I found the original reels to Garbancito de la Mancha (The Enchanted Sword) Spain and Europes first animated film from 1945 - at two separate yard sales in New York a year apart from each other 2 2

[ivegotneatstuff]

A two year project finally coming to fruition... Spain just started making press releases a couple days ago. I know its not a comic book - but know there are many animation fans here and just wanted to blab about it  I sold them back to Spain for pretty much what I paid for them plus my costs (I think I saw Hugo and Cinema Paradiso too many times lol)

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/21/garbancito-hero-of-europes-first-feature-length-animated-colour-film-to-fight-again

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 22, 2020 by ivegotneatstuff

[kav]

wait I dont understand you spent 2 years going to yard sales hoping to find these?

[Deadpoolica]

6 minutes ago, kav said:

wait I dont understand you spent 2 years going to yard sales hoping to find these?

...and sold them for no profit  

Edited July 22, 2020 by Deadpoolica

[kav]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/21/garbancito-hero-of-europes-first-feature-length-animated-colour-film-to-fight-again

[ivegotneatstuff]

12 minutes ago, kav said:

wait I dont understand you spent 2 years going to yard sales hoping to find these?

ha well - I originally bought it because there were a couple movie posters hanging out of the boxes - so I thought "oh cool - eBay fodder" so I asked them if I could buy the entire thing - some 15 boxes of stuff - and they said sure - so I did. I pulled out the posters and stuck the rest in a hot storage room (I know - stupid) - I saw film reels, but I had completely forgotten what Tarantino had taught me - nitrate film can self combust and is highly flammable. I didn't go back to the storage for about a year - and it was only then that I realized I needed to get them out of there..so I brought them back to our barn and put them in an old refrigerator/freezer to keep them cold. I then slowly pulled out reels and did research - and started to realize what I had. After calling around to a bunch of places I eventually got ahold of Spain.. (who were very excited to say the least about what I had found). THEN - I went to another yard sale and stumbled upon the other half of the same collection owned by a completely different person - and by some miracle I found the other half of the reels and bought those too. 

[kav]

incredible.  if this was in a comic book I would jeer at the writers for coming up with such unbelievable story.

[OtherEric]

What an amazing find!

[ivegotneatstuff]

1 hour ago, Deadpoolica said:

...and sold them for no profit  

I know haha - In the end the thought of holding a countries history and culture hostage for $ had me feeling slightly nauseated .... I charged them pretty much what I had into it (plus having to store nitrate film in our barn isn’t exactly safe) 

Edited July 22, 2020 by ivegotneatstuff

[SamPool]

Wow, that is incredible.. I love stories of finds like this.

Great for you and for donating this back to where it belongs. 

 

[Red_Hood]

Great find...but no actual treasure value as no one is really looking for this.  Your best effort is to contact Heritage or another company that can pump it out for you.

[kav]

2 minutes ago, Red_Hood said:

Great find...but no actual treasure value as no one is really looking for this.  Your best effort is to contact Heritage or another company that can pump it out for you.

wait what?

[Buzzetta]

2 hours ago, Red_Hood said:

Great find...but no actual treasure value as no one is really looking for this.  Your best effort is to contact Heritage or another company that can pump it out for you.

Again... sigh...

"YOU" were not looking for this.  He is right though that people interested in animation find this interesting.  He understood the history of what he had and decided not to try and sell it for a mass profit because it was part of the cultural history of Spain.  He says, "In the end the thought of holding a countries history and culture hostage for $ had me feeling slightly nauseated."  Finding a nation's first full length animated film is akin to if the original reels for Disney's Snow White had become lost.  He felt, as Indiana Jones would say, "That belongs in a museum."

Furthermore, he makes mention of the incredible event of finding half of one obscure item in one place and then stumbling across the other half at a later point.  The odds of that happening are incredible.  It would be like finding half the pages of the original art for Tec 27 at a garage sale in 2020 and then finding the second half at another garage sale, at another location in 2021. 

Does this make sense now?

[ivegotneatstuff]

1 hour ago, Buzzetta said:

Again... sigh...

"YOU" were not looking for this.  He is right though that people interested in animation find this interesting.  He understood the history of what he had and decided not to try and sell it for a mass profit because it was part of the cultural history of Spain.  He says, "In the end the thought of holding a countries history and culture hostage for $ had me feeling slightly nauseated."  Finding a nation's first full length animated film is akin to if the original reels for Disney's Snow White had become lost.  He felt, as Indiana Jones would say, "That belongs in a museum."

Furthermore, he makes mention of the incredible event of finding half of one obscure item in one place and then stumbling across the other half at a later point.  The odds of that happening are incredible.  It would be like finding half the pages of the original art for Tec 27 at a garage sale in 2020 and then finding the second half at another garage sale, at another location in 2021. 

Does this make sense now?

Now the original art for Tec 27 I would have sold 😂😂😂 

[theCapraAegagrus]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[ivegotneatstuff]

yes some wear pajamas all day and old tshirts with holes in them 

 

[Buzzetta]

19 hours ago, kav said:

wait I dont understand you spent 2 years going to yard sales hoping to find these?

No... the OP collects this type of stuff and goes to garage sales looking for it much like when I am running errands and see a garage sale in town I will slow down or stop to see if they have comics, toys, legos... things like that. 

[bobotski]

18 hours ago, ivegotneatstuff said:

I know haha - In the end the thought of holding a countries history and culture hostage for $ had me feeling slightly nauseated .... I charged them pretty much what I had into it (plus having to store nitrate film in our barn isn’t exactly safe) 

Takes a noble heart to do this and I respect you for that. Most people (myself too, I admit) would have milked people/organizations for it.

One man's garbage is another man/nation's treasure. You can't say it has no value if people will take measures to restore it.

[kav]

12 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

Again... sigh...

"YOU" were not looking for this.  He is right though that people interested in animation find this interesting.  He understood the history of what he had and decided not to try and sell it for a mass profit because it was part of the cultural history of Spain.  He says, "In the end the thought of holding a countries history and culture hostage for $ had me feeling slightly nauseated."  Finding a nation's first full length animated film is akin to if the original reels for Disney's Snow White had become lost.  He felt, as Indiana Jones would say, "That belongs in a museum."

Furthermore, he makes mention of the incredible event of finding half of one obscure item in one place and then stumbling across the other half at a later point.  The odds of that happening are incredible.  It would be like finding half the pages of the original art for Tec 27 at a garage sale in 2020 and then finding the second half at another garage sale, at another location in 2021. 

Does this make sense now?

I consider myself a generous and generally selfless individual and have done and given many things and refused compensation but I could not have done what OP did.  He is as rare as the items he found.

[1950's war comics]

6 hours ago, kav said:

I consider myself a generous and generally selfless individual and have done and given many things and refused compensation but I could not have done what OP did.  He is as rare as the items he found.

yeah no kidding , i mean just asking for a measly 50k would be fine ,.. which is nothing (pennies) to a country

[kav]

On 7/22/2020 at 3:10 PM, ivegotneatstuff said:

A two year project finally coming to fruition... Spain just started making press releases a couple days ago. I know its not a comic book - but know there are many animation fans here and just wanted to blab about it  I sold them back to Spain for pretty much what I paid for them plus my costs (I think I saw Hugo and Cinema Paradiso too many times lol)

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/21/garbancito-hero-of-europes-first-feature-length-animated-colour-film-to-fight-again

 

 

 

 

 

so how did you go about contacting Spain?  If I was Spain i would not trust the mail with such a historical item but send someone over to pick it up.