Description
Three steel film shipping cases, the kind that rode between the film exchange and the projection booth, sold together as a single lot. All three go to one bidder.
The square grey case has an FBI warning sticker and a shipping label handwritten “Univ. / 877 / The Flintstones,” with “Non-Inflammable Acetate Film” printed below. Inside are three reels on yellow spools, each wrapped in a Universal Film Exch., Inc. paper band, print no. 877, title “The Flintstones.” One band is marked reel 4, and a sticker on another is dated 5-24-94, three days before Universal’s live-action Flintstones opened in theaters. The six-sided case with the rusted straps holds two more reels of the same print on dark spools, one marked reel 2. The bands say “No. Reels 10,” and we count five reels in the two cases. One lid is embossed “Hollywood Film Co., Hwd. Calif.”
The third case, dented and paint-flecked, is hand-lettered “Young Mr. Lincoln, B/2, A-0534.” It is empty, just the case. The film is still banded and tied with string, and we have not unspooled it or run it through a projector, so it sells as found. A fair bit of steel to carry up the gangway. Dock pickup in the South Loop is the plan for this one.
