I was at the auction. I couldn't believe some of the prices that were realized. Some lots seemed very overpriced.
Franc > On Jun 29, 2016, at 3:40 PM, MnTwister > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
