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Re: A Do You Know Your Classic Movies Quiz.
I do appreciate all your comments regarding the subject and hopefully there will be still others to be received and they all will be given due considerationBruce said:Point of order. Does "do you know your classic movies?" refer to well regarded movies?
I will have to broaden my guesses when looking at images in this thread.Rick said:have to admit i've never heard of that one, let alone seen it.dedeposter said:It's not a problem for me, a film that's obscure to some people might not be obscure to others. I like a challenge every now and then, keep throwing in "well regarded" films every now and then, keeps us on our toes.
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Re: A Do You Know Your Classic Movies Quiz.
The film was seen at the cinema here in Sydney by two other people I know that I have spoken to. about the film at the time of its release. I will try not to include any obscure film titles in the quiz from now on.Rick said:have to admit i've never heard of that one, let alone seen it.
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Re: A Do You Know Your Classic Movies Quiz.
It's not a problem for me, a film that's obscure to some people might not be obscure to others. I like a challenge every now and then, keep throwing in "well regarded" films every now and then, keeps us on our toes.
Re: Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films
A rare Australian daybill and press sheet for a little known Australian film titled Minnamurra from 1989.
The film is set in the Australian outback at the turn of the 20th century. IMDb said ''the plot appears to have been inspired by The Squatter's Daughter (1933). David Stratton called it almost The Man From Snowy Rive III in terms of plot and character.''
The film was also released outside of Australia promoting the film as being a western with the alternative titles being Wrangler and also Outback.
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Re: Questions for Bruce-EMP
How eBay's blunder turned into one of eMoviePoster.com's BEST decisions EVER!
I read an article today in EcommerceBytes and it reminded me of one of the BIGGEST blunders eBay EVER made (and how it led to one of my BEST decisions EVER)!
What am I referring to? This article says that "eBay's purchase history only goes back 7 years". But it didn't have to be that way!
I started selling on eBay in 1999 and by mid-2001 I was one of their largest sellers. On June 30th and August 1st of that year I held my entire annual major auction on eBay, shocking the entire hobby!
The auction was a giant success, taking in over $600,000 and the collectibles department took in over $1 million that week (for the first time ever and over half due to me alone) and that made the top people at eBay want to know more about me.
So much so that they invited to visit their headquarters (all expenses paid, and by myself), and I jumped at the chance, because I wanted to give them advice.
I went there, and was introduced around as their #1 collectibles seller, and was even introduced to Meg Whitman (Pierre was no longer around).
The best part of the day was when I was introduced to a man named "Jerry" and I don't know what his title was, but I was told that if I got lucky he might talk to me for five or ten minutes, becaue there was always a long line of people waiting at his door.
But I was also told that if I told him something helpful, Jerry had the power to make it happen! I was ushered into his office and he started by showing me some pins they had made to send to sellers who reached various milestones.
He asked what I thought of them and I (ever blunt to a fault) told him I thought they were stupid, and I would much rather have a discounted rate for reaching a milestone, and that the pins were kind of insulting.
He said "That's what I told the people who came up with them!" and I knew I had found a kindred spirit. We ended up talking around an hour about all things eBay, but the part I was most excited to tell him was this.
At that time, you could only see past results going back 30 days, and I asked him if they could retrieve ALL the old results. He said "yes and no", that while they WERE still on their servers, it would super hard to retrieve them.
I said, "Then start with right now. After every auction ends, move it to an "eBay Archive Site" and make it accesible to dealers and collectors. At first it won't mean much, but after five or ten years, you will have the ultimate Price Guide to EVERY kind of collectible".
He said, "You're talking about millions of results a month and zillions of images. That would cost a ton to maintain."
I said, "But you can charge for access to it. What dealer or serious collector wouldn't pay a monthly fee to see tons of results for everything in their collectible area?".
He said, "You may be right, but they have so much else going on that I could not get it going" and I thanked him and left (and because I had stayed so long, there was a massive line at his door!).
BUT THAT GOT ME THINKING! If it made sense for eBay, then why did it not also make sense for eMoviePoster.com?
And that is how our Auction History at https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html was born! At first it only had 2002 results, but I had employees manually enter results from earlier years (especially all my major auction results) and we were off to the races!
And now we have 2,099,771 results and 2,046,546 images and EVERY movie paper collector the world over refers to it constantly, and surely it has contributed mightily to our success!
And of course eBay ended up mostly turning its back on collectibles anyway (a pale copy of Amazon) but had Jerry listened to me, the company might currently be the foremost seller of collectibles (and I might still be a seller there)!
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Re: Yeah, so, I am watching this..,
I'm going to a preview screening with a Baz Q+A in Melbourne...hoping to snag a poster as well!
Rick
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Re: Hondo's This And That
A printing error occurred on the following Go Johnny Go! (1959) Australian printed Blake Film daybill. The correct wording appears following on another rare daybill that was printed for the film. One has to wonder what percentage of the other printed daybills would have been faulty as well.
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Re: Hondo's Daybill and One Sheet Q&A [Re-Titled]
Reefer Madness (1938) Australian daybill posters that were printed for what certainly appears for first release screenings. This film was submittred to the Australian Commonwealth film censor by Urban Eye Releasing then, classified for public exhibition on 16mm in 1988.
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Re: Where Are These Daybills?
(John)
An Australia The Top End (1987) daybill seen above with the blank section on the bottom. Different from the Filmways/Filmpac daybills that were not printed for cinema screening details to be added, the above poster was printed for this purpose. Australia.The Top End was a 16mm self distributed film, and the bottom blank section was definitely added to provide dates and screening venues information. This film wasn't designed to be screened in cinemas but mainly in hired halls.
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Re: Hondo's This And That
dedeposter said:Things like that are why I bought the 4K version, then I can watch the original whenever I want to. Did you know there's an abridged version that also shows up on TV? It deleted the entire Pottersville section, because that part is still under copyright (due to source material issues), but the rest of the film fell into public domain years ago.
After falling into public domain in 1973 (or1974), Iater on in 1993 the film's rights were reclaimed alter a U.S.A. supreme court decision ruled the complete version of the film was to be granted and controlled by Paramount Pictures (previously Republic Pictures).
For your 4k version does it contain both the black and white version and also a colorized version as well? If it has a colorized version have you viewed it, and if so your thoughts?
When the missing Pottersville pivotal key scenes version was screened in the U,S.A. on Amazon Prime Video, there was an huge outcry from viewers of this film version.
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