Wow what an auction at Profiles in History, sets of 100,000 stills went for
$40,000. They had a "lot" of 70,000 negatives and transparencies, 4,000 lobby
cards, it was great to watch the first day with the memorabilia.
I was lucky to win the lot of 400+ pressbooks (there were actually 447), and I
had gone down there to see the lot, so many were in such good shape with no
folds, all uncut so I am very excited.
There are pressbooks for 2 reissues of Wizard of Oz, 8 early Bogarts, several
Goldiggers of 19'', Meet me in St. Louis, Top Hat, House and Ghost of
Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, High Noon, about 6 30's
and 40's Bette Davis, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Miracle on 34th Street, Ziegfeld
Girl, Scarface (32), The 39 Steps, The Great Ziegfeld, Disney's Make Mine Music
and Silly Symphonies and the first reissue of Snow White, It Happened One
Night, When Worlds Collide, Goldfinger, Roxy Hart, 1st "Cleopatra," All Quiet
on the Western Front, Bells of St. Mary's, Sergeant York, Footlight Parade,
Stagecoach (39), Captain Blood, Thief of Bagdad, Sunset Boulevard, Laura, Way
Out West, Forbidden Planet, North by Northwest, Dr. Cyclops, City Lights, The
Searchers, Day the Earth Stood Still, Night at the Opera, War of the Worlds,
Flying down to Rio, Lost Horizon, Rebecca, Follow the Fleet, Beast from 20,000
Fathoms, Rio Grande, I Married a Witch, Death takes a Holiday, Gunga Din, Fort
Apache, Gilda, Cover Girl, One Million BC (1940), Shadow of a Doubt, Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes, Lloyds of London, Freaks, African Queen, Stella Dallas, 42nd
Street, Destination Moon, Best Years of our Lives, To Catch a Thief, Last of
the Mohicans, Beau Geste (39), Captain Blood, Mary of Scotland and so many more
(Those are the ones I wrote down when I was there).
and so many more. Why they didn't show these titles in the auction catalog is
way beyond me, some were much better than the single photo they showed in the
catalog. I don't get it. I can't wait to look through these.
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