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The seller "projectorfilm-aholic,", is selling films with the statement " never on ebay before " at highly elevated prices, when I know for a fact that "Tricks of Our Trade" (Disney), and "Monsters: Hollywood and the Stars" I have seen before on ebay. Now, it's been a few years or more since I have seen these specific titles on ebay, but they have most certainly been up on ebay before. Please note that I didn't check all of his/her auctions. To give the seller the benefit of the doubt, perhaps, in his perusal of ebay, he may have not seen them listed, but they have most certainly been listed on ebay before. In the case of "Monsters : Hollywood and the Stars", I know for a fact that it has been listed before, as I had bid on it, and didn't win it. It was won for 36.25, US dollars. I take it hard when I win something and don't win it. The "Tricks" reel I just remember seeing on ebay.
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I should add that I know for a fact that I had seen "Monsters: Hollywood and the Stars" on ebay before, years ago as I had bid on it, and not won it. -
Maybe „never on ebay before“ is short for „never on ebay before in a bad condition like this“?!
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I say that was a "typical" eBay seller, rather than a "curious" one.
Ask the seller if he knows that eBay is now 29 years old and if he searched their archive going back that far.
I got another typical stupid reply today from a seller I asked about the color on a film -- "Sorry, but this is just some films I picked up at an Estate sale. Never watched them." Duh, duh, which way did they go?
Another jack is trying to sell a projector for $1800 -- 1 pic -- can't even see the projector since its covered , but cover does say Elmo. No mention in description about what model it is. He calls it a "super 8 film projecting machine." I don't no nothing about these newfangled machines.Comment
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Hi Osi - We have sold 2 copies of Monsters - Hollywood and the Stars on Ebay in the last 12 months. That title comes into stock fairly regularly so your memory is correct
BR
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I actually bought one this month. It does turn up quite often. It is also the edited version. The full length is 600ft the 400ft from memory cuts out the b movies and sci fi.Comment
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This fellow is also currently selling a 7X400ft Ben Hur feature. He honestly states that it is missing reel 1, but states it to be the " Long sought after Kempski print". He doesn't mention a need for a scope lense, stating that it is a flat print. Correct me if I am wrong folks, but weren't all Kempski prints of Ben Hur in scope?Comment
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Without bothering to google -- what's a "Kempski" print?Comment
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Brian,
From Eberhard Nuffer's post back in 2006:
Dietrich Kempski was in the Super 8 business from 1972 on and was one of the people responsible for the introduction of Cinemascope for super-8 - in a time when all 8mm releases of scope movies were printed in pan-scan or letterbox versions. Initially his company was called "Cineton AV Electronics", but later he changed the name into "Scoptimax". For a couple of years, Kempski sold scope releases issued by other manufacturers - especially Animex Inc. in New York (owner of the patented Cineavision-Scope-System) was a close collaborator. When Animex' owner, Dr. van Tetering, died in 1983 and his company closed, Kempski released full-length scope films on his own: The first Kempski release, "West Side Story", was an MGM production as were all further Kempski feature releases. The other films were: "Logan's Run", "Poltergeist", "Doctor Zhivago", "Brainstorm", "The Fearless Vampire Killers/Dance of the Vampires", "2010- The Year We Make Contact", "Ben-Hur", "Soylent Green", "Poltergeist II". Another two films were released in a very small print run of 12 on reversal stock only: "How the West Was Won" (only first half of it: 5x400ft) and "Shaft's Big Score". Kempski's last release was "Mutiny on the Bounty" in 1988. All films were offered in German and English version; some of them even in French. Kempski planned a few other scope-releases such as "Ryan's Daughter" and "Dances With Wolves" in the 1990's, but as his films were so expensive and he was waiting for advance orders, none of them made their way to 8mm. In the 1990's, his negatives went to Derann, where all Kempski-films were re-printed (and sold for much less than in Germany)
Apart from selling his 8mm scope movies and reel extension systems, Kempski-Scoptimax was also distributor of KOWA anamorphic lenses and Fumeo projectors (I remember his presentations with a 500-watt Fumeo Xenon on Lumiere Filmclub meetings in Alsfeld in the 1990's - the projected picture really looked like in a big movie theatre).
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Then, the print he is offering is the flat Ben Hur, which I believe was offered by Ken Films, who did release a few MGM full length prints?Comment
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Thanks Douglas.Comment
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