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Posted by Kevin Hassall (Member # 2352) on December 11, 2014, 02:47 PM:

Watched a program on dave ja vu and it showed a garage full projectors cinema ones and portable ones and films wow some of the projectors were from 1908

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 11, 2014, 03:13 PM:

Interesting, I haven't seen this one.

-but the one I remember Frank found an old 16mm machine. He said "People love these for their media rooms.", but he didn't ask what they do basically every time they find something mechanical: "Does it work?".

-guess that doesn't matter if it's "Décor".

Did they seem interested this time?

Posted by Kevin Hassall (Member # 2352) on December 12, 2014, 02:04 PM:

It was great steve and there were films there too i noticed a ceretain film cape fear 16mm then they looked in the loft and found loads of bell and howell projectors

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 12, 2014, 02:15 PM:

Did they buy anything?

Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on December 12, 2014, 02:40 PM:

Just saw this episode on British TV today. The recently deceased collector sounded like he was an on-set projectionist. He had worked on CAPE FEAR running dailies. There was a stack of dailies for the film right there. Also a lot of 16mm film and yet the projectors were mostly 35mm Cinema machines from Century and others. The building they were in was a bit chaotic. I made a mental note to myself not to let my own collection get out of hand...

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 12, 2014, 02:48 PM:

I watch that show and sometimes I feel sorry for the families left behind when some of these collectors go to the big swap meet in the sky: basically nothing to do but dig a big hole and hire a couple of bulldozers!

It's all well and fine when you have a garage full of antique gas pumps and your heirs can sell them and put your grandkids though college, but then you have the entire barns full of broken furniture and collapsing under its weight.

You keep seeing some guy that's "clearing out" and he has 5 acres of junk:

"We had a good day today, I sold off five things!"

Let's hope he lives to 150 at that rate...

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on December 12, 2014, 04:28 PM:

Wish I had five acres of junk I just love film.

Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 1183) on December 16, 2014, 01:16 PM:

> The recently deceased collector sounded like he was an on-set projectionist.

This episode aired years ago here in the US.of.A. If memory serves me right, they paid too much for worthless junk and left the valuable stuff behind.

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