Hundreds of films from cinema on ebay

[icarus2000]

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Apparently part of a large collection of film found at a cinema closed since 1979! Anyone think there maybe anything of interest here? Worth contacting the seller?

[Greg H]

Could be worth a well worded email, probably much too late for that though! Hes probably already recieved 500 rabid mails about missing Dr Who and Hancock......... lol!

[RWels]

80sretromemorys said:

An ideal opportunity to own a rare piece of film memorabilia , Or even earn £1000's by framing the cell's and selling them (These normally retail at £29.00 per cell) Just think you could earn £1000's as there are millions of frames on one reel.

Nooo

And it isn't correct anyhow, because a large part of these will be completely uninteresting.

[Steven Sigel]

Not worth bothering with unless you happen to be a collector of 35mm features.

Remember, most TV show prints would be 16mm (with a few exceptions here and there). Certainly all the syndication prints are 16mm.

And also at a theatre - they would have been showing features, not TV shows to begin with

And finally, out of the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of 16mm and 35mm prints out there in private hands, probably less than 1/10th of 1% of them are British TV shows from the 60s.

[Greg H]

Indeed!
But there is always the possibility, so its generally worth a quick check, no matter how against the odds it is!
I think there is at least one episode of Troughton on 35mm and wasnt there a Hancock or two as well?
Its pretty unlikely though! About as likely as stuff turning up in the basement of a mormon church! LoL!!

[Steven Sigel]

Not really. The Mormon church used to be a BBC film facility -- which made it quite a bit more likely that stuff would be found there....

[H Hartley]

There are some clues in this lot of films that maybe they only like ' teaser ' promo copies ?.

For a start, there are B/W versions of color films and also some are much shorter than the orginal length.
So this cinema may have served as a screening area for those in the film trade for future releases?. in which case these films have little archival value ..

[Sherwood]

Wasn't 'No Kidding' a black and white film then?

A complete copy on 35 mm would run to six reels of around 1,275 feet each.

I can't really see the point of owning a 35mm feature, what would you do with it? They take up far too much space as well. I suppose you could offer it to the BFI as a viewing copy.

But then I'm not a film collector so each to his own!

[Steven Sigel]

No Kidding was a B&W film.
Run time was 87 minutes. Most theatrical features were shipped on 2000' reels (2 lab reels- e.g 1A and 1B, 2A and 2B etc.) . I'm actually surprised they have 6 reels, I would have thought this film would have fit onto 5, but perhaps some of them are short.

The term 1-reel and 2-reel comedies comes from this. A 1-reel comedy was one lab reel or roughly 10 minutes, a 2-reel comedy was 2 lab reels or 20 minutes.

In 16mm a full lab reel is 400ft, and features were usually shipped 4xlab reels per reel (e.g. 1A-1B-2A-2B) ...

[cliff hanger]

www.britishpictures.com/articles/missing.htm
do some cross referencing more likely these than dr what or fathers militia episodes