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Phils review is a perfect outlook at what I felt I saw in The HERITAGE
catalog
Ive seen many many catalogs from Christies, Sothebys, Bonham, Phillips,
Hershenson.
and many more .. This is a concise, attractive and historically significant
piece of Movie memorabilie history documentation. Any dealer or Pop culture
historian should have one in thier library as this will be spoken about
for years o come as a benchmark auction.
even if you do ot attend the auction it may be a excellent purchase
to do future research with and to follow the trends in sales with... I
bet the other auction Guys have One!
call heritage and get one of these Beautys. and May The Jonny
Ramone sale Rock Your pants off!
best, Tom
Phil Edwards Cinema Arts wrote:
I just
received the Heritage catalogue. Just as a movie poster book it's an absolute
"must-have", with many rare items (as in rarely seen) among some old auction
"regulars". I'm not going to get into
any of this debate about buyers and sellers premiums (standard for
any major auction house) because all the details are spelled out in the
bidding info. Ditto the FRANKENSTEIN 22x28 restoration issues... there
is a description and I don't think anybody seriously considering a bid
on this piece isn't going to ask more detailed questions about it before
dropping $25k on the table... unless of course they have more money than
common sense or are happy with the catalogue description. But it's all
spelled out right there, and there is plenty of time before bidding ends
to find out anything extra one wants to know before placing a bid.
I was please to see several interesting Australian
items included. Australian collectors and dealers will know how rare at
least one of them actually is! As an auction
offering and catalogue it's a good job all round. The catalogue will prove
a very useful visual reference for years to come. I think the auction results
will show just how much longevity as valued collectibles some of the older
stars featured are outside their iconographic films. If
you aren't happy with the way any particular auction house or seller does
business, then no one is twisting an arm to make one place a bid.
As is always the case with any auction run by
anybody, anywhere - decide in advance what the top price is you want to
pay for an item and bid it - at the end.Regards,Phil Phil Edwards
Cinema Arts
26 Vista Avenue
Soldiers Point
NSW 2317
AUSTRALIA E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 3:46
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Recording Audio
Just listening to only the soundtrack from the right movie can be
loads of fun. I first discovered this with the original film version of
THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD. I was laid up in bed with a back injury and couldn't
turn over easily. I happened to be lying facing away from the TV when THE
THING came on a late-night local station. I just lay there facing a blank
wall and listened to it and was amazed to discover that the dialog and
sound effects were so strong -- and the directing and pacing so tight --
that it played beautifully as an old-style radio drama and that I didn't
need the pictures at all. It's hard for younger people to truly get the
idea that it wasn't so long ago that you could NOT watch any movie you
wanted in your home at your whim. No, it used to be that you either saw
it at the theater for the week or two it was showing in your town -- or
just waited until the movie finally came to TV (which took about 3 to 5
years from the time a film was released). If you missed the movie the night
it aired on your local station, you were just out of luck. You had to wait
until it aired again... which could be months or years... if it ever did.
That was it -- that was the only way to watch movies (unless you had your
own film projector). I purchased the very first commercial model VCR the
day it hit the shelves -- and there were no pre-recorded tapes of movies
available for it. None. There was only blank tape (and it was fairly expensive).
The idea was that you would record the shows off-the-air (or cable if you
had it). It actually took a couple of years for them to realize that they
could start selling movies on video tape cassettes to the general public.
The first to appear were incredibly expensive -- priced between $79 and
$129 each! For one movie! Hard to believe, I know, but true. Video tape
rental stores took another year or two to appear in most towns. And this
wasn't back in the caveman days, folks -- this was after STAR WARS was
released -- in 1978, a mere 27 years ago! -- JR ----- Original Message
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 19:45
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Recording Audio
> HI from Joe B.
A friend of mine was a drive-in theatre projectionist in the 60s.
He dubbed the entire soundtrack of Gone With the Wind onto an eight-track
tape for us. You could listen and be as drawn in as if you were in
the theatre. Just like radio drama.
It just goes to show you the effect a well-performed good script can
have on a listener-- even without the picture.
Best,
Joe
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