I Bought A Movie Collection! 300 SEALED and OBSCURE Titles You Might Not Have Heard Of!

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  • I bought a movie collection! In this video, I showcase 300 titles that I purchased SEALED from a collector. Find out all the details in this unboxing/showcase video!
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  • @CerealAtMidnight
    @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +10

    Further viewing:
    Al Adamson Box Set Review czcams.com/video/iGA6gP0Irsw/video.html
    This Storage Hack Saved My Collection czcams.com/video/jKCY-sBzCmc/video.html
    Gene Autry, Western Icon czcams.com/video/_eFV8G6i0gc/video.html
    The VCI Interview czcams.com/video/lVeay_kKgl0/video.html
    B-Western Heroes czcams.com/video/Mq9MgxJV7CE/video.html
    Western Spotlight 1 czcams.com/video/k5rD2T8VmiI/video.html
    Western Spotlight 2 czcams.com/video/TuFB95idxN8/video.html
    Criterion's Ranown Cycle Review czcams.com/video/96bb0cx-YE8/video.html
    Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy 4K: czcams.com/video/PCauSiVmycs/video.html
    High Plains Drifter 4K Review: czcams.com/video/u041dOC9GZ4/video.html

  • @OuterGalaxyLounge
    @OuterGalaxyLounge Před 5 měsíci +19

    Haha. Heath is so me.
    Heath 2 weeks ago: "I got too much stuff, ya'll"
    Heath today: "Ummmm...."

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +11

      Haha! I do have too much stuff, but not enough B-westerns!

  • @PacoVJ
    @PacoVJ Před 5 měsíci +10

    half way through the video and i don't recognize a single title so far!!! great collection haul!

  • @Exitin2
    @Exitin2 Před 5 měsíci +4

    I would love for you to interview Sam Sherman! The man has an endless supply of classic movie knowledge. The two of you would work well together.

  • @michaelhunter3734
    @michaelhunter3734 Před 5 měsíci +11

    Absolutely love your channel. I do the same myself search Car boot sales and charity shops for old VHS tapes of movies that I watched with my Dad and old musical LPs that my Mother would play ( she loved Mario Lanzer ) it's like a worm blanket of love that i miss from the time that they were still with me . I was buzzing when I found Gods Gun on CZcams my Dad loved that movie . And your absolutely correct sometimes you can't find things on VHS , DVD , Blu-ray or 4K so streaming is OK

  • @robbush6822
    @robbush6822 Před 5 měsíci +2

    My dad would have lost his mind over that collection. He loved the Poverty Row westerns. He preferred them to the big studio ones. B-movie westerns and Poverty Row westerns were his thing.

  • @arcluna
    @arcluna Před 5 měsíci +7

    I've been recently discovering a lot of films of the 70s which were before my time. 10 years ago I had very little interest. You never know what people will be into and what they will be interested to discover. Naturally these films will be less accessible and the audience will dwindle, but I do believe there will always be someone interested, even if they don't know it yet. It's absolutely wonderful seeing these films find a worthy home and it was a lot of fun seeing you discover them one by one. Stay awesome Heath and keep sending the good vibes.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +2

      Very well said. A big part of what I'm getting interested in right now is because of my age and because it's a natural progression of my fandom as I dig further and further back. I didn't start actively seeking out movies from the 1930s until I was around 30!

  • @Arya_Amir
    @Arya_Amir Před 5 měsíci +6

    Never heard of these movies. Now I can add some of them to my watchlist!

  • @damianp564
    @damianp564 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Older Alpha cases were very nice. Hard to get those thick ones now. I have a bin I kept for replacements but had to recycle the rest. Too many. Great score.

  • @RobotPorter
    @RobotPorter Před 5 měsíci +6

    The ventriloquist cowboy Max Terhune, and his dummy Elmer, appeared in 21 "Three Mesquiteers" entries, and all 24 of the films in the "Range Buster" series. And, yes, a ventriloquist cowboy is as weird and wonderful as you'd expect.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      Thanks for the info! Those Terhune Range Busters films may have justified the whole lot!

    • @analogueanorak1904
      @analogueanorak1904 Před 5 měsíci

      If I had bought all of those Western DVDs, the cowboy ventriloquist and dummy one would have definitely been the first one in my player!

  • @bretmccormick1912
    @bretmccormick1912 Před 5 měsíci +4

    In the 70s in Fort Worth, TX on Camp Bowie Blvd. There was a bar called Quick Draw and their deal was they played old B-westerns. Lots of Bob Steele. That was back in the days of the nationwide nostalgia craze.

  • @devononair
    @devononair Před 4 měsíci

    What an interesting collection, especially when so many are sealed! It's pretty cool that this is a curated collection of westerns. It's a great example of a collection rather than a hoard!

  • @TimW-tq2ko
    @TimW-tq2ko Před 5 měsíci +6

    These old western DVDs are great! I have a lot of these films in those 50 or 100 movie packs. You get the movies but you lose out on the cool artwork. I put the ones I do have as individual discs in sleeves.

  • @HECTORMONTALVO-le9cn
    @HECTORMONTALVO-le9cn Před 5 měsíci +5

    WOW! That's a huge acquisition for your collection. The only time I did something like that but at half the scale was when I bought 150 Severin DVD titles during one of their sales. Good showing and cool video Heath!👉🙂👈

  • @scaps2200
    @scaps2200 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Love the artwork on some of those older movies.

  • @richconroy5559
    @richconroy5559 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I never thought I'd say this, heath, but you're making the idea of sleeving some DVDs pretty appealing right now

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      I love it and highly recommend it for discs in single cases without elaborate packaging or bonus goodies.

  • @charlest.tatumjr.7241
    @charlest.tatumjr.7241 Před 5 měsíci +4

    This is all sorts of awesome! I had all of John Wayne’s ‘30’s B’s on VHS and loved them all. Fun stuff to go through!

  • @TheKKVB
    @TheKKVB Před 5 měsíci +5

    I actually own some of the Alpha Video DVDs. I love their stuff.

  • @michaelschmidt7980
    @michaelschmidt7980 Před 5 měsíci +6

    Nice seeing such a big collection now in good hands! I don't know, what they're about, we didn't have those here ein Germany, but I dig the coverart... in those sleeves, thy look like vintage comic books. 🙂 Congrats.

  • @FreezeInfinite
    @FreezeInfinite Před 5 měsíci

    This channel is a gift. Thanks for all your uploads. I've discovered so much here.

  • @devonbrooks246
    @devonbrooks246 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Heath that collection is amazing. I think Quentin Tarantino will be calling you for some source material one day. I don’t know if you are allowed to do this or if it will cost you money, could you place some of these old westerns on your channel and have your own commentaries while we all watch? I know you want to keep these alive but in some way have your own western channel?

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +4

      The movies would have to be in the public domain (which most of these are) and would also have to have no watermarks. I'm not sure about a western channel, but someone suggested I do audio commentaries for some of these old movies and I like that idea. We'll have to see what the future holds!

  • @user-zd9yn5mz1f
    @user-zd9yn5mz1f Před 5 měsíci

    Looks like a wellspring of potential terrific material. Great entertainment to go to between big feature viewing. I find these classic westerns are great at the end of a busy day. Pop one of these bad boys in and they are almost always enjoyable. Can't pass up a great deal! Enjoy!

  • @marklafrance8141
    @marklafrance8141 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Excellent Collection! Very Exciting Indeed. You're in for some fun viewing these! I love the old tv Westerns.

  • @GameJunctionMedia
    @GameJunctionMedia Před 5 měsíci +1

    Now THAT'S a collection!

  • @sofa747
    @sofa747 Před 5 měsíci +1

    my mom (72 yr old) would love those old westerns

  • @MOTU1978cl
    @MOTU1978cl Před 5 měsíci +3

    WOW! Congratulations on such a beautiful haul.

  • @patrickt6642
    @patrickt6642 Před 3 měsíci

    Bob Steele was in a couple of john Wayne's movie when he got old.it was like a passing of the torch.

  • @eiadtarabulsi
    @eiadtarabulsi Před 5 měsíci +3

    Thanks, Heath! God bless and stay safe!

  • @MediaArchiveMike
    @MediaArchiveMike Před 5 měsíci

    The Bold Caballero starring Robert Livingston is very significant in that is the first Zorro movie shot in two strip technicolor and with sound. For many years the color version was thought to be lost, it was found and what you have on that DVD is the color version, I have an old black and white version on VHS as well as a DVD of the color version. Yes I did enjoy this movie as I think you will as well.

  • @noelmaldonado7124
    @noelmaldonado7124 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Awesome collection

  • @roberthealey526
    @roberthealey526 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Great movie etc haul Heath happy trails exploring them all!

  • @daveac
    @daveac Před 5 měsíci +1

    Great! Never seen so many 'Ten Gallon' Hats! :-) a sprinkling of great actors in there too. Thanks

  • @dc_animal
    @dc_animal Před 5 měsíci

    That's one helluva haul there Heath! Fantastic score!

  • @444chroma
    @444chroma Před 5 měsíci

    I'm glad these found a good home. I know you will appreciate them Heath

  • @thepagemaster2963
    @thepagemaster2963 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Wow! Roy Rogers is one of my favorites. There’s a movie ..Son of Trigger, I swear they just made horses actually fight in that one. I remember jumping when trigger got clopped in the face and was close to tears when they said he was blind. But he still went out and fought the bad horse in the end. Good stuff. Also crazy stunts. All of them are professional horse handlers and circus performers

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      The real horse abuse in a lot of these old westerns is really troubling. Hopefully the equestrian combat in that Roy Rogers movie was mostly screen magic!

    • @thepagemaster2963
      @thepagemaster2963 Před 5 měsíci

      @@CerealAtMidnight I’m sure it was. Roy wouldn’t risk hurting his best friend trigger

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      There were 726 Triggers! Just kidding. Probably.

  • @josephpoole1497
    @josephpoole1497 Před 5 měsíci

    Looks great. Glad you are excited. Looking at that haul makes me anxious. I wouldn't be able to cope with that many genre-specific movies.

  • @994pt4
    @994pt4 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Sick!
    Nice haul!!!

  • @lior-h
    @lior-h Před 5 měsíci

    This is wonderful! Really cool stuff.

  • @wowster-so8sx
    @wowster-so8sx Před 5 měsíci +1

    That haul is a channel in itself.

  • @DregHeaps
    @DregHeaps Před 5 měsíci +1

    I know Kino and Arrow dabble, but my bold prediction is that the boutique label world is gonna go nuts on these kind of movies after they run out of hong kong action movies lol. Only after 11 more shaw brothers boxsets though

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +2

      One can hope, right? I'd like to be on the bleeding edge of that trend! And hey, maybe I can have a book written about it by the time it happens!

  • @dustbin5044
    @dustbin5044 Před 5 měsíci

    My favorite finds are double features. Double features are what makes Drive-In, Grindhouse, and Midnight movie watching fun. I think I own all of MGM's Midnight movie double features. This is how I built up the bulk of my movie collection. There are times I think I am overdoing it collecting blu-rays and 4K's, because I always find myself putting on those old Alpha Video or Image Entertainment DVD's when I'm actually watching movies. The artwork is so much nicer, and the snapper cases have double sided artwork or a brief essay about the movie. I like finding the Anchor Bay Hammer and Drive-In double features, but some of them are miserably expensive online.

  • @kkplayrush
    @kkplayrush Před 5 měsíci +2

    Damn...this is a great pickup...

  • @dansmith3085
    @dansmith3085 Před 5 měsíci

    I have some Alpha releases of old crime and gangster movies. A bit over a year ago I bought a 300 plus CD collection of mostly classical music. I'm still going through it.

  • @JJUniverseChannel
    @JJUniverseChannel Před 5 měsíci +1

    Wow 😮 other than awesome video man 😎!

  • @doktorgoulfinger
    @doktorgoulfinger Před 5 měsíci +1

    Others may have covered some of this in the comments below...but just in case
    There were 24 Range Busters films in all, with folks drifting in and out of the line-up over the course of the series. Only Max (Alibi) Terhune - and his dummy Elmer - appeared in all 24 installments. There are a few films in which Elmer appears to have acquired self-awareness and presents as a sentient, independent being. Keep an eye out for those, they're pretty creepy, if you're in the right mood. All of the Monogram Range Busters appeared at one time or another as one of the Three Mesquiteers over at Republic. I'd have to look this up to confirm, but I'm pretty sure the main line-up of Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Dusty King and Max Terhune appeared together as a team in both series. A lot of these B's were filmed at The Corrigan Ranch - so he was getting paychecks from both ends. You're going to become very familiar with the twin beer signs outside the barroom entrance.
    I'm a big fan of the trio western series: Range Busters, Three Mesquiteers, Rough Riders (with Buck Jones and Tim McCoy), Trail Blazers (which featured Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Tom Steele among the teams).
    Also gotta love Johnny Mack Brown, owner/operator of the most devastating haymake West of Gower Gulch.
    Have fun! And thanks for continuing to highlight these lively films.
    Any copies of "Mystery Mountain" left? I've been meaning to order that from one source or another for a while.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      Thanks for typing all this out! The only trio westerns I had before now were the John Wayne entries from the Three Mesquiteers films--and not even all of those.
      I'll send you a copy of Mystery Mountain, still sealed. Do you have a U.S. address? Email me at CerealMidnight@gmail.com and I'll get it out this week.

  • @thepagemaster2963
    @thepagemaster2963 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Gabby Hayes always reminded me of earnest from Jim varney

  • @damianp564
    @damianp564 Před 5 měsíci

    Yes on speaking with Sam Sherman. Would love to see him on Cereal At Midnight. Met him once. Super nice.

  • @Sampson.entertainment
    @Sampson.entertainment Před 5 měsíci

    Great pickups Heath, depending on the price.

  • @dfc99nyc
    @dfc99nyc Před 5 měsíci

    I grew up in the 1960s and 70s in NYC. I think by then the popularity of westerns was fading with fewer westerns on TV every year. What we did watch on TV were the movies of the 1930s and 1940s many of which I now own on BD/DVD. Grainy b/w prints cut up with commercials but that's where I started to love these movies. I was so happy to buy the VHS of Casablanca, it looked better on my TV than any broadcast of it ever did. Citizen Kane used to be broadcast on WOR-TV in NYC. An awful dark muddy print but that's all that was around back then. It's only when I bought the restored version on DVD in 2001 that I could fully appreciate that movie. Even the VHS versions of Citizen Kane were all pretty bad starting with the first Nostalgia Merchant release (catalog# VH8002), and even the last official VHS release on the Turner (catalog# 2053) label was poor.

  • @jonathanrogers6720
    @jonathanrogers6720 Před 5 měsíci

    That is awesome!!! I love westerns. Have a huge collection of them. Ken Maynard was born not to far from where i live. Im in a cowboy reenacting group and we do an event there for Ken Maynard Days.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      That's awesome! I may have to come visit during Ken Maynard Days one year.

  • @bretmccormick1912
    @bretmccormick1912 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Edgar G Ulmer - Texas cheapies- Amazing Transparent Man and Beyond the Time Barrier.

  • @user-up3nn6hl6j
    @user-up3nn6hl6j Před 5 měsíci +1

    1. I hope your wife is very understanding 2. I hope your floor is reinforced...Love the last ride Hank shirt!

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      She was super-encouraging that I buy them, which is just further proof that she's the best. Thankfully, the sleeved DVDs (see later in this video) take up almost no room and weight very little!

    • @user-up3nn6hl6j
      @user-up3nn6hl6j Před 5 měsíci

      I have so much stuff between albums,45"s.blu rays and cd"s that I went to Home Depot and invested in some Jack Post"s for the basement, Peace of mind!@@CerealAtMidnight

  • @johnm.withersiv4352
    @johnm.withersiv4352 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I've never seen Mystery Mountain but would check it out. I enjoy a classic Western from time to time.

    • @johnm.withersiv4352
      @johnm.withersiv4352 Před 5 měsíci +1

      I want to know more about the Underground Rustlers and that ventriloquist dummy. That was a generation before Shotgun Red (a puppet) hit Hee Haw and later TNN.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      So I've done a little bit of digging and the Range Busters series (24 movies, I think) consisted of three leads, one of whom was a ventriloquist. Both he and his dummy were part of the team!

    • @johnm.withersiv4352
      @johnm.withersiv4352 Před 5 měsíci

      @@CerealAtMidnight This is news to me and I'm digging it. Thanks for the research. I hope you begin your epic career long exploration of these cool movies with the Range Busters.
      I'm a tad biased since I saw Shotgun Red perform on a riverboat once.
      Last weekend I traveled across the state to see Randy Feltface--an Australian puppet stand up comedian act.
      The world needs more ventriloquist acts too!

  • @Gorilla_Jones
    @Gorilla_Jones Před 5 měsíci

    😮
    I'd find room for the cases. 😁

  • @zacharyrhein5425
    @zacharyrhein5425 Před 5 měsíci +1

    If you ever find a copy of the western The Sunset Princess from 1918 I would love to know how it looks.

  • @carlcleary3179
    @carlcleary3179 Před 3 měsíci

    Alpha DVD's are so nice.I can't believe you to throw them away

  • @scaps2200
    @scaps2200 Před 5 měsíci

    Nice Buster Crab (flash gordon, buck rogers, Tarzan) westerns!

  • @marcoesquandolez4737
    @marcoesquandolez4737 Před 5 měsíci +1

    how could possibly watch all those?! That being said, very cool and you'll have fun trying!

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      I'll say this, it seems like more than it is. Most of the movies are under an hour, so they're like an episode of television. Last night I managed to knock out a film noir AND one of these old westerns in 2 1/2 hours, which is the length of most modern movies now. It's still a lot, but it's not insurmountable. Also, because they're so low budget, they go down pretty easily. They're like potato chips.

  • @airblazerfoodgamingandrevi2952
    @airblazerfoodgamingandrevi2952 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Im aslo buying a 300 movie set

  • @dustbin5044
    @dustbin5044 Před 5 měsíci

    There are silent movies that the only way to watch them is on Alpha Video DVD's. Eyes of the Mummy (1918) for example. Bela Lugosi's first movie, Daughter of the Night (1921) I never would have discovered without Alpha Video and AV's prints are public domain they can be aired on character hosting shows, like Elvira or Zacherly.

  • @cyberius7042
    @cyberius7042 Před 5 měsíci +2

    I'd be interested in your duplicates.

  • @airblazerfoodgamingandrevi2952
    @airblazerfoodgamingandrevi2952 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Im aslo getting a 300 movie set

  • @ssosmcin
    @ssosmcin Před 5 měsíci

    Alpha Video has some amazing obscure stuff. Old films struck from collectors 16 mm reels. I would guess all of their stuff is in the public domain, but what really bothers me is that over time they started putting their logo in the bottom right corner of the screen. It would come and go. I never was happy with that.
    Amazing haul!

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      I'm not a fan of watermarks, either. I know they want to protect their preservation work to keep their prints from being stolen, but it's sad for us movie fans who don't love seeing a brand on our films.

  • @MetrObeliskRadio
    @MetrObeliskRadio Před 5 měsíci

    Heath, you should do a giveaway of your duplicates. There might be people out there (myself included) who are really into B-Westerns like yourself

  • @scaps2200
    @scaps2200 Před 5 měsíci +2

    DVD? What no 4k?! Just kidding. I buy DVD's all the time.

  • @Blankford777
    @Blankford777 Před 5 měsíci

    True Lies and Abyss 4K pre-orders dropped today. Are you planning on doing a video when they release and how they blus/4K have been delayed for years by Cameron? It’s been a saga. I never thought we’d see the day!

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      Honestly, I'll probably leave that to the other channels. That's right up Jeff's alley over at Films At Home and I'm sure he'll have a first look.

  • @daveac
    @daveac Před 5 měsíci +2

    One question - you mention towards the end of the video 'I'm going to watch these for the rest of my life' Do you have/keep at least one DVD/Blu-Ray player (still boxed) that you have put away as a spare playback device? Maybe in 10 years or so they won't be for sale/available new. Or do you think that's not the case?

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +4

      I think DVD players will always be available and will never go away. This comes up from time to time and I like to point out that I can still buy a brand new 3.5 floppy disc drive, 8-track player, and blank cassette tapes, decades after those technologies bit the dust. I just bought a brand new Mac DVD drive for my laptop over the Christmas holidays. DVD is not only not a dead technology, it's the highest selling physical media format. As long as there's money to be made from the millions of DVD customers all over the world, I truly believe someone will make a player.

    • @dfc99nyc
      @dfc99nyc Před 5 měsíci

      Stand-alone DVD players are rare but of course every Blu-ray player sold plays and upscales DVDs. But it seems like manufacturers of Blu-ray players don't come out with new players every year for whatever reason. @@CerealAtMidnight

  • @realtravisblaine
    @realtravisblaine Před 5 měsíci +1

    How do you handle the non-anamorphic widescreen DVDs? I found that using the zoom function on a 16:9 TV for anything larger than about 40" isn't really watchable as the pixels take over the image. I guess I could watch them on my 20" Sony CRT, but the big screen is more fun. This is why, while I don't mind watching DVD, I shy away if I can't 100% confirm that it is anamorphic or the original aspect ratio is 4:3.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +3

      I honestly can't recall the last DVD I watched that wasn't anamorphic. Most of these old movies that I'm watching were shot in 4:3, so that hasn't been an issue.

    • @realtravisblaine
      @realtravisblaine Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@CerealAtMidnight It seems like the last few I've bought at Thrift Stores / Pawn Shops / Big Lots have been non-anamorphic...even major titles like "The Abyss." That's why I try to stick with Blu-ray when out hunting...don't want to get home and be disappointed. The only ones I know I'm safe with are the Warner Archive MOD discs as all the ones I've found at thrift stores so far (~8 widescreen) have all be anamorphic.

  • @user-uy2oh5vv3w
    @user-uy2oh5vv3w Před 5 měsíci +1

    Dam Heath that was a must buy...........TRUE entertainment...........So dam COOL....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @connorstephens7467
    @connorstephens7467 Před 5 měsíci

    Do any of these have a Blu-ray by now?

  • @StarryKat
    @StarryKat Před 5 měsíci

    Maybe you can review or showcase a western film each Wednesday, for #westernwednesdays!

  • @damianp564
    @damianp564 Před 5 měsíci

    Always a mixed bag with Alpha but those are some uncommon titles so I get the want. I was always fine with their transfers on the old tube TV but some months back I popped in a Sheena disc on the 4K and it was pretty wretched. Washed out and harshly compressed. An Alpha horror title from the 70s I also checked out fared better.

  • @mikemoore5263
    @mikemoore5263 Před 5 měsíci +2

    What the quality of those Alpha Video releases? They are really cheap on Deep Discount, but I have not pulled the trigger on any? Like are they watchable on a big screen 4k TV?

    • @patrickt6642
      @patrickt6642 Před 5 měsíci +2

      The ones I've got in past were vhs quality.probably wouldn't look good on 4ktv.

    • @HECTORMONTALVO-le9cn
      @HECTORMONTALVO-le9cn Před 5 měsíci

      I've a few Alpha titles on DVD and they look like SP speed VHS rips on a CRT on 4K they'll look even worse.🤔

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +3

      Not great. Usually about a 4/10. In many cases, these old movies only survive on video tape dubs from 16 mm prints. Sometimes they're also kinescopes, which is a camera pointed at a screen. But as rough as that sounds, Alpha Video often has the best prints available, out of everyone. Their work with Sam Sherman is as close to being sourced from original elements as some of these old poverty row movies will ever get.

  • @sunsandshadowscast
    @sunsandshadowscast Před 5 měsíci

    Hey.... so which sleeves do you recommend for anyone looking to slim down their dvd collection? ... asking for a friend! ;)

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      I prefer Tarifold brand. They're a little bigger in size than their competitors, but that means you don't have to fold the spine of the DVD or Blu-ray case in half to make it fit. After my first video about it, Tarifold reached out and offered a discount to Cereal At Midnight viewers. It doesn't benefit me in any way, but it will save you a little dough if you buy directly from them. Alternately, if you buy them through Amazon, I get a small commission if you use my affiliate link.
      15% off an order at T3Lshop.com using code CAM15.
      Or--
      Tarifold DVD Protective Sleeves (Amazon): amzn.to/3WJt5jv
      Tarifold Blu-ray Protective Sleeves (Amazon): amzn.to/3HIzTsu

    • @sunsandshadowscast
      @sunsandshadowscast Před 5 měsíci

      @@CerealAtMidnight thank you kindly!

    • @ryanmfrancis
      @ryanmfrancis Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@CerealAtMidnightthanks for sharing this! Placed an order through their website for some sleeves and binders. Sorry about no commission, but I did leave a note for customer service that you sent me. Hopefully they hook you up with some free stuff 😊

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      Awesome! I hope the sleeves make your life a little easier.

  • @brucster99b2
    @brucster99b2 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Darn tooting... you'll need a bag or two of jerky to wade yer way through that lot! Alpha video?? Hmmm... I think I might have some ancient horror film on the label, but I tend to 🐂 clear of them usually. But ya know what yer gonna git with 'em. So..., "you pays yer money...".

  • @gtrdaz6611
    @gtrdaz6611 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Nice haul Heath! Can I purchase the empty cases from you when you sleeve them?😉

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      I wish someone would. I've tried to sell them, but people don't want them so now I'm just throwing them away. I looked into recycling but that's not an option here.

    • @Hey-Its-Retro
      @Hey-Its-Retro Před 5 měsíci

      Donate them to your local 'thrift' stores.
      I used to work at Blockbuster here in the UK and our shop got rid of 100s of DVD cases due to a change in Company policy, which were all going to end up as landfill.
      I took them round to some of the local charity shops and they were happy to bundle them up 10 for a Quid or something like that...

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      My thrift store won't take empty cases, they throw them away.

    • @Hey-Its-Retro
      @Hey-Its-Retro Před 5 měsíci

      @@CerealAtMidnightThanks for your reply... pity about the cases but I suppose they've got to prioritise their space these days and I was at "The 'busters" over a decade ago where more folk were probably after empty DVD cases anyway.
      P.S. loved the video and you ROCK and that's OFFICIAL!

  • @davidbruening6405
    @davidbruening6405 Před 5 měsíci

    The big question - how much for 300 western DVDs?

  • @tchpse1
    @tchpse1 Před 5 měsíci

    I wonder what the story is behind all these. The person clearly spent a lot of time selecting these, yet none watched? Like others have commented, I haven’t heard of a single one of these over 10 minutes in!

  • @Malvito
    @Malvito Před 5 měsíci

    This video may be In Color, but is it In Living Color ... On NBC? (Cue Color Palette Peacock)
    An interview with Samuel Sherman would be too cool; by all means, let's see it!!!
    (I must express amusement at a title like "Boots of Destiny"; reminds me of the Lon Chaney Jr INNER SANCTUM title, "Pillow of Death", which brings to mind the possibility of a series of genteel, refined British mysteries with titles like "Doily of Blood" or "Teacup of Terror" or something like that.)
    By the time you said "completely boxed in", I pictured a thumbnail of your clutching hand emerging from a pile of DVD cases like an image out of Tales From The Crypt.

  • @DamnFoolIdealisticCrusader
    @DamnFoolIdealisticCrusader Před 5 měsíci

    You’re brave to pick up so many Alpha Video discs at once. I hope it didn’t cost so much. It really and truly sucks when Alpha is the only physical media option for a lesser known title as they are just about the bottom of the barrel for quality.
    It is rare for an Alpha version to be solid or better than other options but it does occasionally happen. Every one I’ve ever picked up has been a total roll of the dice because you never know what quality to expect. I’ve had ones be watchable or halfway decent and then others are among the absolute worst presentations I’ve ever seen on any format and make even bad CZcams uploads of PD materials look good.
    And then there’s those awful stinky cheap plastic cases on a lot of them! Those drive me nuts so hopefully this lot is mostly the better standard cases.
    For me the biggest thing Alpha has are various serials that don’t have any other releases but even those I’ve tried are usually deplorable quality. Their discs for Don Winslow of the Navy for example are among the worst transfers I’ve ever seen.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      Quality is definitely below par, but for so many of these public domain movies, what's on Alpha Video discs is often better than the prints that Mill Creek included on their 50 movie packs back in the day, and they're definitely better than what ends up on CZcams, which can often be stretched, zoomed, and compressed to oblivion. What I've watched so far has been "watchable," and that's about all I can ask for with most of these, considering the obscurity of the pictures, the lack of source elements, and the poor treatment of these films for the past 40 years.
      Thanks so much for commenting, Crusader!

  • @iloveblue7920
    @iloveblue7920 Před 5 měsíci

    Why if you dont know whats in the box

  • @Daniel_B_23
    @Daniel_B_23 Před 5 měsíci +2

    First

  • @michaelmcgee8543
    @michaelmcgee8543 Před 5 měsíci

    Sorry I got to watych my Blu-ray physical media, Pina, right now. bye!

  • @zombiefulci3301
    @zombiefulci3301 Před 5 měsíci

    3 dollars well spent but I wouldn't have paid $4 for that set which should be torture viewing

  • @ajzeg01
    @ajzeg01 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I thought you said not to buy big lots of movies?

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +5

      You talking about that video from years ago? If we're talking about the same one, my point was not to buy things you don't want just to have a lot of things on your shelf in in hopes of impressing people. But listen, in seven years, a person changes a lot. I don't even feel the same about some of the things I said six months ago, let alone five or six years ago. These westerns are a big part of my focus these days and I will watch every one of them.

    • @ajzeg01
      @ajzeg01 Před 5 měsíci

      @@CerealAtMidnightFair enough!

  • @popretro1
    @popretro1 Před 5 měsíci +2

    LEAVE THEM SEALED & GET THEM GRADED!!!!! hehe
    Great pick-up! Nice mix of all types of forms - movies, TV, serials...what a score!

    • @robertt9342
      @robertt9342 Před 5 měsíci +5

      What a waste. They aren’t sports cards. Also how do you determine condition without opening it? At least with comics they open sealed books to determine condition. Or is this just a case of people valuing the cases and covers and not caring about content whatsoever.

  • @TrickyBloodSin
    @TrickyBloodSin Před 5 měsíci +3

    This guy is gonna bury himself in movies

    • @johnm.withersiv4352
      @johnm.withersiv4352 Před 5 měsíci +4

      It'd make a nice thumbnail. Like the American Beauty poster, but with Heath and classic DVDs in sleeves.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci

      It's all good, for everything that comes in, things are going out, too. With my method of storing catalog titles in sleeves, I'm freeing up more room than I've had in years.
      On this poster, would I be naked like on the American Beauty poster? If so, I need to get some Ozempic.

  • @MyFireVideos
    @MyFireVideos Před 5 měsíci +4

    YeAh, bUT dO tHEy hAvE sLiPcovERs?!😲

  • @kenpope5798
    @kenpope5798 Před 5 měsíci

    Did you not just make a video saying you were cutting back because you are totally out of room even with sleeping 🙀🙀🙀 wat was a reasonable price? No Range Rider or Kit Carson ?

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      I can't win with some of y'all.

    • @kenpope5798
      @kenpope5798 Před 5 měsíci

      @@CerealAtMidnight I know some deals are too good to pass up!! It was just interesting the timing of this and the other video . I find myself doing the same thing saying no more and then having to eat my words. That is the collecting illness ( or fun) depending on how you look at it.

  • @charliecervas5504
    @charliecervas5504 Před 5 měsíci +1

    We got it all on UHF...

  • @ThiKu
    @ThiKu Před 5 měsíci +1

    …..why???

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +2

      Because I love it and this is one of my particular areas of interest these days.

  • @Eric-vt8ns
    @Eric-vt8ns Před 5 měsíci

    This video is some legit DVD ASMR!! Intentional?? If not you may have a budding new video type 😂

  • @WRKFLO
    @WRKFLO Před 5 měsíci

    the relapse is real. must've been a deal, because havent u been saying youre not gonna buy bulk due to space 😂?? great score. SEEEEAAALED... oh not sealed anymore. lol

  • @BuckRolly1
    @BuckRolly1 Před 5 měsíci

    Such a waste of cases...

  • @joshua2814
    @joshua2814 Před 5 měsíci

    You'll definitely be passing me in Roy Rogers viewing now. Still, you're clearly anti-physical media.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      That dude from Blu-ray dot com told me I didn't love physical media the day after I bought all these movies. I don't know why some of us feel the need to try to put people in boxes or keep them out of fandom. But then, that's kind of their whole deal over on that site. They make hundreds of thousands of dollars from the "us VS them" mentality. Divide and profit.

  • @kingvidiot66
    @kingvidiot66 Před 5 měsíci

    No disrespect but most of the Alpha releases I purchased were such garbage I put them in the garage sale. Public domain from any source they could get their hands on.

    • @CerealAtMidnight
      @CerealAtMidnight  Před 5 měsíci +1

      The sad truth is that for many public domain movies, this is the best we'll ever get. There are often no source elements, and even if there were, it doesn't make a lot of sense for someone to restore them if their work can be stolen due to the lack of copyright on the film.

  • @michaelmcgee8543
    @michaelmcgee8543 Před 5 měsíci

    Alpha videos are poor quality.

  • @aarongilmore1254
    @aarongilmore1254 Před 5 měsíci +3

    You always complain about your lack of space or talk about not just consuming and then do things like this just to make content. How about walk your own walk instead

    • @robertt9342
      @robertt9342 Před 5 měsíci +1

      That’s a bit harsh but it does seem to be a confusing lack of consistency.

    • @intake_cinema
      @intake_cinema Před 5 měsíci +12

      I would say you have a decent argument on your hands, IF Heath had purchased 300 random titles but these are Heath's special area of interest. Space wise, he mentions here that he is putting them in sleeves.

    • @ThiKu
      @ThiKu Před 5 měsíci +2

      He will one day go “….ooohhhhh!” And sell almost all of it because he’s got hoarder tendencies but not quite an actual hoarder.

    • @cwillism
      @cwillism Před 5 měsíci +3

      Maybe read your last sentence again

    • @aarongilmore1254
      @aarongilmore1254 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@intake_cinema ok fair I see ur point