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Thursday 22 May 2024

Movie Marquee Here's the ever changing marquee sign for what old movies will be playing in the Hayes Ballroom next to the dealer's room.	Movie Room Inside the Hayes Ballroom where old movies are projected with 16mm film during the show. For some of the movies a pianist plays a piano to accompany the movie like was done in the Silent Era before 1929.	16mm Film Vendor's Room Across from the main dealer's room is another room with a few dealers who specialize in selling and trading 16mm films of vintage movies. Let's take a look inside this mysterious looking room in the photos below.

Timothy Whaley Timothy Whaley with his assortment of 8mm movies in their decorative boxes. Tim is holding the science fiction movie It Came From Outer Space, 1953 which had special effects by Ray Harryhausen. If you look through monster magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland you see lots of ads for 8mm film versions of science fiction and horror movies. 8mm was to small to be a professional film format like 35mm and 16mm but it was cheap enough to be used for home movies before the 1980s when it was replaced by video cameras. And since it was cheap the kids who read monster magazines in the 1960s and 1970s could afford to buy a 8mm version of their favorite science fiction or horror movie.	Timothy Whaley Timothy with Super 8mm versions of the war movie Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970 and the "disaster movie" The Poseidon Adventure, 1972 which was the highest grossing film of 1973 and helped kick off the disaster movie trend that was popular in the 1970s.	Edward Anastasio I first met 16mm film dealer Ed Anastasio at last year's show. Here's Ed running a 16mm projector showing the Walt Disney animated film Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, 1937.

Edward Anastasio Ed's large inventory is mostly in the 16mm format but he's pointing out a rare 35mm version of the The Twilight Zone television episode "The Hitch Hiker" from 1960 which starred Inger Stevens. Ed said he wanted about $500 for this item.	Bob Kotsopoulos Moving on to the main dealers room we find Bob Kotsopoulos with six examples of insert style movie posters. With their 14" x 36" size the insert posters are smaller than the standard one-sheet poster making them popular with collectors since you can hang more of them on your wall. Of the examples Bob is showing here the one I like most is Executive Suite, 1954 starring William Holden and other actors I like. I have a DVD copy and I'm hoping a Blu-Ray will be released someday.	Robert Matzen Movie book author Robert Matzen with books he has written about Audrey Hepburn and Carole Lombard. I first met Robert Matzen at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con in Maryland 2022 where he was selling at a reasonable price one of his most popular books Errol Flynn Slept Here, 2009. I made the mistake of not buying it and resolved to buy it from him if I saw him again. Unfortunately at this show he had no copies left. I may have to bite the bullet and pay what the scalpers on ebay or Amazon want for it. Robert was selling two lavishly made hardcover books on the history of marketing movies by John McElwee for only $20 each so I bought those.

Richard Halegua, Daniel Strebin Here's veteran movie memorabilia dealer Richard Halegua at Daniel Strebin's table. I first met Daniel at last year's show. He specializes in rare and authentic movie photos and serves as a consultant and appraiser for Heritage Auctions headquartered in Dallas, TX. In the foreground at left is a large photo of 1950s actress and pinup model Jayne Mansfield wrestling around with her husband Mickey Hargitay. There's a folder of publicity photos from the movie Ben-Hur, 1959 sitting on Dan's left. Let's take a closer look at it in the next photo at right.	Daniel Strebin's folder of Ben-Hur photos I've always liked the actor Charlton Heston because he frequently played in big budget historical epics which is one of my favorite film genres. And of course Ben-Hur is the most famous of all those films. I asked Dan about this folder of Ben-Hur photos and he said he had just recently won it in an auction on Bruce Hershenson's widely used internet bidding site eMoviePoster.com and none of the 133 photos in the folder had been sold yet. The photos came from the estate of a collector who spent many years gathering publicity photos from this movie. All the photos are original photos from 1959 and most of them have MGM studion printing on the back which proves they are original photos and not the frequent later copies you see on ebay. I figured I can't live long enough to put together a similar collection of photos so I paid Dan's asking price of $800. That's only $6.00 per photo so if I ever want to resell these photos for a profit I think I can do it.	Daniel Strebin Daniel with two expensive publicity photos: at left is teenage actress Sue Lyon in the lobby of a New York City theater during the premier of the movie Lolita, 1962 in which she starred with James Mason. At right is Dolly Read. She was a Playboy Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club and Playboy's Playmate of the Month for May 1966. She has 12 acting credits, 1962-1980, in the Internet Movie Database. She is best known from the movie Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, 1970 directed by Russ Meyer.

Daniel Strebin Daniel with an original photo from the Universal Studios movie The Black Cat, 1934 which is considered to be the best of the Universal horror movies that Bela Lugosi and Bela Karloff starred in together. In the photo Lugosi is inquiring of Karloff why he keeps Lugosi's dead wife preserved on display as a souvenir.	Randy Riggenberg Randy with some one-sheet size movie posters. Dementia 13, 1963 is the first film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. I bought the Director's Cut on Blu-Ray a few years ago. A Clockwork Orange, 1971 was directed by Stanley Kubrick. I saw it in the theater when it was first released. It had an X rating (mostly for violence) before the X rating became associated only with pornographic movies. I've never seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975 which was a low budget musical comedy parody of old horror and science fiction movies. Mainstream critics and audiences didn't like but it became one of those "audience participation" type movies and developed a strong cult following which lingers on today.	Manny Pacheco Southern California writer and radio personality Manny Pacheco author of the Forgotten Hollywood series of books shown here. These books explore little nooks and crannies of vintage Hollywood film history often overlooked by other writers. I found Manny to be knowledgeable and entertaining and I enjoyed talking with him. While I was taking Manny's picture the show's promoter Samantha Glasser came by and took this photo of me.

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