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Movie Profiles & Premiums
Volume 4, Number 5. May 15, 2006
All this means, if you're a collector, is that it's a good time to buy! I managed an hour or so detour on eBay myself before coming back to put the finishing touches on this issue. I've been finding a lot of good Buy-it-Now deals lately, and wouldn't you know it, I just dropped $60 over there now! As for my own items up for sale I've now got my Movie Collectibles store category up to 229 items. Mostly cards, some stills and other odds and ends. I still have some old stock hanging around waiting to be relisted, but I've been trying to get some fresh movie listings up at least once per week -- for tonight, I've just broke a recently purchased set of 1917 Kromo Gravure cards, the "No Borders" variety, and have listed half of the set at auction to end next Monday night, May 22. I hope to get the other half up as "Buy it Now" items available for immediate sale before the auction listings end. It's a mostly mid to high-grade group, EX to EX-MT. Several are actually quite sharp, but I noticed some light spots of age toning on the reverse side of most of the cards and also on the front when I was tilting them under high light. There are high-res scans included with each listing, so you should get a pretty good idea. This particular box of Kromo Gravure "No Border" cards also included several that were missing from the checklist on the main Kromo Gravure page, so I've added those as I came across them and while I was at it also created a separate page that includes scans of each of the fifty cards from this latest set. (If you go to that page please do allow it time to load, 50 scans may take a moment depending upon your connection!). As promised last issue, I've also updated the Photo ID Guide for the 1925 Rothman's "Cinema Stars" set of 25. The new guide includes a checklist and scans of each of the 25 cards in the set (Note: Most, if not all of these cards, are currently available for immediate purchase in my eBay Store!) And a final note regarding collectibles, the 1939 Wizard of Oz Card Game singles honestly did not move as I had expected them to move. I ended the auctions for the second batch of eleven cards before any sold and put the set back together. The listing ends tomorrow (May 16), but U.S. buyers can currently pick up the entire set from me for $319 postpaid. I don't see these sets come up much, and while I obviously paid less for this one I have bid as high as $400 for this set before myself...and lost. So I think it's a fair deal. But, if you just want to look at all of the colorful cards, once again here's a link to the Photo ID Guide: Photo ID Guide: 1939 Wizard of Oz Game Cards Profile: Tammy Stone returns this issue and so we go way back to the teens and twenties for The Silent Collection: Corinne Griffith in The Silent Collection by Tammy Stone This is another instance where poor planning cost me tons of old collectible scans, so there is no Slide Show for Corinne Griffith, but I did manage to find four pics to use on the profile page on the main site. Speaking of the main site, I do believe I finished "phase one" of my site update. So now all of the profile pages should link to any mentioned film reviews and movie collectible pages; film reviews to profiles and Photo ID Guides, and Photo ID Guides to profiles and reviews. As I've said before, my goal here was to better bring together the three elements of the site and hopefully with everything laid out as it is now anyone who's interested in doing so can really get lost deep within the site without ever even returning to the home page. No new additions to
Cliff's Classic DVD List this month, sorry
about that. Actually there have been a couple of titles added to the list
itself, as I picked up new release Baby Doll (which I have watched again, but
have yet to write-up) and the class Seven Samurai -- which reminds me, if you
missed my blog posting,Amazon.com Not so much a review, as a brief summary, I did create a page from Cliff's Movie Book List for the new release Flapper by Joshua Zeitz. Not really a movie book, but a concise survey of flapperdom, Zeitz's book does include a large section towards the end covering Colleen Moore, Louise Brooks, and Clara Bow. Likely recycled information if you're reading this, but at the same time fitting together nicely with the other tales of Scott & Zelda, Lipstick, Coco Chanel and others to paint a pretty accurate portrait of the 1920's.. That's all for now. Be sure to read Tammy's piece on Corinne Griffith, check out the new Photo ID Guides if you collect, and as always feel free to buy any of my stuff! The
next issue of The Movie Profiles and Premiums Newsletter is scheduled for
June 15 and will include a Golden Age Profile by Susan M. Kelly. Thanks, and have a great month!
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was running a sale last week (still on as I
write this, but often their sales changeover on Tuesdays!) on fourteen Criterion
DVD Titles including Seven Samurai, new release Mr. Arkadin, The Third Man, M,
Young Mr. Lincoln, and The Grand Illusion where each title was discounted as
much as 45%. Basically these Criterion titles, usually available for about
$40/each are on sale for about $22-$28. If you're interested, head over to