Highest priced 16mm home movie I've ever seen on eBay...1933's L.A. / Bevery Hills/ Bel Air / more

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

275 feet for $1600+!

Anything vintage L.A. / Bevery Hills / CA related can go for big $$. Same with films of vintage Times Square showing the porn industry back in the day. (1970s) A film student died and left a small outtake 16mm reel of vintage Times Square and it went for about $1400.

 

 

 

Apparently, L.A. had a Beverycrest sign in the hills, along with Hollywoodland sign, that was later shortened to Hollywood.

 

 

L.A. used to have tons of storybook roofs, fairytale roofs, textured roofs, 3D roofs, Hansel & Gretel roofs around town. They had lots of names for them. This is not a great example of the textured roof design, but it reminded me of them.

 

 

These are what the roofs looked like. This one just off of the Miracle Mile in 2012, near where I grew up. They usually were built up with asphalt shingles. This one was out of wood. I guess people will be going to metal roofs once CA can bans all fossil fuels. Only problem is metal roofs use a rubber membrane underneath...and it is made from crude oil as well!

 

 

Photo: DDTJR

 

 

 

Well, some rich person or institution picked it up. It could also have gone to a stock footage company that sell it to you by the second. Point is, you and me will probably never see much, if any of it.

I've closed down my film Archive more or less. Not having any luck raising $ to buy a half-ass scanner, so no use adding more fuel to the fire. But if something comes up that is cheap and would make a good addition to the film Archive, I will try to pick it up. IIn the last year I've only bought a handful of films. I bid on this one, but $88.93 didn't go far in bidding. Most 16mm home movies can be bought for $15 - $35...unless the film nuts get a hard-on for it, like this one. This is the most expensive home movie I've ever seen on eBay.

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Publicity photo Wolfman Jack ~ 'American Graffiti' 1973

DDTJRAC Wolfman Jack Archive.

 

 

 

 

[Mark Dunn]

Bid up, I imagine, by production companies mining the archive.

I wanted short bits of commag, comopt and sepmag for lineup for sound transcription on the Steenbeck but they were going for silly money. Fortunately I acquired them gratis from clients who didn't want odd trims. The comopt I harvested from junk film used by labs for telecine leader. I recognise some of the actors. I even have S16 footage of big wheels from the 90s but the only ones I can identify are Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger and Michael Eisner.

Edited September 30, 2023 by Mark Dunn

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

That's good you can get for free. I seldom get any freebies.

You know, in photography nowadays, the famous photog gives and signs a copy of the photo the lab prints to the owner. I guess it is part of the payment for doing a good job, PP and all. That can add up to big $ for the lab.

I'd hate scanning other people's movies as a commercial scanner, if I could not keep a copy for my Archive. I'd poll the Large Format Forum to ask how prevalent that practice is for custom photo labs to get free fine art photos...but they banned me 5 years ago.