Maybe they didn’t want to go through the “hassle” of going through the six coffin-sized tupperware containers that housed them. I went through them as when they were at Marvin’s (at a glacial pace)I was lucky to be able to “find” and “look” through one press book even after four hours—there are pros and cons of being a hoarder/collector, but that wasn’t a pro :)
I looked through some of the two pallets worth of boxes with the bound trade magazines and other books, etc. And that seemed like a good deal two—though I think one of the pallets could be dumped as the 60s and 70s items aren’t worth much. But, there are some cool things in there like a decent amount of individual Lion’s Roars (probably 10-12), MGM Studio News (the precursor to the Lion’s Roar and much more elusive), and Marvin had a lot of early Motion Picture Heralds and Motion Picture World’s, which are some of my favorite trade magazines for the great photos, color trade ads, and inserted studio annuals from all the studios—but a lot of work to go through everything, but therein lies the fun of discovery... But, overall it seemed like a loss for Profiles and a gain for the dealers, so that is good—and the amount they lost in poor assessment of what they had, would have paid above and beyond what the though was saved by sacking Daniel (sacking DS, was BS ;) And the world spins on and on and anon... > On Jun 29, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Todd <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > maybe because the previous hollywood expert with 40+ years experience was > aged and priced out as a corporate cost-saving measure? > > Funny thing is... I was actually thinking the same exact thing!! > > Todd > From: MoPo List <[email protected]> on behalf of daniel strebin > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 8:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] Profiles in History auction > > maybe because the previous hollywood expert with 40+ years experience was > aged and priced out as a corporate cost-saving measure? > > -----Original Message----- > From: MnTwister <[email protected]> > Sent: Jun 29, 2016 3:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MOPO] Profiles in History auction > > 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 > <https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1> > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > <https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1> > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > <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.
