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Movie Profiles & Premiums
Volume 4, Number 4. April 15, 2006
The Wizard of Oz Game Card set contains 44 different cards featuring colorful scenes from the classic film and depicting all of its popular characters from Dorothy and Toto to the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion right on through to the Wicked Witch of the West, flying monkeys, Munchkins and more! The 44 cards are split into four groups each numbered one through eleven and rather than offering them all at once I will probably offer eleven of the cards per week to draw the sale out a little. Enough of my excited bantering, it's time to see them for yourself: Photo ID Guide: 1939 Wizard of Oz Game Cards Something else new since last time, if you tried to view that slide show in the popular Firefox browser I'm now offering a page with a Gallery alternative that you can actually view correctly! Or if you're viewing through Explorer and just prefer the Gallery view to the Slideshow then, of course, you have that option as well. I also went back and created alternate Gallery pages for all of our Collectible Slide Shows featuring more than the six or seven images -- that's when those Slideshow pages begin to register incorrectly in Firefox. I did it for the MJ Moriarty Playing Card page, and might have done it for another page or two that I thought of while I was in this little groove. And speaking of Collectible Slide Shows (wow, is this issue flowing!) there is a new one this month as I still had enough images on hand to create a new page (with alternate view as well) to coincide with this month's featured profile: If you're still looking for more to do after reading Susan's latest piece, I actually created a second Photo ID Guide a couple of weeks ago for the 1928 "Film Favorites" set issued by Wills. That guide includes a complete checklist plus twenty images from the set including a sample view of the reverse side of one of the cards. I put this guide together because I had picked up a set, which has been broken, scanned, graded, described, etc. and of which singles are currently available for immediate sale in my eBay Store. I've been a little more aggressive buying movie collectibles recently, so besides the Wizard of Oz auctions coming up you can look for another grouping of 1916 MJ Moriarty Playing Cards (I sold off all of the last batch of singles so I had to hunt down another deck!), a few issues of Loew's Weekly from the 1930's, and a set of 1925 "Cinema Stars" from Rothman's which I'll be breaking up for individual sale and updating the Photo ID Guide for as well. Again, all of the items in that last paragraph are still to come, be sure to check my eBay Auctions on at least a weekly basis so you don't miss out. My blog will also be updated with new listings nightly as they go up for sale. Some great research material has been added to things-and-other-stuff.com as well, actually donated by Jason Liller whom I was lucky enough to run into at the alt.movies.silent group. I really could have added Jason's contribution to my magazine site as easily as things-and-other-stuff.com, but in the end I thought it would be of more interest to film fanatics then magazine collectors. What Jason has created is The Complete New Yorker Film Review Index, which is an index of every film reviewed in The New Yorker Magazine from it's first issue in 1925 through the the last issue put out in 1929. This effectively covers the silent era in New Yorker Film Reviews. Now you're not going to be able to read the reviews from Jason's index, but you will be able to see which movies The New Yorker reviewed and if you're looking to follow up you'll be able to pinpoint the issue that the particular review appeared in. Thank you again, Jason, I really appreciate the addition! Other new pages on the site include a couple of more entries to Cliff's Classic DVD List, as I recently watched both Hands Across the Table starring Carole Lombard and Gene Tierney in Whirlpool and felt like writing afterwards for each. Keep in mind these are just my opinions on these movies, I watch them and then try to get down what the movie did for me. If I cover something that I pick up and I don't like, well, it'll be very apparent that I didn't like it, and if it's one of your personal favorites I apologize. In the case of the two movies above, I liked them both quite a bit, so hopefully I did a good job on them! The entries to my DVD List are all getting pretty long, I'm very glad that I split them off into individual pages ... the only downside is I have A LOT of movies that I'm going to have to watch again now in order to write about. Of course it's fun watching them, but it's even more fun buying new ones to add to the list! So, I guess what I'm saying is that the list will likely never be done. Time to take a deep breath -- this issue seemed to write itself, I can't believe how quick that all came to me. Of course I forgot something (though maybe not), and if it's important enough I'll tack it on in a new post on the blog. Oh well, it was quick and clean (hopefully), so I'll be off to bed earlier than expected. The
next issue of The Movie Profiles and Premiums Newsletter is scheduled for
May 15 and I'm hoping to have another entry to The Silent Collection from Tammy
Stone for that one. Thanks, and have a great month!
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