How did you get here?

[Dave Harris]

We pick up one or two new members each day. How did they find us? Please tell me where it was or how it happened that you found eFilmForum. Was a link on film-center? eFilmcenter? or what? For many of you, can you remember that far back. I want to know so that I can possibly increase our ranks. Unlike other forums our server automatically deletes those who have not logged in within the last 180 days ---- and we delete the many who try to join with users names like "moviecrazy69" -- all reasons why our membership count hovers around 600. I'd like to see it hover at a higher number. Back to the question, tell me how you got here. Thanks

[James Wheeler]

A friend of mine at work was telling me about how much he was selling 16mm home movies for on ebay so I did a search on 16mm. When I say all of those old films, I went nuts like a little kid. Now comes the part where you guys got lucky, I did a search on yahoo and found this forum. Now because of this forum I'm addicted to $1 movies, built a movie theater in my basement and no longer have any money. I copied then sold my entire cd collection to fund my addiction. I'm always looking for ways to buy more films, like in one of my other posts I described how my mother-in-law just bought me a film for my birthday which isn't until March. It was a war movie, what can I say. When I was at home sick from work, I finally had time to clean a movie and when I say how much better it looked, I started cleaning all of them. I can't stop. HELP!

[Dennis Ostermiller]

First reply from the newest member. I was connected to the site through an internet search for information to repair the drive lugs on some home sound movie (super8) of my now deceased grandfather. I will open a separate post with that question. Maybe someone on this site will be able to help me resolve this problem.

[Michael Coffin]

Boy Dave, you REALLY are making us put on the thinking cap tonight!

I honestly can't recall, it may have been a Google search - or it might have been one of my fellow local MA collectors (Steve Sigel, Ed Hurley, Steve Stanziani and others) - it's been a LONG time now. :)

-Mike

[Peter Goed]

Well Mike, you will have to think a little harder as you were on the forerunner to this site well before Google was even a spark in the eyes of its writer.

I got on the original site, run by Dave's father way back in 1999 but have no idea how I discovered it.

Peter.

[Linda Haluska]

This is an easy question to answer, Dave and it brings back fond memories.
I told Richard Haines that I want to start collecting films.
He came over, logged on your site for me and signed me up!
All I did was come up with a password and add this wonderful forum to my favorite places.
Now....I am hooked!
:)

[Dave Harris]

Where's Richard been lately? opps this belongs on the cutting room floor.

[Linda Haluska]

Where's Richard been lately? opps this belongs on the cutting room floor.

(Pardon the off topic response everyone but Dave asked and he is KING here :) )

Rich is tying up the loose ends on "Soft Money". Now all we need is to find a distributor and make some money!

(Thanks for asking Dave)

[Bill Trentacost]

Call it blind luck? My Son was into this online thing. I did a search and have been stuck in here since. So far things been good, so what's next? Hello OCC.COM?

[Russell Harnden]

A good collector friend of mine loaned me a print of an educational film I had been looking for. When I asked him how and where he got it, he told me that it was posted for sale (along with an entire educational library) on eFilmForum.com

....the rest is history....

[Michael Johnson]

I was looking for a site where, besides collecting 16mm films, I could talk off-topic about what color socks my alcoholic pets were wearing.

[Bill Carr]

I found this while perusing *********. It is a good find. I enjoy it very much.
As to the color of Mike's socks, are we sure he wears any at all?

[Bruno Cester]

By accident, story of my life! ha ha

[John Roach]

I was trying to find out how to pass on some old 35mm nitrate prints my dad had, and google told me about you. I have learned a lot and done nothing with the films yet.

[James Wheeler]

I was looking for a site where, besides collecting 16mm films, I could talk off-topic about what color socks my alcoholic pets were wearing.
My brother is a sponser for AA if you need any help with the pets!:)

[J. Craig Shearman]

I think I was simplying googline or yahooing 16mm, 16mm film or something like that. Whether that took me directly here or to film-center first I'm not sure but I tend to think it was film-center. I used to spend a lot of time there but spend more time here these days. Do we have a link to film-center on efilmforum? I sometime forget the name.

[Dave Harris]

Do we have a link to film-center on efilmforum? I sometime forget the name.


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