129   27 Jan 2024



Dear All -

Hope you're all OK and that you had an enjoyable Festive Season.

Just a note to let you know that I have restarted eBay listings -

H2G2_AW_209

H2G2_AW_210

H2G2_AW_211

H2G2_AW_212

Following on will be the Rotring pen tracings on clear animation cels and a dope sheet from the sequence which ends with a Pan-Dimensional Being becoming a mouse.

By sheer chance a couple of days ago I stumbled across the web site of a bunch called Propstore operating in LA and London. This was because in summer last year they auctioned a couple of H2G2 cels - Vogons and Ford Prefect. I was amused to see that the package offered included specific photos of 3 strips of 35 mm film.

These strips were what we used to call "strengtheners". They were actually "gash" 35 mm film that we used to get free in very large rolls from Ranks Laboratories in Denham. If we didn't take it off them it went into a big refuse skip. We then punched holes in these strips which fitted the rostrum camera registration pegs, cut them into strips, and used Sellotape to fix them to animation key paper, animation cels, and photoliths.

Noticing the estimated value of the Lot I just hope that whoever was bidding didn't think these scrap bits were of any significance and add dollars for them. The link below will let you see the old web page ... well, it does on my desktop ... but not on my old iPad Air which produces a blank page. I've included the 2nd link to a PDF on my own site in case you encounter the same problem.

Propstore page

PDF from my own site

I would love to be able to find out what the winning bid was ! I've asked Propstore if they would indulge my curiosity but have been ignored. Oh well ...

Once again the occasional search on eBay for "H2G2_" should do it for any who are interested and I will also keep the Hitch-Hikers page on my web site updated -

www.rodlord.com/PAGES/h2g2.html

Take care -

Rod


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