Page 14 - 2015-09

Home movies bring big prices on eBay

It seems that home movies depicting any important event or those showing
scenes from the 1930s and 1940s are selling for quite high prices.

Some time back, a regular advertiser in Reel Deals told me that he was
surprised that the winning bidder had paid excess of $1000.00 for a large
box of 8 mm home movies that he had advertised.

He enquired as to what the buyer wanted with home movies, and was
surprised to find the guy had brought them as they involved holiday
footage from a round-world trip in the 1950s, and that he was a “stock
footage” dealer.

With the world’s TV channels devouring programs at the current rate, it is
not surprising that this type of material is in demand.

16 mm 1920s HOME MOVIE - PARIS, LONDON, EUROPE,
THOMAS EDISON STORE, BIG BEN, etc.

OLD CURIOSITY SHOP TRAINS STREET
CARS ALPS RARE FILM

Sold for approximately AU $419.46

BUNDLE OF 30 - 8 MM FILMS, GOOD
CONDITION, VIETNAM WAR FOOTAGE

Sold for approximately AU $515.42

A large collection of 35 mm Kodachrome slides were also listed as selling with a
high price

Question to ponder:
Will home video footage bring similar prices in the future?

Thanks to Rodney Bourke for the links to the above sales

14 REEL DEALS September 2015