Movie Stills

[Dewey]

Is there any reason for movie stills to be three-hole punched? Any good reason? I imagine this would impact value, obviously.

Got any baseball (or general) movie stills you want to show off? Lordstan just posted some Gehrig beauties in the May pickup thread!

[Exhibitman]

No legitimate issuer reason; someone wanted to store them in a notebook.

Do you mean a lobby card or a still? Some lobby cards:

Gene Tunney in The Fighting Marine



Jim Jeffries in They Never Come Back



Joe Louis in Joe Palooka, Champ



Here is a still from the Benny Leonard film Flying Fists



and another one from the Humphrey Bogart/Joe Walcott/Max Baer film The Harder They Fall

[JoeyFarino]

[pencil1974]

I think this counts as a movie still, don't know. From Headin Home 1920

[Forever Young]

Here is a TYPE 1 from "The Babe Comes Home" that I recently added to my collection. The shot is incredible to me in that it is actually Ruth flying through the air with the greatest of ease. No stunt double here..it's a bird, it's a plane..it's SUPER BABE. I can see a cape on him in this one.
It was also used for is frojoy card.

[prewarsports]

Sounds like you have might a studio file copy. They would keep binders full of images for reference during the filming of movies and then they just got trashed or stored away but many have hit the market. They are "damaged" but some people get into them.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by Dewey

Is there any reason for movie stills to be three-hole punched? Any good reason? I imagine this would impact value, obviously.

Try searching for "key book photo" or "keybook photo" and see if that is what you are referring to. This would be much different value-wise than a regular photo someone punched holes in for storing in their photo album or Trapper Keeper. (And by different, I mean that keybook photos are often more desirable whereas Joe-Schmoe-punched ones are less)

[Exhibitman]

That's true Mike. The code is a telltale sign of a re-release.

[Dewey]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

Try searching for "key book photo" or "keybook photo" and see if that is what you are referring to. This would be much different value-wise than a regular photo someone punched holes in for storing in their photo album or Trapper Keeper. (And by different, I mean that keybook photos are often more desirable whereas Joe-Schmoe-punched ones are less)

Not sure what this is, as far as a keybook photo or not, but I liked it so I got it. Thanks for the info!

[Dewey]

Oh yeah.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Dewey

Oh yeah.

That was my wife and my costumes last Halloween, lol.

[jb217676]

Sweet! My slo-pitch team name is the "Baseball Furies" and these are our shirts!