What really pisses me off most are all the times when these kinds of people (who obviously have far too much money to burn) pay huge amounts of money for items like this 16mm print... AND THEN THEY SIT ON THEM.

I've been outbid (by a huge margin!) on things on eBay that I wanted to share with the world via one of my websites. And after it got too rich for my blood and the auction was over, I have written to some of these guys and said "hey, this would be really useful for the website... could you possibly scan/copy/transcribe/tell me some details about this particular item?" 9 times out of 10 they just blow me off, and don't even bother responding.

Folks, if you've got something cool and historically interesting... share it!! Don't just sit on it.

I know I'm preaching to the converted here, though, because so many of you are involved in preservation projects that benefit the whole world...

--SKot