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Hi, I am new to this web site, but have been told this is the place to come to for answers to my questions. I am a filmmaker who has come into possession of a large collection of vintage porn films. The collection has nearly a thousand films and range in era from the 1920s-1960s. The films are in both color and black & white and are absolute hard core. The quality of the film images range from excellent to poor, but over 90% of the collection (approx. 800 films) has either an excellent or very good image quality. Likewise the collection's "scenarios" range from straight one on one sex through to full blown orgies-- and everything in between (early interracial, the occasional gangbang, 2 girls 1 guy, 2 guys 1 girl, etc.). Most of the films seem to be "amateur" in nature and each is approx. 12 min. in length.
I have transferred all films to high quality digital video and met with a copyright attorney and weeded out any films that may have potentially been a copyright liability.
AND NOW, I'm stuck.
I was hoping that someone may have opinions on how next to proceed with this project. I have been told that there is an expanding market for "classics" and that my options are: 1. Selling off collection to a company specializing in this area, or 2. Building out the business myself.
I have no idea if there is real money in this or not. Would anyone have any ball park guess as to the value of something like this? Is it better to sell off the collection or build out the business myself offering the films to sites as VOD and/or DVD? What are typical DVD sales figures or VOD download figures for this market?
Anyway, I'm lost and greatly appreciate any guidance or leads anyone may have on this project.
Also, in transferring to digital video, I made the image 4x3, does anyone have any thoughts regarding 16x9?
Thank you very much for any advice or tips anyone may have,
Christian