and hopefully a bit of video...great thing this internet [Wink]

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on May 01, 2014, 03:25 PM:

Come on down and over to Wildwood everyone and anyone, make the work John Black and I started worthwhile - Shorty

Posted by Ernie Zahn (Member # 274) on May 01, 2014, 10:56 PM:

Looking forward to it.

Is anyone interested in:

Star Trek The Trouble with Tribbles
Third Man
Casablanca

I'm not selling but if there's an interest for screening then I'm happy to bring them.

Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on May 02, 2014, 07:16 AM:

Hey Ernie-

From my experience, whatever you bring and show, people will watch! There are usually at least 6 or 7 projectors (super 8 and 16)running simultaneously and we just jump from screen to screen, back and forth, taking it all in [Smile]

.

Really wish I could be there, but started a new job and am working weekends right now [Frown]

.

Everybody please have lots of fun for me! The weather should be great too [Cool]

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on May 04, 2014, 04:56 PM:

Well, interested in hearing a report on the Cinesea in Wildwood New Jersey; the Ocean Holiday Resort, better known as headquarters of America's only film only trade show.

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