Flyers from Film Classic Exchange
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:06 pm
Well, I'm really posting these for Richard, but I thought some of you other guys might be interested too, especially anyone else who was collecting film back in the 1970s. Rob McKay loaned me these flyers he'd saved from 1978.
Film Classic Exchange was Charlie Tarbox's operation. Whereas Blackhawk Films used to mail out a complete catalog every month, Tarbox would send out occasional envelopes stuffed with flyers, listing a lot of rare titles with no description whatsoever. If you saw something you liked, you wanted to buy it immediately because you couldn't be sure it would ever be available again, and once in a while, the film you got was not what you were expecting. His quality varied from surprisingly good to basically awful, but every envelope from Tarbox was a treasure chest of intriguing possibilities. Here's a taste.
Film Classic Exchange was Charlie Tarbox's operation. Whereas Blackhawk Films used to mail out a complete catalog every month, Tarbox would send out occasional envelopes stuffed with flyers, listing a lot of rare titles with no description whatsoever. If you saw something you liked, you wanted to buy it immediately because you couldn't be sure it would ever be available again, and once in a while, the film you got was not what you were expecting. His quality varied from surprisingly good to basically awful, but every envelope from Tarbox was a treasure chest of intriguing possibilities. Here's a taste.