1 00:00:03,337 --> 00:00:04,336 ♪ ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:04,405 --> 00:00:06,538 [phone rings] 3 00:00:06,740 --> 00:00:07,873 MIKE: Dani D, what's up? 4 00:00:08,075 --> 00:00:10,009 DANIELLE: Hey Mike, how's my lone wolf today? 5 00:00:10,211 --> 00:00:12,945 MIKE: I am doing good, I finally got out of the traffic 6 00:00:13,147 --> 00:00:15,414 over here, and I'm making my way over to this pick. 7 00:00:15,483 --> 00:00:17,149 DANIELLE: Awesome. 8 00:00:17,218 --> 00:00:18,617 Listen, did you get a chance to read that email I sent you? 9 00:00:18,685 --> 00:00:20,752 MIKE: Uh, Charles Hulcher... 10 00:00:20,821 --> 00:00:22,821 developed the high-speed camera, and... 11 00:00:23,023 --> 00:00:25,491 I'm going to ask for a lady named Betty...? 12 00:00:25,959 --> 00:00:26,892 DANIELLE: Wow, I'm impressed, you actually 13 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:28,694 had your coffee this morning, didn't ya? 14 00:00:28,896 --> 00:00:31,163 MIKE: [chuckles] way too much coffee. 15 00:00:31,231 --> 00:00:32,697 DANIELLE: This is going to be a really fun pick for you, 16 00:00:32,766 --> 00:00:33,898 I think you're going to like it. 17 00:00:33,967 --> 00:00:34,900 MIKE: I think I'm just a few minutes away, 18 00:00:34,968 --> 00:00:37,702 if you want let them know I'm-I'm close. 19 00:00:38,239 --> 00:00:39,304 DANIELLE: Yeah, I already talked to him. They said walk 20 00:00:39,372 --> 00:00:41,506 in the front door, Betty's going to be waiting for you. 21 00:00:41,575 --> 00:00:42,707 MIKE: Alright, thanks! 22 00:00:42,776 --> 00:00:43,575 DANIELLE: Oh hey, one more thing - 23 00:00:43,643 --> 00:00:44,910 I have 2 appraisers coming in today. 24 00:00:44,979 --> 00:00:46,111 We're going to get the Beatles stuff appraised, 25 00:00:46,180 --> 00:00:47,980 and then we're also going to have one of Robbie's friends 26 00:00:48,048 --> 00:00:50,582 come in and appraise the Paul Stanley artwork. 27 00:00:51,118 --> 00:00:53,318 So cross your fingers, man, let's hope we did okay. 28 00:00:53,386 --> 00:00:53,852 [laughing] 29 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:54,853 MIKE: Alright cool. 30 00:00:54,922 --> 00:00:55,320 DANIELLE: Alright, I will see you later. 31 00:00:55,388 --> 00:00:56,989 MIKE: Bye. 32 00:01:00,327 --> 00:01:06,665 ♪ ♪ ♪ 33 00:01:06,734 --> 00:01:08,066 MIKE: Driving up to this building, 34 00:01:08,135 --> 00:01:12,004 you cannot help but notice, the tower on top of it. 35 00:01:12,472 --> 00:01:13,272 MIKE: Betty. 36 00:01:13,474 --> 00:01:15,340 BETTY: Yes. 37 00:01:15,408 --> 00:01:15,741 MIKE: Hey. 38 00:01:15,809 --> 00:01:16,341 BETTY: Hey. 39 00:01:16,544 --> 00:01:16,875 MIKE: I'm Mike. 40 00:01:16,944 --> 00:01:17,876 BETTY: I'm Betty. 41 00:01:17,945 --> 00:01:18,810 MIKE: You talked to Danielle on the phone? 42 00:01:18,879 --> 00:01:19,745 BETTY: It's really nice to meet you. 43 00:01:19,813 --> 00:01:20,745 MIKE: Nice to meet you, yeah. 44 00:01:20,814 --> 00:01:22,747 Did you guys build this building? 45 00:01:22,816 --> 00:01:24,016 BETTY: Mr. Hulcher did. He built- 46 00:01:24,084 --> 00:01:25,551 MIKE: 'Cause I saw on the top when I pulled up, 47 00:01:25,753 --> 00:01:26,818 it was like a lighthouse. 48 00:01:26,887 --> 00:01:28,420 BETTY: Yeah. It had a cupola on top. 49 00:01:28,488 --> 00:01:29,822 MIKE: Ohh okay. 50 00:01:30,024 --> 00:01:32,758 BETTY: And he built upstairs like that so we 51 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:35,294 could go out there and test our cameras. 52 00:01:35,496 --> 00:01:36,294 MIKE: Really!? 53 00:01:36,363 --> 00:01:37,296 BETTY: Yeah. 54 00:01:37,498 --> 00:01:38,496 MIKE: It was more than an architectural detail, 55 00:01:38,565 --> 00:01:39,631 it was functional. 56 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:42,834 It was part of Charles Hulcher's vision for his company. 57 00:01:42,903 --> 00:01:44,970 BETTY: We made high-speed sequence cameras. 58 00:01:45,038 --> 00:01:48,707 When Mr. Hulcher first invented this camera, 59 00:01:48,776 --> 00:01:52,043 everybody just went wild over it. 60 00:01:52,113 --> 00:01:56,314 BETTY: Mr. Hulcher invented the camera in about 1952. 61 00:01:56,383 --> 00:01:57,182 MIKE: Okay. 62 00:01:57,251 --> 00:01:59,784 BETTY: Started his business in 1954. 63 00:01:59,854 --> 00:02:00,852 MIKE: And how long have you been here? 64 00:02:00,921 --> 00:02:03,388 BETTY: I've been here since 1957. [laughs] 65 00:02:03,456 --> 00:02:03,789 MIKE: Really! 66 00:02:03,857 --> 00:02:04,789 BETTY: Yes. 67 00:02:04,858 --> 00:02:05,524 MIKE: Good for you, that's awesome! 68 00:02:05,992 --> 00:02:08,327 BETTY: I was Mr. Hulcher's right-hand man. 69 00:02:08,395 --> 00:02:09,061 [laughing] 70 00:02:09,263 --> 00:02:10,195 MIKE: That's awesome. I love that. 71 00:02:10,263 --> 00:02:11,863 MIKE: It is so cool to me, someone that's done 72 00:02:11,932 --> 00:02:14,599 what they loved for so long, that they've 73 00:02:14,668 --> 00:02:15,868 devoted their life to it. 74 00:02:16,070 --> 00:02:17,335 MIKE: So I want to see one of these cameras. 75 00:02:17,404 --> 00:02:18,269 BETTY: Okay. 76 00:02:18,338 --> 00:02:20,004 MIKE: What looks like a very small building 77 00:02:20,073 --> 00:02:23,942 from the front, just opens up and keeps going until 78 00:02:24,010 --> 00:02:25,611 you hit the back of it, and then it explodes 79 00:02:25,813 --> 00:02:28,147 into this huge machine shop. 80 00:02:28,482 --> 00:02:30,015 BETTY: Gary. 81 00:02:32,486 --> 00:02:32,751 MIKE: Hey-hey! 82 00:02:32,819 --> 00:02:33,418 GARY: Hey. 83 00:02:33,486 --> 00:02:33,819 BETTY: Come here. 84 00:02:33,887 --> 00:02:34,820 TODD: Howdy. 85 00:02:35,022 --> 00:02:36,020 GARY: I started at the company about 1969. 86 00:02:36,089 --> 00:02:38,890 The company was building a lot of cameras back then, 87 00:02:38,959 --> 00:02:40,692 a lot of parts, and they needed a lot of 88 00:02:40,761 --> 00:02:42,494 part-time people to make parts. 89 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:43,295 MIKE: Hey, I'm Mike. 90 00:02:43,364 --> 00:02:44,363 GARY: Yeah. 91 00:02:44,431 --> 00:02:44,896 TODD: Todd. 92 00:02:44,965 --> 00:02:45,630 BETTY: This is Todd. 93 00:02:45,699 --> 00:02:46,365 MIKE: Todd, nice to meet you. 94 00:02:46,433 --> 00:02:47,032 BETTY: Todd. 95 00:02:47,101 --> 00:02:47,966 MIKE: So you guys are still, 96 00:02:48,034 --> 00:02:48,299 still tearing it up back here, huh? 97 00:02:48,368 --> 00:02:49,834 TODD: Yes. 98 00:02:49,904 --> 00:02:50,435 GARY: Oh yeah, still making parts, yeah. 99 00:02:50,638 --> 00:02:50,902 MIKE: Are you really? 100 00:02:50,971 --> 00:02:51,904 GARY: Oh yeah. 101 00:02:52,106 --> 00:02:53,238 MIKE: For your cameras, or what are you doing? 102 00:02:53,307 --> 00:02:54,706 GARY: No, we don't, we actually don't build cameras anymore, 103 00:02:54,775 --> 00:02:57,843 but we do small parts for NASA 104 00:02:57,911 --> 00:02:58,443 and a couple of other laboratories. 105 00:02:58,512 --> 00:02:59,510 MIKE: Wow, really. 106 00:02:59,580 --> 00:03:00,912 GARY: Yeah, oh yeah. 107 00:03:00,981 --> 00:03:02,114 MIKE: So you still have contracts with them. 108 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:03,916 GARY: Back in the 1950s, Mr. Hulcher worked at NASA. 109 00:03:04,118 --> 00:03:06,584 About that same time, we were still trying to 110 00:03:06,653 --> 00:03:08,587 put a satellite in space. 111 00:03:08,789 --> 00:03:09,922 Frequently launching rockets, 112 00:03:10,124 --> 00:03:12,457 but they were having problems on the launch pad. 113 00:03:12,660 --> 00:03:14,126 They were blowing up. 114 00:03:14,194 --> 00:03:17,128 And Mr. Hulcher said, I can develop a camera that will 115 00:03:17,197 --> 00:03:20,932 take pictures so fast, it'll do stop-action photography, 116 00:03:21,001 --> 00:03:22,667 and you could see where your problems are. 117 00:03:23,270 --> 00:03:25,137 GARY: Finally someone said, 'we'll do it.' The next rocket 118 00:03:25,339 --> 00:03:29,207 launch, it blew up, they went back and looked at the film in 119 00:03:29,276 --> 00:03:33,011 sequence, and they could see exactly what caused the blow-up. 120 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:34,345 MIKE: Wow! 121 00:03:34,414 --> 00:03:34,946 GARY: Yeah. 122 00:03:35,015 --> 00:03:35,547 MIKE: That's cutting edge. 123 00:03:35,749 --> 00:03:36,882 GARY: Cutting edge, right. 124 00:03:37,084 --> 00:03:39,884 MIKE: Charles Hulcher's vision, his purpose, 125 00:03:39,954 --> 00:03:42,086 his inspiration, was really about forensics. 126 00:03:42,155 --> 00:03:44,956 He created something for the space industry to visually 127 00:03:45,025 --> 00:03:48,760 analyze a problem that the human eye never could. 128 00:03:48,962 --> 00:03:50,562 GARY: A lot of people would think that, 129 00:03:50,630 --> 00:03:52,164 use that movie camera, 130 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:54,166 you could go back and just pick out a scene and use that. 131 00:03:54,234 --> 00:03:57,302 Not always possible, because it'll most likely be blurry, 132 00:03:57,504 --> 00:03:58,637 gaps in between. 133 00:03:58,839 --> 00:03:59,972 GARY: At each shuttle launch, 134 00:04:00,174 --> 00:04:02,040 they would set up the whole panel of our cameras. 135 00:04:02,108 --> 00:04:05,377 All of them high-speed, 50-75 frames a second. 136 00:04:05,445 --> 00:04:06,978 MIKE: Okay. 137 00:04:07,047 --> 00:04:08,913 GARY: The film on that cameras actually stops 138 00:04:08,982 --> 00:04:11,583 for a millionth of a second, takes the photo, 139 00:04:11,785 --> 00:04:12,784 it advances to the next one. 140 00:04:12,986 --> 00:04:15,053 GARY: So it was absolutely perfectly sharp. 141 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:18,590 Movie cameras, they're not doing what our cameras would do. 142 00:04:18,925 --> 00:04:20,259 BETTY: When the Challenger exploded... 143 00:04:20,461 --> 00:04:21,860 MIKE: Yeah? 144 00:04:22,062 --> 00:04:23,662 BETTY: They found out what happened by film 145 00:04:23,731 --> 00:04:25,397 that was made with our cameras. 146 00:04:25,465 --> 00:04:26,265 MIKE: Yeah... 147 00:04:26,467 --> 00:04:27,332 GARY: Yeah. 148 00:04:27,401 --> 00:04:28,600 Just so happened they had the cameras there 149 00:04:28,669 --> 00:04:30,135 that day when it blew up. 150 00:04:30,337 --> 00:04:31,670 They went back and looked at the pictures and they could see 151 00:04:31,739 --> 00:04:33,805 where the O-ring was separating, 152 00:04:33,874 --> 00:04:36,341 and it actually caught on fire, yeah. 153 00:04:36,409 --> 00:04:36,742 MIKE: Wow. 154 00:04:36,810 --> 00:04:37,943 GARY: Yeah. 155 00:04:38,011 --> 00:04:40,612 MIKE: So that, that your technology was able 156 00:04:40,681 --> 00:04:41,346 to advance their technology. 157 00:04:41,415 --> 00:04:42,347 GARY: Right. 158 00:04:42,416 --> 00:04:42,814 BETTY: Right. 159 00:04:42,883 --> 00:04:44,015 GARY: Exactly. 160 00:04:44,084 --> 00:04:44,883 MIKE: It is incredible to think about how one man's 161 00:04:44,952 --> 00:04:47,986 vision could revolutionize an industry. 162 00:05:03,303 --> 00:05:05,904 GARY: Back in the 1950s, I guess the news spread pretty fast. 163 00:05:06,106 --> 00:05:09,174 The media wanted one, the Air Force and Navy. 164 00:05:09,243 --> 00:05:11,776 There was such demand for the camera, he retired from NASA, 165 00:05:11,845 --> 00:05:14,045 started the Charles Hulcher Company, 166 00:05:14,114 --> 00:05:16,515 and started building the high-speed sequence cameras. 167 00:05:16,917 --> 00:05:18,583 GARY: Back in the '60s, normal price for 168 00:05:18,652 --> 00:05:20,251 one of them was $2,200. 169 00:05:20,321 --> 00:05:21,253 MIKE: Wow! 170 00:05:21,455 --> 00:05:22,120 GARY: And... 171 00:05:22,189 --> 00:05:23,321 BETTY: About the same as a car then. 172 00:05:23,390 --> 00:05:23,722 MIKE: Oh yeah. 173 00:05:23,791 --> 00:05:24,589 GARY: Yeah. 174 00:05:24,658 --> 00:05:25,590 MIKE: Yeah, absolutely. 175 00:05:25,659 --> 00:05:26,925 You were dealing with very professional people. 176 00:05:26,993 --> 00:05:29,861 GARY: Life Magazine, Sports Illustrated... 177 00:05:29,929 --> 00:05:30,929 MIKE: Ah I didn't even think about that. 178 00:05:30,998 --> 00:05:34,066 GARY: Up to this time, if you're trying to shoot 179 00:05:34,268 --> 00:05:37,202 stop-action of the guy catching a pass, swinging a bat, 180 00:05:37,270 --> 00:05:41,206 or a golf club, it was very little equipment to work with. 181 00:05:41,274 --> 00:05:44,142 Once the sports world found out the Hulcher would do that, 182 00:05:44,210 --> 00:05:47,545 oh my gosh, you know I mean, we started getting orders, 183 00:05:47,614 --> 00:05:48,480 you know, like crazy. 184 00:05:48,682 --> 00:05:50,082 We just couldn't keep up. 185 00:05:50,284 --> 00:05:52,150 MIKE: So all those images, all those memories, you know, 186 00:05:52,219 --> 00:05:55,420 that we all kind of look back through, and reminisce about. 187 00:05:55,622 --> 00:05:56,355 GARY: Yeah. Oh yeah. 188 00:05:56,557 --> 00:05:57,289 MIKE: You were the guy helping with that! 189 00:05:57,491 --> 00:05:58,824 [group laughing] 190 00:05:58,892 --> 00:05:59,958 GARY: Yeah, I was in on that, so yeah. 191 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,027 And we-we had a lot of fun building them, you know. 192 00:06:02,095 --> 00:06:04,829 At one time, there was 30 people here making parts. 193 00:06:04,898 --> 00:06:07,566 Todd's dad, Richard, he was shop foreman. 194 00:06:07,768 --> 00:06:08,700 BETTY: Yeah, he was here... 195 00:06:08,768 --> 00:06:09,634 MIKE: So you kind of grew up around this place. 196 00:06:09,703 --> 00:06:11,303 TODD: Yes, since I was that tall. 197 00:06:11,505 --> 00:06:13,037 [group laughing] 198 00:06:13,106 --> 00:06:14,105 MIKE: Well show me around a little bit, I'm excited. 199 00:06:14,174 --> 00:06:15,706 Let me see how you guys make one of these things. 200 00:06:15,776 --> 00:06:16,574 GARY: Sure I'll give you a... 201 00:06:16,643 --> 00:06:17,642 TODD: Guys, I got to go. 202 00:06:17,711 --> 00:06:18,243 Mike, it was good meeting you. 203 00:06:18,445 --> 00:06:19,110 MIKE: Hey. 204 00:06:19,179 --> 00:06:20,311 Good to meet you too, my friend. 205 00:06:20,381 --> 00:06:22,380 GARY: We would take the blank of aluminum, like sheet metal. 206 00:06:22,449 --> 00:06:23,849 MIKE: Uh-huh. 207 00:06:24,051 --> 00:06:25,650 GARY: Somebody would be making the bottoms, 208 00:06:25,719 --> 00:06:26,918 somebody would be making the tops, 209 00:06:26,987 --> 00:06:28,253 somebody would be working on the set of gears. 210 00:06:28,455 --> 00:06:29,987 MIKE: Okay. 211 00:06:30,056 --> 00:06:31,256 GARY: Eventually, it'll all be welded together. 212 00:06:31,324 --> 00:06:35,927 BETTY: First of all, we made the 70mm which was a wide film. 213 00:06:35,996 --> 00:06:37,796 GARY: Actually had a guy that was a NASA engineer, 214 00:06:37,864 --> 00:06:38,997 that did all of our wiring for us. 215 00:06:39,065 --> 00:06:42,533 BETTY: Then we started making the 35mm because 216 00:06:42,602 --> 00:06:44,803 the 70s were so heavy, 217 00:06:45,072 --> 00:06:48,140 they just couldn't be carried around very easily. 218 00:06:48,342 --> 00:06:51,876 And that's when these sports people got so interested in it. 219 00:06:51,945 --> 00:06:53,478 BETTY: Who was the guy that... that hit- 220 00:06:53,547 --> 00:06:54,279 GARY: Mark McGwire. 221 00:06:54,481 --> 00:06:55,880 BETTY: Yeah. 222 00:06:55,949 --> 00:06:57,348 When he was going to go for the record... 223 00:06:57,417 --> 00:06:58,549 MIKE: Yeah. 224 00:06:58,618 --> 00:07:01,953 BETTY: They would send their cameras to us, to load them, 225 00:07:02,022 --> 00:07:05,824 and set everything, so all they'd have to do was 226 00:07:05,893 --> 00:07:07,358 pull the trigger and take the picture... 227 00:07:07,427 --> 00:07:08,693 MIKE: Really. 228 00:07:08,762 --> 00:07:09,628 BETTY: when they got there. 229 00:07:09,830 --> 00:07:10,429 MIKE: Wow, they relied on you guys that much. 230 00:07:10,631 --> 00:07:11,429 BETTY: Yes, they did. 231 00:07:11,498 --> 00:07:12,830 GARY: Sure, yeah. 232 00:07:12,899 --> 00:07:13,764 MIKE: To hear about this first -hand, 233 00:07:13,834 --> 00:07:14,699 from the people that were actually 234 00:07:14,902 --> 00:07:17,502 there in the place that it happened, 235 00:07:17,571 --> 00:07:18,770 is pretty damn epic. 236 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:19,971 MIKE: So what's going on with that? 237 00:07:20,039 --> 00:07:21,706 You guys still using this little cabinet here? 238 00:07:21,775 --> 00:07:22,574 GARY: This was our drill cabinet. 239 00:07:22,776 --> 00:07:24,509 MIKE: Yeah, it's really neat. 240 00:07:24,578 --> 00:07:25,510 GARY: Number drills... 241 00:07:25,579 --> 00:07:26,378 MIKE: So there's still drill bits in there. 242 00:07:26,446 --> 00:07:27,312 GARY: Yeah. 243 00:07:27,380 --> 00:07:28,246 MIKE: Are you guys still utilizing this? 244 00:07:28,314 --> 00:07:30,047 GARY: No, we don't use that one anymore. 245 00:07:30,116 --> 00:07:32,650 Most everybody has their own little drill stand now. 246 00:07:32,719 --> 00:07:33,718 MIKE: Did you make this here? 247 00:07:33,786 --> 00:07:34,653 GARY: That was made here, yes. 248 00:07:34,721 --> 00:07:36,588 BETTY: We made everything. 249 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:37,388 MIKE: No kidding. I see that. 250 00:07:37,457 --> 00:07:38,923 BETTY: [laughs] 251 00:07:38,992 --> 00:07:39,591 MIKE: Well I mean, was that-is that something 252 00:07:39,659 --> 00:07:41,326 you'd consider selling? 253 00:07:41,395 --> 00:07:42,193 GARY: Sure yeah. 254 00:07:42,262 --> 00:07:42,861 MIKE: I mean, that's something that 255 00:07:43,063 --> 00:07:43,662 somebody could still utilize. 256 00:07:43,864 --> 00:07:45,129 It's just got a great look to it. 257 00:07:45,198 --> 00:07:47,932 It's worn, the paint on the sides of it and everything. 258 00:07:48,001 --> 00:07:49,734 I mean, it's not big deal to make back then, 259 00:07:49,802 --> 00:07:52,136 but now it's just got so much age. 260 00:07:52,206 --> 00:07:54,339 Plus, to be honest with you, the story of where it came from. 261 00:07:54,541 --> 00:07:56,274 GARY: True, yeah. 262 00:07:56,342 --> 00:07:57,942 MIKE: If you'd consider selling it, so it's actually 2 pieces, 263 00:07:58,011 --> 00:08:01,880 one stacked on top of the other, I'd pay... 264 00:08:01,949 --> 00:08:05,283 like 250 bucks, for both cabinets, you know. 265 00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:06,985 Like 125 apiece. 266 00:08:08,154 --> 00:08:09,354 GARY: If you take the drill bits out, we can do that. 267 00:08:09,422 --> 00:08:11,423 MIKE: Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't need any of the drill bits. 268 00:08:11,625 --> 00:08:12,290 GARY: Yeah. Yeah. 269 00:08:12,358 --> 00:08:13,091 MIKE: But I would love to have it, 270 00:08:13,159 --> 00:08:14,826 just because it's always been here, 271 00:08:14,894 --> 00:08:16,561 and it's just got a great look to it. 272 00:08:16,629 --> 00:08:17,996 Thank you, my friend. 273 00:08:18,365 --> 00:08:26,037 ♪ ♪ ♪ 274 00:08:26,105 --> 00:08:27,772 DANIELLE: Oh I'm looking at it right now, so-yeah. 275 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,307 I'll get it sent out, alright, bye. 276 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:30,775 DANIELLE: Hello. 277 00:08:30,978 --> 00:08:31,576 ROB: Hey, I'm Rob from the Great Escape. 278 00:08:31,778 --> 00:08:33,378 DANIELLE: The music guru! 279 00:08:33,447 --> 00:08:35,046 ROB: That is I. 280 00:08:35,248 --> 00:08:36,314 DANIELLE: Yeah, I've been talking to you, that's great. 281 00:08:36,382 --> 00:08:37,248 ROB: Yes. 282 00:08:37,317 --> 00:08:38,382 DANIELLE: Okay, I have something to show ya. 283 00:08:38,451 --> 00:08:40,252 So this is one of our precious babies right here. 284 00:08:40,454 --> 00:08:41,185 ROB: Oh yes. 285 00:08:41,254 --> 00:08:42,653 DANIELLE: I'll grab the other pieces. 286 00:08:42,722 --> 00:08:46,724 So here's the full collection. 287 00:08:46,793 --> 00:08:48,793 We got this in Pennsylvania from a 288 00:08:48,996 --> 00:08:51,596 lady whose late husband was a radio DJ. 289 00:08:51,665 --> 00:08:52,797 DANIELLE: Check this out. 290 00:08:52,866 --> 00:08:54,132 DENISE: And here's the poster for it. 291 00:08:54,334 --> 00:08:56,133 DANIELLE: This cover didn't make it, because the label thought 292 00:08:56,202 --> 00:08:59,537 the subject matter was too delicate for American audiences. 293 00:08:59,606 --> 00:09:01,205 [gasp!] Clutches pearls. 294 00:09:01,274 --> 00:09:03,942 DANIELLE: If we take this and we find out that it's worth an 295 00:09:04,011 --> 00:09:06,677 exorbitant amount of money, I will contact you, 296 00:09:06,746 --> 00:09:07,679 and make sure to make that right. 297 00:09:07,748 --> 00:09:10,415 But I feel like 1,200 is fair. 298 00:09:10,617 --> 00:09:11,749 DENISE: I'll do it. 299 00:09:11,818 --> 00:09:12,683 DANIELLE: Yeah, oh I'm so excited. 300 00:09:12,752 --> 00:09:13,952 DENISE: Yeah, you got a deal. 301 00:09:14,020 --> 00:09:15,620 ROB: This is a, a whole package from what's 302 00:09:15,689 --> 00:09:16,955 known as the 'butcher cover'. 303 00:09:17,157 --> 00:09:19,557 Which was the Beatles - Yesterday and Today album, 304 00:09:19,626 --> 00:09:20,892 that came out in 1966. 305 00:09:20,961 --> 00:09:23,561 The butcher cover name comes from, obviously, 306 00:09:23,630 --> 00:09:25,430 the shocking picture... 307 00:09:25,499 --> 00:09:27,032 Danielle: [laughing] 308 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:28,165 ROB: that they decided to put on this release. 309 00:09:28,234 --> 00:09:30,969 When this got sent out to radio stations and reviewers, 310 00:09:31,171 --> 00:09:33,904 they quickly realized they had made a big mistake. 311 00:09:33,974 --> 00:09:35,573 Moms weren't going to want to see this on 312 00:09:35,642 --> 00:09:37,908 their kids record player. 313 00:09:37,978 --> 00:09:39,043 DANIELLE: Somebody messed up in marketing. 314 00:09:39,112 --> 00:09:41,646 ROB: Remember, this is the mid-'60s, and the Beatles. 315 00:09:41,715 --> 00:09:42,246 DANIELLE: It's pretty macabre. 316 00:09:42,316 --> 00:09:42,714 ROB: Yes. 317 00:09:42,916 --> 00:09:44,181 Danielle: [laughs] 318 00:09:44,250 --> 00:09:45,717 ROB: They recalled the record, covered up the butcher with 319 00:09:45,786 --> 00:09:47,986 what's known as the 'trunk cover', 320 00:09:48,055 --> 00:09:49,988 which shows the band and they're sitting on a trunk. 321 00:09:50,056 --> 00:09:51,790 DANIELLE: So they just slapped some glue on it 322 00:09:51,992 --> 00:09:52,390 and put a different picture on the top. 323 00:09:52,458 --> 00:09:53,658 ROB: Exactly. 324 00:09:53,860 --> 00:09:55,060 When it comes to the butcher cover, 325 00:09:55,128 --> 00:09:57,128 there's 3 different versions that we'd be looking at. 326 00:09:57,197 --> 00:09:59,931 What's known as a third state would be a record that had 327 00:10:00,133 --> 00:10:03,401 this covered up, and was peeled off, by a consumer. 328 00:10:03,470 --> 00:10:04,803 DANIELLE: Okay. 329 00:10:04,871 --> 00:10:06,605 ROB: People knew pretty quickly that 330 00:10:06,807 --> 00:10:08,073 this picture was under here. 331 00:10:08,275 --> 00:10:10,875 There was an industry even evolved loosely around peeling 332 00:10:11,078 --> 00:10:13,144 the cover off, you could hold it over your stove- 333 00:10:13,213 --> 00:10:14,946 DANIELLE: What do you mean, industry revolved around it- 334 00:10:15,015 --> 00:10:16,547 like people just trying to figure out different 335 00:10:16,617 --> 00:10:18,283 ways to peel the cover? 336 00:10:18,351 --> 00:10:19,350 ROB: Yes. 337 00:10:19,419 --> 00:10:22,086 Because especially at that time, the glue hadn't set, 338 00:10:22,155 --> 00:10:25,356 it was not terribly difficult to get them peeled off. 339 00:10:25,425 --> 00:10:26,290 DANIELLE: Gotcha. 340 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:27,759 ROB: The second state has what's known as a 341 00:10:27,827 --> 00:10:29,960 paste-over that was put over this. 342 00:10:30,030 --> 00:10:32,563 You'll see through the cover, you'll see the V 343 00:10:32,633 --> 00:10:33,965 of Ringo's sweater here. 344 00:10:34,167 --> 00:10:36,233 DANIELLE: 'Cause there's so much white on the cover. 345 00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:37,034 Okay. 346 00:10:37,103 --> 00:10:37,769 ROB: Yeah, it's a white background, 347 00:10:37,838 --> 00:10:38,769 you can pretty clearly see it, 348 00:10:38,838 --> 00:10:40,905 especially at an angle or with light. 349 00:10:40,974 --> 00:10:43,574 A first state is what would come directly 350 00:10:43,643 --> 00:10:45,376 from the record label... 351 00:10:45,445 --> 00:10:46,444 DANIELLE: Yeah. 352 00:10:46,512 --> 00:10:47,846 ROB: to a reviewer or to a radio station. 353 00:10:48,048 --> 00:10:51,783 That was done prior to the release in 1966. 354 00:10:51,851 --> 00:10:53,518 Those are your most valuable copies. 355 00:10:53,586 --> 00:10:54,919 DANIELLE: So it was... 356 00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:55,386 ROB: Because they never had the paste-over. 357 00:10:55,455 --> 00:10:56,721 DANIELLE: Aha! 358 00:10:56,790 --> 00:10:58,589 That answers like, so many questions 359 00:10:58,659 --> 00:10:59,724 I've had about all of this. 360 00:10:59,926 --> 00:11:01,926 ROB: In perfect condition, you know, 361 00:11:01,994 --> 00:11:04,128 a first state and a nice original poster, 362 00:11:04,197 --> 00:11:08,332 you're probably looking at about a $20,000 value on this. 363 00:11:08,402 --> 00:11:09,534 DANIELLE: Ohh... 364 00:11:09,603 --> 00:11:11,002 ROB: Unfortunately, what you have here is a third state. 365 00:11:16,809 --> 00:11:18,143 DANIELLE: Are you sure? [laughs] 366 00:11:18,345 --> 00:11:20,078 ROB: Yeah, it's-you can tell, I hate to be the bearer of bad 367 00:11:20,146 --> 00:11:24,149 news, but when you see the residue here from glue, 368 00:11:24,351 --> 00:11:27,018 people would steam them over a kettle to loosen the glue and 369 00:11:27,087 --> 00:11:30,354 peel it off, but there's usually some telltale residue... 370 00:11:30,424 --> 00:11:31,022 DANIELLE: Okay. 371 00:11:31,090 --> 00:11:31,756 ROB: that you'll find. 372 00:11:31,958 --> 00:11:33,424 Also the issues around the edge... 373 00:11:33,493 --> 00:11:34,893 DANIELLE: Yeah. 374 00:11:34,961 --> 00:11:35,426 ROB: are indicative of somebody trying 375 00:11:35,495 --> 00:11:37,161 to make the peel. 376 00:11:37,230 --> 00:11:39,497 DANIELLE: Ohh, I never thought about that, that makes sense, 377 00:11:39,566 --> 00:11:40,365 this part right here. 378 00:11:40,433 --> 00:11:40,765 ROB: Um-hm. 379 00:11:40,834 --> 00:11:42,033 DANIELLE: Okay. 380 00:11:42,235 --> 00:11:43,301 ROB: You know, any record could have some damage on it, 381 00:11:43,370 --> 00:11:47,438 but it shows pretty clearly to me that it has been peeled. 382 00:11:47,507 --> 00:11:48,372 DANIELLE: Okay. 383 00:11:48,442 --> 00:11:51,576 So, this one definitely is a third state... 384 00:11:51,645 --> 00:11:52,376 ROB: In my opinion, yes. 385 00:11:52,446 --> 00:11:54,245 DANIELLE: Okay. 386 00:11:54,313 --> 00:11:56,914 We picked this one thinking it was a first state because the 387 00:11:56,983 --> 00:11:58,315 gentleman worked for a local radio station... 388 00:11:58,384 --> 00:12:00,184 ROB: Um-hm. 389 00:12:00,253 --> 00:12:01,653 DANIELLE: and he got a lot of those promotional items in 390 00:12:01,855 --> 00:12:03,788 and so we assumed that... this... 391 00:12:03,990 --> 00:12:05,656 hah, I'll take responsibility for this... 392 00:12:05,725 --> 00:12:06,857 ROB: That this was one of them. 393 00:12:06,926 --> 00:12:07,525 DANIELLE: I assumed that this would 394 00:12:07,594 --> 00:12:08,193 have been an original. 395 00:12:08,395 --> 00:12:09,727 ROB: Yes. 396 00:12:09,796 --> 00:12:10,728 But that's not the end of the world, 397 00:12:10,797 --> 00:12:11,662 it's still a very desirable record. 398 00:12:11,731 --> 00:12:12,931 DANIELLE: Uughh, okay. Alright. 399 00:12:12,999 --> 00:12:15,800 ROB: Now when you look at your poster here, unfortunately, 400 00:12:15,869 --> 00:12:18,937 you're missing the Capitol logo here, 401 00:12:19,005 --> 00:12:21,873 which is indicative of an original poster, 402 00:12:21,942 --> 00:12:23,741 that would have been from that time period. 403 00:12:23,810 --> 00:12:26,076 DANIELLE: Uuhhmm... my heart. Heh... 404 00:12:26,146 --> 00:12:29,948 ROB: This is likely something from the, from the '70s, 405 00:12:30,150 --> 00:12:32,350 that would have been sold in record stores, or... 406 00:12:32,552 --> 00:12:33,551 DANIELLE: Dang it. 407 00:12:33,620 --> 00:12:36,154 Okay, so you're telling me this is also not original. 408 00:12:36,222 --> 00:12:37,688 And-and I don't, the only reason that I question that is 409 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:39,891 'cause we have an original letter. 410 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,693 ROB: Okay, yeah let's talk about the letter. 411 00:12:42,763 --> 00:12:44,829 I haven't looked at it too closely. 412 00:12:44,898 --> 00:12:48,833 The letter itself was often photocopied, 413 00:12:48,902 --> 00:12:50,368 I mean, all you have to do is go to a... 414 00:12:50,570 --> 00:12:51,169 DANIELLE: Oh stop. 415 00:12:51,371 --> 00:12:52,369 ROB: Go, go to a photocopy machine. 416 00:12:52,438 --> 00:12:53,771 DANIELLE: How... 417 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:55,973 ROB: If you look here, the letterhead, 418 00:12:56,042 --> 00:12:59,176 see the 'Hollywood and Vine', the printing here, 419 00:12:59,245 --> 00:13:03,381 and that the 'Executive and General Office', how it's faded. 420 00:13:03,450 --> 00:13:05,049 DANIELLE: Yeah. 421 00:13:05,118 --> 00:13:05,716 ROB: Cut off, almost. An original letter is going to 422 00:13:05,785 --> 00:13:07,652 have a crisp letterhead. 423 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,987 DANIELLE: Ah... ROB: Um... 424 00:13:10,056 --> 00:13:11,455 DANIELLE: I thought for sure this would be legit. 425 00:13:11,524 --> 00:13:13,658 I paid 1,200 bucks. 426 00:13:13,727 --> 00:13:15,326 Will I at least see that back? 427 00:13:15,395 --> 00:13:16,528 ROB: Umm... 428 00:13:16,730 --> 00:13:17,862 I'm afraid on this deal, 429 00:13:17,931 --> 00:13:19,597 you're probably going to lose a little bit. 430 00:13:19,666 --> 00:13:20,999 DANIELLE: Alright, alright. 431 00:13:21,067 --> 00:13:22,734 ROB: As a collection, it's still a nice package 432 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:25,002 to have all 3 of these together. 433 00:13:25,071 --> 00:13:28,006 I think all together you'd be looking at about $700. 434 00:13:28,541 --> 00:13:29,807 DANIELLE: Hooh... 435 00:13:29,876 --> 00:13:31,409 that's better than nothing, I suppose. 436 00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:32,410 ROB: Absolutely. 437 00:13:32,612 --> 00:13:34,212 DANIELLE: This one felt like such a secure gamble, 438 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,082 I- and I-I wish I had this knowledge before I picked it. 439 00:13:38,151 --> 00:13:39,083 ROB: Well, you'll know the next time you're out there. 440 00:13:39,152 --> 00:13:40,351 DANIELLE: Right. We pay for our education. 441 00:13:40,419 --> 00:13:41,753 At least... 442 00:13:41,955 --> 00:13:43,888 look it's still history, it's the Beatles. 443 00:13:44,090 --> 00:13:46,558 It's a cool story, just even to be in the shop, 444 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:48,092 you know, to put it together. 445 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:48,893 ROB: Oh it'll be, it's great to have it in the shop. 446 00:13:48,961 --> 00:13:50,694 DANIELLE: Rob, thank you so much. 447 00:13:50,763 --> 00:13:51,896 It wasn't what I wanted to hear... 448 00:13:52,098 --> 00:13:53,698 DANIELLE: but I appreciate your knowledge. 449 00:13:53,766 --> 00:13:54,632 ROB: You bet. Happy to help. 450 00:13:54,701 --> 00:13:56,000 DANIELLE: I'll walk you out. 451 00:13:56,435 --> 00:14:00,037 ♪ ♪ ♪ 452 00:14:00,106 --> 00:14:01,439 MIKE: Do you have any of the cameras that I can see? 453 00:14:01,508 --> 00:14:02,774 GARY: Back this way. 454 00:14:02,842 --> 00:14:03,574 MIKE: So what was his background? 455 00:14:03,643 --> 00:14:04,308 Was he a photographer? 456 00:14:04,377 --> 00:14:05,843 BETTY: No. 457 00:14:05,912 --> 00:14:07,845 BETTY: He really wasn't a photographer. 458 00:14:07,914 --> 00:14:09,113 GARY: He was a tinkerer, an inventor. 459 00:14:09,182 --> 00:14:11,716 He had lots of little projects he was always working on. 460 00:14:11,784 --> 00:14:12,784 MIKE: Here's one of your bodies, 461 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:13,918 this is what you were talking about. 462 00:14:13,987 --> 00:14:15,386 GARY: That's one of the bodies right there. 463 00:14:15,588 --> 00:14:16,320 Not-not complete... 464 00:14:16,389 --> 00:14:17,588 MIKE: Yeah. 465 00:14:17,657 --> 00:14:18,590 GARY: missing a few things. 466 00:14:18,792 --> 00:14:20,592 MIKE: After hearing about the cameras for so long, 467 00:14:20,794 --> 00:14:22,192 I finally get one in my hands. 468 00:14:22,262 --> 00:14:24,862 You can really feel the weight and the engineering behind it. 469 00:14:24,931 --> 00:14:27,665 GARY: That's probably about 1958 or '59. 470 00:14:27,734 --> 00:14:28,332 MIKE: Oh, really it's that early. 471 00:14:28,401 --> 00:14:30,067 GARY: Yeah. 472 00:14:30,136 --> 00:14:32,336 Some of these cameras, we sold to the golf magazines. 473 00:14:32,405 --> 00:14:33,270 MIKE: Okay. 474 00:14:33,339 --> 00:14:34,339 So if I pull this button, it clicks once. 475 00:14:34,541 --> 00:14:36,607 GARY: If you hold the button, you're probably doing... 476 00:14:36,676 --> 00:14:38,409 50 shots in one second. 477 00:14:38,477 --> 00:14:39,677 MIKE: Really!? 478 00:14:39,746 --> 00:14:40,812 GARY: Yeah. That's on film. 479 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,614 MIKE: Okay. If somebody's swinging, 480 00:14:42,816 --> 00:14:45,683 they just... boom. That's... 481 00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:46,684 GARY: And then you're out of film. 482 00:14:46,752 --> 00:14:47,351 MIKE: I'm out of film right then? 483 00:14:47,420 --> 00:14:48,887 GARY: Right then. 484 00:14:49,089 --> 00:14:49,420 MIKE: And then I got to send this back to you. 485 00:14:49,489 --> 00:14:49,887 GARY: Yeah, yeah. 486 00:14:49,956 --> 00:14:50,754 Mike: [laughs] 487 00:14:50,823 --> 00:14:52,557 MIKE: Here's another handheld one. 488 00:14:52,625 --> 00:14:53,624 And what am I doing here? 489 00:14:53,693 --> 00:14:55,493 So this is a sight-finder here. 490 00:14:55,561 --> 00:14:56,227 GARY: Sight-finder. 491 00:14:56,429 --> 00:14:57,495 MIKE: Yep. 492 00:14:57,564 --> 00:14:59,364 GARY: You're, you're riding in a small airplane right now. 493 00:14:59,432 --> 00:15:00,230 MIKE: Okay. 494 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:02,366 GARY: About 4-500 feet off the ground. 495 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:03,368 MIKE: Alright. 496 00:15:03,436 --> 00:15:04,235 GARY: And you're picking out things to shoot. 497 00:15:04,437 --> 00:15:05,770 MIKE: Wow. 498 00:15:05,838 --> 00:15:06,638 MIKE: First I'm on a golf course. 499 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,307 Then I'm up in a small airplane. 500 00:15:09,509 --> 00:15:10,975 I love this guy. 501 00:15:11,043 --> 00:15:12,643 MIKE: So it's so cool, because you know I mean, 502 00:15:12,712 --> 00:15:13,844 over the years, obviously, 503 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:14,312 I've found old cameras before, you know. 504 00:15:14,381 --> 00:15:15,913 GARY: Yeah. 505 00:15:15,982 --> 00:15:16,981 MIKE: But I've never found one of these, 506 00:15:17,049 --> 00:15:17,915 I've never seen one of these, just because it 507 00:15:17,984 --> 00:15:19,316 was so expensive and it was commercial use. 508 00:15:19,385 --> 00:15:20,718 GARY: Yeah. 509 00:15:20,787 --> 00:15:22,053 MIKE: Did you guys design this grip? 510 00:15:22,121 --> 00:15:24,855 GARY: These are WW-2 aircraft machine gun handles. 511 00:15:24,925 --> 00:15:26,524 MIKE: So you guys were buying old surplus, 512 00:15:26,726 --> 00:15:27,591 these old machine gun...? 513 00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:28,792 GARY: Mr. Hulcher bought them from the Navy and 514 00:15:28,861 --> 00:15:30,395 the Air Force, but get them in boxes. 515 00:15:30,597 --> 00:15:31,862 Mike: [laughs] Yeah. 516 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:32,730 GARY: Although the boxes, they're packed- 517 00:15:32,798 --> 00:15:34,532 they're packed in 1943 newspapers. 518 00:15:34,734 --> 00:15:36,067 MIKE: Yeah. GARY: Yeah. 519 00:15:36,135 --> 00:15:38,002 MIKE: That's cool you were able to repurpose them. 520 00:15:38,071 --> 00:15:39,337 GARY: With the same trigger switch... why not... 521 00:15:39,539 --> 00:15:40,605 MIKE: Yeah, yeah. 522 00:15:40,673 --> 00:15:41,739 The same trigger switch. 523 00:15:41,808 --> 00:15:42,740 GARY: Same trigger switch. Yeah. 524 00:15:42,809 --> 00:15:43,874 [Mike makes machine gun noises} 525 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:45,543 MIKE: It's still shooting fast, but it's... 526 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:46,543 MIKE & GARY: [laughs] 527 00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:48,079 MIKE: it's shooting film! That's super cool. 528 00:15:48,147 --> 00:15:51,015 MIKE: I love the way Charles Hulcher's mind worked. 529 00:15:51,084 --> 00:15:52,816 If he didn't need to make it, and he could repurpose 530 00:15:52,885 --> 00:15:54,685 something, then that's what he would do. 531 00:15:55,021 --> 00:15:56,688 GARY: There was one other company that built 532 00:15:56,890 --> 00:15:59,023 a high-speed camera, but it was huge. 533 00:15:59,092 --> 00:16:01,759 Not something you could carry around to a sports site. 534 00:16:01,828 --> 00:16:04,561 Mostly for scientific use in labs. 535 00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:05,563 BETTY: Very expensive. 536 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:06,563 GARY: Very expensive. 537 00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:07,765 You're talking 10 times what ours cost, yeah. 538 00:16:07,967 --> 00:16:10,701 Mr. Hulcher, he could see how to move 539 00:16:10,770 --> 00:16:12,003 the film faster than anybody. 540 00:16:25,118 --> 00:16:26,851 MIKE: Sure there were other high-speed cameras around 541 00:16:27,053 --> 00:16:29,119 before Hulcher, but they were either too massive, 542 00:16:29,188 --> 00:16:32,923 or they burned through way too much film. His genius was 543 00:16:32,993 --> 00:16:34,992 making one that was both portable and practical. 544 00:16:35,061 --> 00:16:38,662 And because of that, it became the gold standard. 545 00:16:38,999 --> 00:16:40,798 MIKE: This is kind of the bone yard right here, 546 00:16:40,866 --> 00:16:41,532 but do you have any cameras that are 547 00:16:41,734 --> 00:16:42,734 more complete than this? 548 00:16:42,936 --> 00:16:43,267 GARY: Sure, let's go up to the attic. 549 00:16:43,470 --> 00:16:45,003 MIKE: Okay. 550 00:16:46,072 --> 00:16:46,738 BETTY: Tell you what, you all go up in the attic, 551 00:16:46,940 --> 00:16:48,673 it's too hot up there for me. 552 00:16:48,741 --> 00:16:49,406 MIKE: Okay. [laughs] Okay. 553 00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:52,810 [phone ringing] 554 00:16:52,878 --> 00:16:53,678 DANIELLE: Hey, what's up, brother? 555 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:54,545 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): What's going on? 556 00:16:54,613 --> 00:16:55,412 Are you in the shop? 557 00:16:55,481 --> 00:16:56,948 DANIELLE: Yeah. 558 00:16:57,016 --> 00:16:57,615 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): Okay. This Tom Noonan guy 559 00:16:57,684 --> 00:16:59,683 has been blowing my phone up 560 00:16:59,752 --> 00:17:02,153 about that Paul Stanley stuff. 561 00:17:02,221 --> 00:17:03,888 MIKE: So this is the original piece of artwork that they 562 00:17:03,956 --> 00:17:06,356 drew before they actually made the piece. 563 00:17:06,426 --> 00:17:07,358 WAYNE: Right. 564 00:17:07,427 --> 00:17:08,358 MIKE: Alright, so there's 2 of them, and then... 565 00:17:08,428 --> 00:17:08,893 WAYNE: I have- 566 00:17:09,095 --> 00:17:09,961 MIKE: the other one. 567 00:17:10,163 --> 00:17:10,894 ROBBIE: We'll have to climb up there and get it. 568 00:17:10,963 --> 00:17:11,695 MIKE: We'll have to climb up and get. 569 00:17:11,764 --> 00:17:12,630 DANIELLE: Like what do you mean, 570 00:17:12,832 --> 00:17:14,165 blowing your phone up about it? 571 00:17:14,233 --> 00:17:15,366 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): I don't know if that's good news or if 572 00:17:15,434 --> 00:17:17,568 that's bad news, but he said he's an hour away from you. 573 00:17:17,637 --> 00:17:18,836 He just sent me a text, 574 00:17:18,905 --> 00:17:20,638 he's wanting to make sure you were there. 575 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,173 DANIELLE: Nice. Okay perfect. 576 00:17:22,242 --> 00:17:24,709 So he'll be here in about an hour, I'm here right now, yeah. 577 00:17:24,777 --> 00:17:26,043 I'll be here all day. I just... 578 00:17:26,112 --> 00:17:29,713 I just finished up this appraisal for the Beatles - 579 00:17:29,782 --> 00:17:31,315 Yesterday and Today collection. 580 00:17:31,518 --> 00:17:32,983 ROBBIE: Yeah? 581 00:17:33,053 --> 00:17:34,652 DANIELLE: Yeah. You want to hear some news on it? 582 00:17:34,854 --> 00:17:36,053 ROBBIE: Let's hear the good news. 583 00:17:36,122 --> 00:17:37,454 DANIELLE: No, it's really not good at all, actually. 584 00:17:37,523 --> 00:17:40,658 We took a hit, man. 585 00:17:40,860 --> 00:17:43,127 ROBBIE: What do you mean by 'we'? 586 00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:44,529 ROBBIE: If I was a Beatles guy, I'd have to have this. 587 00:17:44,731 --> 00:17:45,863 DANIELLE: Absolutely. Same. 588 00:17:46,065 --> 00:17:46,864 ROBBIE: I'd just have to have it, you know. 589 00:17:46,933 --> 00:17:48,332 DANIELLE: I really think we could get 2,000. 590 00:17:48,401 --> 00:17:50,201 ROBBIE: Yeah. 591 00:17:50,269 --> 00:17:53,337 ROB: I think all together, you'd be looking at about $700. 592 00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:54,872 DANIELLE: Hooh... 593 00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:56,741 DANIELLE: Yeah, I took a dive. It sucks. 594 00:17:56,809 --> 00:17:58,543 It's not good. I'm about to cry. 595 00:17:58,745 --> 00:17:59,743 I feel bad about myself. 596 00:17:59,812 --> 00:18:00,744 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): Well, don't cry. 597 00:18:00,814 --> 00:18:02,012 Mistakes are made every day, I mean, 598 00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:04,548 hey that's part of picking, that's Picking 101, 599 00:18:04,617 --> 00:18:05,549 that's how you learn. 600 00:18:05,618 --> 00:18:07,685 DANIELLE: It hurts! It hurts! I don't like it! 601 00:18:07,754 --> 00:18:08,753 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): I know it hurts. 602 00:18:08,821 --> 00:18:10,621 Hopefully Tom Noonan can lighten 603 00:18:10,689 --> 00:18:12,089 your day a little bit more. 604 00:18:12,158 --> 00:18:13,157 DANIELLE: Nah, you know what, you're absolutely right. 605 00:18:13,225 --> 00:18:15,025 We'll talk to him about the Paul Stanley stuff. 606 00:18:15,095 --> 00:18:16,561 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): Let me know how things go with Tom. 607 00:18:16,763 --> 00:18:17,761 I got to get back to work. 608 00:18:17,830 --> 00:18:18,696 DANIELLE: Thanks for cheering me up. 609 00:18:18,898 --> 00:18:19,763 I love ya, I'll talk to you later. 610 00:18:19,832 --> 00:18:19,997 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): See ya, sister. 611 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:27,371 ♪ ♪ ♪ 612 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:28,705 DANIELLE: Tom? 613 00:18:28,774 --> 00:18:29,773 Oh... I'm so happy to see you. 614 00:18:29,842 --> 00:18:33,043 TOM: Dani, great to see you. You too. 615 00:18:33,113 --> 00:18:34,779 DANIELLE: Oh please tell me you got good news for me, 616 00:18:34,847 --> 00:18:36,314 because we really took a hit and... 617 00:18:36,516 --> 00:18:38,115 I need a win. 618 00:18:38,184 --> 00:18:39,783 TOM: I've seen the pictures, I really love what I see. 619 00:18:39,852 --> 00:18:40,651 I can't wait to see them in person. 620 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,986 DANIELLE: Okay, let's go. Heh. 621 00:18:43,055 --> 00:18:44,788 DANIELLE: So how long have you been knowing Robbie? 622 00:18:44,858 --> 00:18:45,856 TOM: I've known him for quite a while. 623 00:18:45,925 --> 00:18:47,591 I bought a sign from him, a Griesedieck sign. 624 00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:49,193 And I put it in my brewery. 625 00:18:49,262 --> 00:18:51,395 It's actually a brewery-museum. I'm a collector of breweriana. 626 00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:52,396 DANIELLE: Yeah. 627 00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:53,864 TOM: Beer stuff. 628 00:18:53,933 --> 00:18:55,133 I've been doing it for about 50 years. 629 00:18:55,335 --> 00:18:56,801 DANIELLE: Oh. So you've been knowing him long enough for him 630 00:18:56,869 --> 00:18:58,736 to owe you some money then, right? 631 00:18:58,938 --> 00:18:59,470 TOM: Pretty much, yeah, yeah, yeah... 632 00:18:59,538 --> 00:19:00,538 DANIELLE: [laughs] 633 00:19:00,607 --> 00:19:01,872 TOM: Oh wow, look at this. 634 00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:02,339 DANIELLE: Well, you'll love this one. 635 00:19:02,408 --> 00:19:03,207 TOM: Oh yes. 636 00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:04,008 DANIELLE: This is the Lone Star one. 637 00:19:04,077 --> 00:19:05,542 TOM: This is great. It's concept art. 638 00:19:05,611 --> 00:19:06,544 MIKE: What are these? 639 00:19:06,612 --> 00:19:08,879 WAYNE: Paul Stanley, hand-painted drawings. 640 00:19:08,948 --> 00:19:10,681 MIKE: If you're an advertising collector, 641 00:19:10,749 --> 00:19:12,749 you know who Paul Stanley is. 642 00:19:12,818 --> 00:19:14,818 WAYNE: He made advertisements that 643 00:19:14,888 --> 00:19:16,887 were all mechanical, some 6, 7 feet tall. 644 00:19:16,956 --> 00:19:18,689 MIKE: So how large was this original piece? 645 00:19:18,757 --> 00:19:20,624 WAYNE: Uh, stand about that high. 646 00:19:20,693 --> 00:19:22,359 What do you offer for the 3? 647 00:19:22,428 --> 00:19:23,427 MIKE: 900 bucks. 648 00:19:23,630 --> 00:19:24,562 WAYNE: That's fine. 649 00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:25,163 ROBBIE: That'd work? 650 00:19:25,365 --> 00:19:25,563 MIKE: You want to do that? 651 00:19:25,765 --> 00:19:26,297 300 apiece? 652 00:19:26,366 --> 00:19:27,097 WAYNE: Yeah. ROBBIE: Alright. 653 00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:27,564 MIKE: Okay, brother, thank you. 654 00:19:27,633 --> 00:19:28,832 ROBBIE: Awesome. 655 00:19:28,902 --> 00:19:29,567 TOM: The Paul Stanley Company, you know, 656 00:19:29,769 --> 00:19:30,635 was a motion display company. 657 00:19:30,837 --> 00:19:32,903 Out of San Francisco, founded in like the 1940s. 658 00:19:32,972 --> 00:19:35,973 They operated until about the late 1960s, 659 00:19:36,042 --> 00:19:37,441 and they made these big motion display pieces, 660 00:19:37,644 --> 00:19:38,375 point-of-sale pieces. 661 00:19:38,444 --> 00:19:39,977 DANIELLE: Right. 662 00:19:40,046 --> 00:19:40,578 TOM: They made them for Lone Star, and Hamms, 663 00:19:40,646 --> 00:19:41,979 and even Burgie Beer. 664 00:19:42,048 --> 00:19:44,048 They're very large, kind of hard to move around. 665 00:19:44,116 --> 00:19:44,982 DANIELLE: How large? Like how big are we talking? 666 00:19:45,050 --> 00:19:46,383 TOM: Well some of them were 10 feet tall. 667 00:19:46,452 --> 00:19:46,984 DANIELLE: Whoa! 668 00:19:47,052 --> 00:19:48,185 TOM: Right. I think- 669 00:19:48,254 --> 00:19:49,720 DANIELLE: So basically you'd walk into the grocery store, 670 00:19:49,789 --> 00:19:51,656 and you'd see this monkey on top 671 00:19:51,724 --> 00:19:52,923 of this Lone Star beer can... 672 00:19:52,992 --> 00:19:55,326 TOM: Right. Now this sat on a mass beer stack. 673 00:19:55,528 --> 00:19:56,794 DANIELLE: Yeah. 674 00:19:56,996 --> 00:19:57,528 TOM: So this sat on top of probably all 675 00:19:57,596 --> 00:19:58,529 these cases of beer. 676 00:19:58,731 --> 00:19:59,263 DANIELLE: And it would be, it would be going around. 677 00:19:59,332 --> 00:19:59,797 TOM: It'd be going around. 678 00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:01,198 DANIELLE: Yeah. 679 00:20:01,267 --> 00:20:02,132 TOM: And they would move it around to different stores too. 680 00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,667 DANIELLE: Would they have made one of the 681 00:20:03,736 --> 00:20:06,737 monkey and the... on the beer can? 682 00:20:06,806 --> 00:20:07,604 Or would they have made multiples? 683 00:20:07,673 --> 00:20:08,606 TOM: They made multiples. 684 00:20:08,674 --> 00:20:09,673 DANIELLE: Okay, gotcha. 685 00:20:09,742 --> 00:20:11,008 TOM: I believe maybe 10 to 30. 686 00:20:11,076 --> 00:20:12,743 I've seen the Hamms, but I've not seen this one. 687 00:20:12,811 --> 00:20:13,610 A lot of them didn't survive. 688 00:20:13,679 --> 00:20:14,811 That's why I love these. 689 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:15,680 DANIELLE: It's great that you can have 690 00:20:15,748 --> 00:20:18,349 3 completely separate brands. 691 00:20:18,417 --> 00:20:19,217 TOM: Right. 692 00:20:19,419 --> 00:20:20,417 DANIELLE: Yet they all look like a family. 693 00:20:20,486 --> 00:20:21,285 They feel like a family, you know what I mean, like... 694 00:20:21,354 --> 00:20:22,687 TOM: Right. 695 00:20:22,889 --> 00:20:23,621 DANIELLE: You can tell that the same 696 00:20:23,823 --> 00:20:25,355 Paul Stanley Company did all 3. 697 00:20:25,424 --> 00:20:26,824 TOM: You can. 698 00:20:27,026 --> 00:20:27,958 When I first saw them, I thought they were 699 00:20:28,027 --> 00:20:30,761 watercolor, but they look like color pencil. 700 00:20:30,829 --> 00:20:32,563 They actually have the whirl marks, 701 00:20:32,765 --> 00:20:34,031 and actually how they move. 702 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:36,100 This is the artist conception of this idea, right? 703 00:20:36,168 --> 00:20:38,836 The brain-child for them to come up with this display 704 00:20:39,038 --> 00:20:40,971 piece that they built and put in a store. 705 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,707 This is a concept piece that they drew for the 706 00:20:42,909 --> 00:20:44,642 Paul Stanley Company and to pitch it. 707 00:20:44,711 --> 00:20:45,976 DANIELLE: That's incredible, man. 708 00:20:46,045 --> 00:20:48,979 It's... this is really just the first step, 709 00:20:49,048 --> 00:20:52,917 just one little piece to this huge long process, 710 00:20:52,985 --> 00:20:56,120 of this actually being made into a statue. 711 00:20:56,189 --> 00:20:58,055 TOM: Correct. This goes into another category for collectors, 712 00:20:58,124 --> 00:21:00,324 that it's artwork, and not just an advertising piece. 713 00:21:00,526 --> 00:21:01,992 'Cause it's both. 714 00:21:02,061 --> 00:21:02,660 You know, it's artwork for an advertising piece, 715 00:21:02,729 --> 00:21:04,462 which makes them so unique. 716 00:21:04,664 --> 00:21:05,395 Like this piece here. 717 00:21:05,464 --> 00:21:06,530 DANIELLE: Yeah. 718 00:21:06,598 --> 00:21:08,865 TOM: Right? Now, I've seen this display, in shows. 719 00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:12,069 I've seen this large bear with the Hamms. 720 00:21:12,138 --> 00:21:14,672 The one I've seen though, actually, these are all red, 721 00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:16,741 the bear's got a red scarf, 722 00:21:16,943 --> 00:21:18,342 and these are all different creatures. 723 00:21:18,544 --> 00:21:19,810 DANIELLE: Yeah. 724 00:21:19,879 --> 00:21:20,678 TOM: This drawing might not have been 725 00:21:20,746 --> 00:21:22,213 made exactly the way it is. 726 00:21:22,415 --> 00:21:24,949 And this display piece, there's probably 10 of those out there. 727 00:21:25,017 --> 00:21:25,749 DANIELLE: Oh, the actual large display piece. 728 00:21:25,818 --> 00:21:26,417 TOM: The actual large display piece. 729 00:21:26,485 --> 00:21:27,684 DANIELLE: Okay. 730 00:21:27,753 --> 00:21:28,819 TOM: With the guy spinning around. 731 00:21:28,888 --> 00:21:30,954 This artwork, there's only one of these. 732 00:21:31,024 --> 00:21:33,290 DANIELLE: [gasp] That hits home. That hits home. 733 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:34,625 TOM: Yeah. 734 00:21:34,827 --> 00:21:35,893 DANIELLE: I want a number on it. 735 00:21:35,962 --> 00:21:37,895 TOM: Now this one is probably the most valuable of the 3, 736 00:21:37,964 --> 00:21:40,164 because of the loyalty of the Hamms collectors. 737 00:21:40,232 --> 00:21:42,433 It's a little rough, but it's amazing that it's still... 738 00:21:42,501 --> 00:21:43,167 DANIELLE: Yeah. 739 00:21:43,369 --> 00:21:44,368 TOM: that it's still even around. 740 00:21:44,437 --> 00:21:48,038 I would say anywhere from the low value of around 700, 741 00:21:48,107 --> 00:21:50,774 and it could go as much as 1,000 in a-in an auction, 742 00:21:50,843 --> 00:21:52,443 because of all the Hamms collectors. 743 00:21:52,511 --> 00:21:53,577 DANIELLE: Okay. 744 00:21:53,646 --> 00:21:55,112 TOM: If you find the guy that owns this actual display, 745 00:21:55,181 --> 00:21:57,048 he has it somewhere in his house and he wants the actual 746 00:21:57,250 --> 00:22:01,385 design of that piece, this guy's living it on this one. 747 00:22:01,454 --> 00:22:02,186 DANIELLE: Awesome. 748 00:22:02,255 --> 00:22:04,388 TOM: Now this one, the Lone Star. 749 00:22:04,457 --> 00:22:05,389 DANIELLE: Yeah. 750 00:22:05,458 --> 00:22:08,058 TOM: Who doesn't like a chimpanzee in a tutu, 751 00:22:08,127 --> 00:22:10,528 on roller-skates, circling around a beer can, right? 752 00:22:10,730 --> 00:22:11,862 DANIELLE: I know, right? 753 00:22:12,064 --> 00:22:14,931 TOM: So in my opinion, this would be 5, $600. 754 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,400 DANIELLE: So a lot of this breweriana stuff 755 00:22:16,602 --> 00:22:17,334 is regional, right? 756 00:22:17,403 --> 00:22:18,402 TOM: Right. 757 00:22:18,471 --> 00:22:19,736 DANIELLE: So I can just imagine what this would 758 00:22:19,805 --> 00:22:22,406 go for in Texas as opposed to Iowa. 759 00:22:22,608 --> 00:22:23,808 TOM: Correct. Right. 760 00:22:23,876 --> 00:22:25,743 If this was in a Texas auction, it would be considerably more. 761 00:22:25,945 --> 00:22:27,678 DANIELLE: Good to know, good to know. 762 00:22:27,747 --> 00:22:29,347 TOM: Now the last one over here... 763 00:22:29,549 --> 00:22:30,080 DANIELLE: Yeah. 764 00:22:30,149 --> 00:22:30,748 TOM: The Hills Brothers. 765 00:22:30,816 --> 00:22:31,482 DANIELLE: Hills Brothers. 766 00:22:31,684 --> 00:22:32,015 TOM: The little bandit. 767 00:22:32,084 --> 00:22:32,750 DANIELLE: Yeah. 768 00:22:32,819 --> 00:22:33,951 TOM: Yeah, I'm not a coffee guy, 769 00:22:34,020 --> 00:22:35,419 but I know some coffee people, so I love this piec. 770 00:22:35,487 --> 00:22:36,353 DANIELLE: Yeah. 771 00:22:36,422 --> 00:22:37,088 TOM: I love it, I mean, it's in great shape. 772 00:22:37,290 --> 00:22:37,821 DANIELLE: The colors. [whistles] 773 00:22:37,890 --> 00:22:38,622 TOM: Look at this little guy. 774 00:22:38,691 --> 00:22:40,357 Now, I saw these little arrows... 775 00:22:40,426 --> 00:22:41,758 DANIELLE: Yeah. 776 00:22:41,827 --> 00:22:42,893 TOM: And I thought, what's he do? 777 00:22:42,961 --> 00:22:45,095 Well down here, the best part, it says, 778 00:22:45,164 --> 00:22:50,034 'figure rotates 360 at 6 RPM.' So basically, he rotates, 779 00:22:50,236 --> 00:22:52,436 and he goes down in the can, so all you see is his hat. 780 00:22:52,505 --> 00:22:53,570 DANIELLE: Yes! Ah! 781 00:22:53,639 --> 00:22:54,905 TOM: I love this piece. 782 00:22:54,974 --> 00:22:56,707 And I have not been able to find this piece 783 00:22:56,909 --> 00:22:58,642 anywhere in terms of being out there. 784 00:22:58,710 --> 00:22:59,577 DANIELLE: The act-yeah. 785 00:22:59,645 --> 00:23:00,778 TOM: The actual piece. 786 00:23:00,847 --> 00:23:01,979 So I do not know if it exists or not. 787 00:23:02,048 --> 00:23:04,315 So this could be rarest of the bunch because... 788 00:23:04,517 --> 00:23:05,315 DANIELLE: Wow. 789 00:23:05,385 --> 00:23:06,450 TOM: it might not even have been produced. 790 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:08,919 But there's not a lot of coffee collectors out there. 791 00:23:08,987 --> 00:23:10,521 They're not as crazy as us breweriana guys, 792 00:23:10,590 --> 00:23:12,122 but I love this piece. 793 00:23:12,191 --> 00:23:13,924 TOM: Now, this one, I don't believe this display was ever 794 00:23:13,993 --> 00:23:15,792 built. So it's really hard to give a value. 795 00:23:15,861 --> 00:23:19,463 But I think conservatively 4 to $500. 796 00:23:19,531 --> 00:23:20,330 DANIELLE: Alright. 797 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:21,465 I mean, shoot, we're doing better today 798 00:23:21,534 --> 00:23:23,133 than we did earlier. 799 00:23:23,202 --> 00:23:26,537 So like, conservatively, 1,600 for all of it then, right? 800 00:23:26,605 --> 00:23:28,138 TOM: Yes. I think so. 801 00:23:28,207 --> 00:23:29,473 DANIELLE: I got to tell you like, 1,600 for all of it, 802 00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:30,207 we paid 900 bucks. 803 00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:30,941 TOM: Yes. 804 00:23:31,010 --> 00:23:31,808 DANIELLE: We come out on top. 805 00:23:31,877 --> 00:23:33,744 That's a win and I'm happy with that. 806 00:23:33,813 --> 00:23:35,079 And I'm super stoked you came out. 807 00:23:35,147 --> 00:23:36,947 TOM: Well great, it's great being here and I love 808 00:23:37,016 --> 00:23:38,549 seeing these, and they're even better in person. 809 00:23:38,618 --> 00:23:40,985 DANIELLE: Yeah! Awesome. 810 00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:46,624 ♪ ♪ ♪ 811 00:23:46,826 --> 00:23:47,625 GARY: It's kind of cluttered. 812 00:23:47,693 --> 00:23:48,559 MIKE: Yeah, I like that. 813 00:23:48,628 --> 00:23:49,960 MIKE: The Hulcher camera started a renaissance in 814 00:23:50,029 --> 00:23:53,764 photography. It evolved from forensics to art. 815 00:23:53,832 --> 00:23:55,032 GARY: This is the camera graveyard. 816 00:23:55,234 --> 00:23:57,768 MIKE: Oh here's the bodies for them. Look at all these. 817 00:23:57,837 --> 00:23:58,569 MIKE: And then had ripple effects in 818 00:23:58,637 --> 00:24:00,304 almost every industry. 819 00:24:00,373 --> 00:24:01,839 MIKE: Whoa! 820 00:24:02,041 --> 00:24:03,507 GARY: You could probably take 2 or 3 of these 821 00:24:03,576 --> 00:24:04,842 and make one good one. 822 00:24:04,910 --> 00:24:07,511 MIKE: This whole process was in-house. 823 00:24:07,580 --> 00:24:09,112 MIKE: Exposure chart. 824 00:24:09,182 --> 00:24:11,715 MIKE: Making every gear and every part of the camera... 825 00:24:11,918 --> 00:24:13,784 MIKE: View finder parts, here we go. 826 00:24:13,853 --> 00:24:15,719 MIKE: And they're the ones who designed 827 00:24:15,922 --> 00:24:18,455 it and built it, all under one roof. 828 00:24:18,657 --> 00:24:19,390 MIKE: Okay, well here. 829 00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:20,257 GARY: Alright. 830 00:24:20,326 --> 00:24:20,657 MIKE: What can you tell me about that? 831 00:24:20,726 --> 00:24:21,992 That's cool. 832 00:24:22,061 --> 00:24:23,394 GARY: It's a Hulcher 70. It was one of our first... 833 00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:23,927 MIKE: Whoa... 834 00:24:23,996 --> 00:24:24,795 GARY: 70mm cameras. 835 00:24:24,997 --> 00:24:26,864 This was probably owned by a newspaper. 836 00:24:26,933 --> 00:24:28,799 MIKE: Why would you end up with this back? 837 00:24:29,001 --> 00:24:30,200 GARY: This thing probably weighs 50 pounds. 838 00:24:30,269 --> 00:24:32,069 [laughs] 839 00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:32,870 MIKE: I know. That's why I got my leg up under it! 840 00:24:32,938 --> 00:24:33,737 GARY: We came out with a smaller, 841 00:24:33,806 --> 00:24:35,005 lighter version of the same camera. 842 00:24:35,074 --> 00:24:37,208 MIKE: So would you allow them to trade this in then? 843 00:24:37,410 --> 00:24:39,009 GARY: No. 844 00:24:39,078 --> 00:24:41,011 GARY: Of all the times when Sports Illustrated or 845 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:43,948 New York Times or anybody that has our cameras, 846 00:24:44,016 --> 00:24:45,683 after they had them awhile, we often come 847 00:24:45,751 --> 00:24:46,750 out with a new version of it. 848 00:24:46,819 --> 00:24:48,886 A wider version, easier to use version. 849 00:24:48,955 --> 00:24:51,021 GARY: They would actually buy the new camera, 850 00:24:51,089 --> 00:24:52,556 and then they'd eventually send us back and say, 851 00:24:52,758 --> 00:24:54,358 'would you store it for us.' 852 00:24:55,027 --> 00:24:56,360 MIKE: Ohh... okay. And that just went... yeah. 853 00:24:56,429 --> 00:24:57,761 GARY: But then... 854 00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:58,829 then they never asked for it back. 855 00:24:59,031 --> 00:25:01,699 GARY: Could you keep them, dispose of them, 856 00:25:01,767 --> 00:25:02,633 we don't want them anymore. 857 00:25:02,702 --> 00:25:03,834 MIKE: This one's not as heavy. 858 00:25:03,903 --> 00:25:06,036 GARY: Slightly newer version of this one. 859 00:25:06,105 --> 00:25:08,705 MIKE: Okay, so it is- you're right, it is lighter. 860 00:25:08,774 --> 00:25:10,240 GARY: Yeah, it's lighter. Uhh... 861 00:25:10,576 --> 00:25:11,842 MIKE: Love this case. 862 00:25:11,910 --> 00:25:16,046 Says goes to New York, Press, love the old shipping tags, man. 863 00:25:16,115 --> 00:25:19,316 GARY: Sports Illustrated and Life Magazine used them. 864 00:25:19,384 --> 00:25:20,450 MIKE: Wow. 865 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,720 MIKE: A lot of these cameras that shot really important 866 00:25:22,922 --> 00:25:25,523 moments, whether it was sports or news, 867 00:25:25,725 --> 00:25:26,790 are laying on the floor, 868 00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:28,659 in the original box, sitting there 869 00:25:28,728 --> 00:25:30,661 like mechanical time capsules. 870 00:25:30,730 --> 00:25:31,529 MIKE: This was state-of-the-art, 871 00:25:31,731 --> 00:25:32,596 and this was high-speed. 872 00:25:32,798 --> 00:25:34,864 GARY: This was high-speed, yes. 873 00:25:34,934 --> 00:25:35,866 MIKE: What's this gauge on this one here? 874 00:25:35,935 --> 00:25:37,667 Looks like a pressure gauge or something. 875 00:25:37,736 --> 00:25:38,669 GARY: Yeah, film floats around. 876 00:25:38,738 --> 00:25:40,737 If you shoot 75 frames a second, 877 00:25:40,806 --> 00:25:42,339 your film's going to want to float. 878 00:25:42,408 --> 00:25:43,274 MIKE: Ohh... 879 00:25:43,476 --> 00:25:45,408 GARY: So sometimes, they pressurize the box... 880 00:25:45,477 --> 00:25:46,677 MIKE: No kidding! 881 00:25:46,745 --> 00:25:48,812 GARY: To keep-to keep the film flat against the aperture. 882 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:49,947 MIKE: There's a lot going into this. 883 00:25:50,149 --> 00:25:51,815 MIKE: They weren't just mass -producing cameras. 884 00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:54,618 They were customizing them based on 885 00:25:54,687 --> 00:25:55,819 the client and their needs. 886 00:25:56,022 --> 00:25:57,488 MIKE: Look at the lens on that thing, man. 887 00:25:57,556 --> 00:25:58,622 So you're like this. 888 00:25:58,691 --> 00:25:59,957 GARY: Yeah, that about right. 889 00:26:00,159 --> 00:26:01,758 MIKE: Look at that, there's a chain drive in here. 890 00:26:01,827 --> 00:26:02,626 What about this thing, what's this? 891 00:26:02,828 --> 00:26:04,361 GARY: Probably an old prototype. 892 00:26:04,430 --> 00:26:04,761 MIKE: Really. 893 00:26:04,830 --> 00:26:05,962 GARY: Yeah. 894 00:26:06,031 --> 00:26:06,630 MIKE: Your hand goes into that with the leather. 895 00:26:06,832 --> 00:26:07,697 I love how primitive that is. 896 00:26:07,766 --> 00:26:09,366 So this would have been like... 897 00:26:09,434 --> 00:26:10,834 GARY: Yeah. 898 00:26:10,902 --> 00:26:11,702 It's important to keep both eyes open. 899 00:26:11,904 --> 00:26:12,636 MIKE: It's like getting a personal tour into 900 00:26:12,705 --> 00:26:15,705 the mind of Charles Hulcher. 901 00:26:15,774 --> 00:26:16,573 MIKE: It's like a bomber, man. 902 00:26:16,642 --> 00:26:17,575 GARY: Yeah. This was... 903 00:26:17,777 --> 00:26:18,509 MIKE: Look at this thing! 904 00:26:18,711 --> 00:26:19,376 Is it a bomber sight? 905 00:26:19,445 --> 00:26:20,244 [machine gun sfx] 906 00:26:20,446 --> 00:26:21,245 GARY: It might have came off a bomber. 907 00:26:21,313 --> 00:26:21,645 MIKE: That's what I'm saying, I mean... 908 00:26:21,713 --> 00:26:22,913 GARY: Yeah. 909 00:26:23,115 --> 00:26:23,914 MIKE: You were saying that he repurposed stuff. 910 00:26:23,983 --> 00:26:24,982 GARY: He repurposed a lot of stuff, yeah. 911 00:26:25,050 --> 00:26:27,384 Quite a few of them that we used in the Arctic, 912 00:26:27,453 --> 00:26:28,719 we put heaters in. 913 00:26:28,787 --> 00:26:29,853 MIKE: Put heaters in the camera? 914 00:26:29,922 --> 00:26:31,922 MIKE: Different sights, different setups, 915 00:26:31,990 --> 00:26:34,658 different features, different accessories. 916 00:26:34,727 --> 00:26:35,525 MIKE: Now this is manageable. 917 00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:36,527 GARY: Yeah, so this... 918 00:26:36,729 --> 00:26:37,727 MIKE: That's real light. 919 00:26:37,796 --> 00:26:38,862 I'm seeing the evolution as we walk across the attic. 920 00:26:38,931 --> 00:26:39,329 GARY: Every day we get a different request. 921 00:26:39,398 --> 00:26:40,798 MIKE: Yeah. 922 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:41,865 GARY: Can you build a camera to do this. 923 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:43,333 MIKE: Yeah. And that had to be challenging. 924 00:26:43,402 --> 00:26:44,735 GARY: Yeah. 925 00:26:44,804 --> 00:26:45,735 MIKE: Like I mean, it's just like, 926 00:26:45,804 --> 00:26:46,003 not the same thing all the time. 927 00:26:47,873 --> 00:26:48,805 GARY: No. The Highway Department, 928 00:26:48,874 --> 00:26:50,540 with their crash dummies, tested cars. 929 00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:51,942 MIKE: Oh yeah, yeah... 930 00:26:52,010 --> 00:26:53,076 GARY: Yeah, we sold them several cameras. 931 00:26:53,145 --> 00:26:54,144 MIKE: Oh when they would crash their car into the wall. 932 00:26:54,213 --> 00:26:56,680 GARY: Yeah if, if we could get like 100 pictures 933 00:26:56,749 --> 00:26:58,082 before it actually crashed... 934 00:26:58,150 --> 00:26:59,749 MIKE: Yes, they could design the car better that... 935 00:26:59,818 --> 00:27:00,684 GARY: And you could see the dummy 936 00:27:00,753 --> 00:27:02,286 doing all kinds of, you know. 937 00:27:02,488 --> 00:27:02,987 MIKE: Oh yeah. 938 00:27:16,168 --> 00:27:18,035 BETTY: What was the man that wanted the camera to set out 939 00:27:18,237 --> 00:27:21,905 in the woods and take pictures of Big Foot or something? 940 00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:22,973 GARY: Yeah, we-we had a request one time, 941 00:27:23,175 --> 00:27:26,310 the guy was trying to capture shots of Big Foot... 942 00:27:26,512 --> 00:27:27,244 in the woods. 943 00:27:27,446 --> 00:27:28,978 MIKE: Ugh! 944 00:27:29,048 --> 00:27:30,380 GARY: I don't know whether you've ever heard of 945 00:27:30,449 --> 00:27:31,247 Heinz Kluetmeier. 946 00:27:31,316 --> 00:27:32,516 He used to be the chief photographer 947 00:27:32,585 --> 00:27:33,717 for Sports Illustrated. 948 00:27:33,786 --> 00:27:35,853 And he used these cameras for years. 949 00:27:35,921 --> 00:27:37,921 MIKE: Photographers like Heinz Kluetmeier, 950 00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:40,924 this guy was shooting Muhammad Ali, A.J. Foyt. 951 00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:44,862 If you're a fan of his work, this is his camera. 952 00:27:45,064 --> 00:27:46,930 MIKE: So these cameras transcend just people 953 00:27:46,999 --> 00:27:50,667 collecting cameras, it starts getting into the 954 00:27:50,736 --> 00:27:52,202 imagery and the art of it. 955 00:27:52,404 --> 00:27:55,205 MIKE: I've got a guy that I can take pictures of this stuff and 956 00:27:55,273 --> 00:27:58,475 I could send that off to him. He's knowledgeable on price. 957 00:27:58,677 --> 00:27:59,809 GARY: That'd be great. 958 00:27:59,878 --> 00:28:03,012 MIKE: Collectors, enthusiasts, people that are passionate about 959 00:28:03,082 --> 00:28:05,683 photography are not going to have the opportunity 960 00:28:05,885 --> 00:28:06,817 to run into one of these cameras. 961 00:28:06,886 --> 00:28:08,418 You're not going to find something like 962 00:28:08,487 --> 00:28:10,954 this at a junk shop. 963 00:28:11,022 --> 00:28:11,622 MIKE: So you think this was one of the first 964 00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:13,356 ones you guys ever made. 965 00:28:13,426 --> 00:28:14,625 GARY: Probably. 966 00:28:14,827 --> 00:28:16,092 MIKE: Because a lot of the ones that were really significant and 967 00:28:16,161 --> 00:28:20,030 incomplete are sitting in the attic up here at Hulcher. 968 00:28:20,099 --> 00:28:21,999 MIKE: I'm going to send some of this stuff off to him. 969 00:28:27,372 --> 00:28:28,972 ♪ ♪ ♪ 970 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,441 BETTY: This used to be Mr. Hulcher's office. 971 00:28:31,510 --> 00:28:32,843 Now it's archives. 972 00:28:32,912 --> 00:28:35,045 MIKE: Sequence photography is common now. 973 00:28:35,247 --> 00:28:38,515 But back in the '50s, these images were revolutionary. 974 00:28:38,584 --> 00:28:40,250 MIKE: Oh look at that. 975 00:28:40,452 --> 00:28:41,251 BETTY: Yeah. 976 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:41,785 MIKE: So that's one of you guys' cameras... 977 00:28:41,853 --> 00:28:42,252 it was taken... 978 00:28:42,454 --> 00:28:43,787 BETTY: Yes. 979 00:28:43,855 --> 00:28:44,521 MIKE: used to, to take that shot. 980 00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:45,255 GARY: Right. BETTY: Yes. 981 00:28:45,324 --> 00:28:46,523 MIKE: Wow. 982 00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:47,657 GARY: It made the cover. 983 00:28:47,727 --> 00:28:49,059 MIKE: That's so beautiful. 1955. 984 00:28:49,261 --> 00:28:51,528 Man, don't you wish you just turn back the hands of time. 985 00:28:51,596 --> 00:28:53,263 BETTY: Long time ago. 986 00:28:53,331 --> 00:28:54,131 [laughs] 987 00:28:54,333 --> 00:28:54,865 MIKE: Turn them back. There's another one. 988 00:28:54,933 --> 00:28:55,466 Oh that's the same one. 989 00:28:55,668 --> 00:28:56,933 GARY: Same one. It-it... 990 00:28:57,002 --> 00:28:57,801 MIKE: Okay. Oh this is actually the magazine. 991 00:28:57,869 --> 00:28:59,403 GARY: Actually the magazine cover. 992 00:28:59,471 --> 00:29:00,070 BETTY: Right. 993 00:29:00,138 --> 00:29:00,470 MIKE: Oh the staff copy. 994 00:29:00,539 --> 00:29:01,538 BETTY: Yeah. 995 00:29:01,607 --> 00:29:03,941 MIKE: Physically seeing the images that these cameras 996 00:29:04,009 --> 00:29:07,944 made as magazine covers, newspaper headlines, 997 00:29:08,013 --> 00:29:10,747 and stop-motion photos of famous sports figures, 998 00:29:10,816 --> 00:29:13,150 really pulls it all together. 999 00:29:13,219 --> 00:29:15,952 BETTY: At this time, nobody could take a picture like this, 1000 00:29:16,021 --> 00:29:18,355 because there weren't any other cameras around... 1001 00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:19,757 MIKE: Yeah. 1002 00:29:19,959 --> 00:29:20,757 BETTY: to take a picture like that. 1003 00:29:20,826 --> 00:29:21,358 MIKE: So it just changes the landscape. 1004 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,559 BETTY: Yeah right. 1005 00:29:22,761 --> 00:29:23,960 MIKE: But see, look at the cameras those guys are using. 1006 00:29:24,029 --> 00:29:25,829 What would you consider that-what's that called? 1007 00:29:25,898 --> 00:29:26,897 GARY: Just a press camera, more of less. 1008 00:29:26,965 --> 00:29:28,632 BETTY: These cameras were speed graphics. 1009 00:29:28,701 --> 00:29:31,001 You take one picture a second. 1010 00:29:44,717 --> 00:29:45,782 MIKE: These are really neat. 1011 00:29:45,851 --> 00:29:46,917 Obviously these photos have been published before, 1012 00:29:46,986 --> 00:29:49,453 because you know, it's a professional photographer 1013 00:29:49,521 --> 00:29:50,320 covering the game. 1014 00:29:50,522 --> 00:29:51,855 MIKE: Baseball was the perfect vehicle for 1015 00:29:51,924 --> 00:29:55,192 this technology to be shown to the masses. 1016 00:29:55,261 --> 00:29:58,528 MIKE: 'Outfielder Dusty Rhodes crashes left field wall in vain 1017 00:29:58,597 --> 00:29:59,997 attempt to grab double.' 1018 00:30:00,065 --> 00:30:02,666 MIKE: A pitcher winding up to throw a strike, 1019 00:30:02,734 --> 00:30:03,867 someone sliding into home, 1020 00:30:03,935 --> 00:30:06,870 a batter in sequence hitting a homerun. 1021 00:30:06,939 --> 00:30:08,872 All of these moments were being captured, 1022 00:30:08,941 --> 00:30:11,675 giving the public a view of their heroes 1023 00:30:11,877 --> 00:30:13,676 like they had never seen before. 1024 00:30:13,745 --> 00:30:14,744 MIKE: What about stuff like this, 1025 00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:16,480 would you have any consideration of 1026 00:30:16,682 --> 00:30:17,281 selling any of these? 1027 00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:18,882 GARY: Sure. 1028 00:30:19,084 --> 00:30:19,549 MIKE: You've got 8 of them, and then you've 1029 00:30:19,618 --> 00:30:20,951 got this picture here. 1030 00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:23,887 I'd be interested in them for like 30 bucks a card, 1031 00:30:23,956 --> 00:30:24,888 and then I'd have to frame it, and you know, 1032 00:30:24,957 --> 00:30:27,157 presented that way, I think they might be, 1033 00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:30,760 after I frame it, like $75, to- to the right person, you know. 1034 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:33,230 So like for the pile here... um... 1035 00:30:33,299 --> 00:30:35,632 like 250. 1036 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:36,433 GARY: What do you think? 1037 00:30:36,501 --> 00:30:37,700 BETTY: I think that's fair, yeah. 1038 00:30:37,769 --> 00:30:38,835 GARY: I would rather see them go to somebody that could keep, 1039 00:30:38,904 --> 00:30:40,437 you know, keep them better than we are. 1040 00:30:40,506 --> 00:30:41,571 BETTY: Right, right. 1041 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,174 GARY: To see him get excited about it, excited me. 1042 00:30:44,242 --> 00:30:48,912 I'm thinking, finally somebody is recognizing our product 1043 00:30:48,981 --> 00:30:50,647 and what people can do with it, you know. 1044 00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:52,515 I just, it kind of got to me. 1045 00:30:52,584 --> 00:30:53,583 GARY: We would do that. 1046 00:30:53,652 --> 00:30:54,518 MIKE: Okay. BETTY: Yes. 1047 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:55,318 MIKE: Alright, thank you. 1048 00:30:55,387 --> 00:30:56,320 GARY: Deal. 1049 00:30:56,388 --> 00:30:56,787 MIKE: Well look at that, that's really cool. 1050 00:30:56,989 --> 00:30:59,656 Wow... who's that? 1051 00:30:59,724 --> 00:31:00,791 You guys know who that is? 1052 00:31:00,993 --> 00:31:02,259 Or was it just like a promotional photo? 1053 00:31:02,461 --> 00:31:03,260 GARY: Yeah. 1054 00:31:03,328 --> 00:31:04,995 BETTY: When we advertised our cameras, 1055 00:31:05,064 --> 00:31:09,066 we put things like this in magazines and newspapers. 1056 00:31:09,268 --> 00:31:10,333 MIKE: So you guys shot your own stuff though, I assume. 1057 00:31:10,402 --> 00:31:12,002 BETTY: Right. 1058 00:31:12,204 --> 00:31:13,336 MIKE: Since this came out of your archives and it's a 1059 00:31:13,405 --> 00:31:16,406 promotional piece, you know, this has, this has value to me. 1060 00:31:16,608 --> 00:31:17,407 I mean, I love this. 1061 00:31:17,475 --> 00:31:18,608 BETTY: Um-hm. 1062 00:31:18,677 --> 00:31:20,077 MIKE: I don't know what you guys are going to do with this, 1063 00:31:20,145 --> 00:31:23,013 but I-I'd be interested in buying that. 75 bucks? 1064 00:31:23,481 --> 00:31:24,748 BETTY: Sure. 1065 00:31:24,816 --> 00:31:25,949 GARY: We'll do that. 75, yeah. 1066 00:31:26,017 --> 00:31:27,084 MIKE: I love this. I absolutely love this. 1067 00:31:27,286 --> 00:31:29,286 GARY: Let me show you what we used in some of our ads too. 1068 00:31:29,355 --> 00:31:30,487 MIKE: Okay. 1069 00:31:30,556 --> 00:31:32,990 GARY: Yeah. This is just a couple of photos of our model. 1070 00:31:34,493 --> 00:31:36,092 MIKE: Oh yeah... 1071 00:31:36,161 --> 00:31:37,561 BETTY: Now that was, I didn't have a camera in that one, 1072 00:31:37,629 --> 00:31:38,361 Mr. Hulcher... [laughs] 1073 00:31:38,430 --> 00:31:39,429 MIKE: That's you? 1074 00:31:39,498 --> 00:31:39,963 BETTY: pictures. 1075 00:31:40,031 --> 00:31:40,363 MIKE: That's you? 1076 00:31:40,432 --> 00:31:41,498 BETTY: Yes it is. 1077 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:42,833 MIKE: Alright. So where- 1078 00:31:43,035 --> 00:31:45,636 BETTY: He used me to hold the cameras to put 1079 00:31:45,838 --> 00:31:48,705 on brochures and send to people. 1080 00:31:48,974 --> 00:31:51,842 BETTY: Somehow or other, Mr. Hulcher got in his 1081 00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,111 mind that I could be a model. [laughs] 1082 00:31:54,179 --> 00:31:56,513 GARY: This was, at one time, our most popular cameras. 1083 00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:58,315 MIKE: I can see why. 1084 00:31:58,517 --> 00:31:59,516 [group laughing] 1085 00:31:59,718 --> 00:32:01,117 MIKE: Betty, you were... 1086 00:32:01,186 --> 00:32:04,254 BETTY: He took lots of pictures with me and the camera. 1087 00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:06,923 [laughs] There must have been a million pictures with me over 1088 00:32:06,992 --> 00:32:09,993 here, I didn't realize there were so many. 1089 00:32:10,061 --> 00:32:11,328 MIKE: You had a lot of hats here at the company. 1090 00:32:11,397 --> 00:32:13,130 BETTY: I did. 1091 00:32:13,332 --> 00:32:14,331 MIKE: I noticed you got another baseball picture over here, 1092 00:32:14,533 --> 00:32:15,264 what is this one? 1093 00:32:15,334 --> 00:32:17,000 BETTY: This is the 1959 World Series. 1094 00:32:17,202 --> 00:32:19,469 COMMENTATOR: Charlie Neal hits one to left field 1095 00:32:19,538 --> 00:32:20,537 seats for a homerun. 1096 00:32:20,605 --> 00:32:22,072 But it's Al Smith that takes the shower. 1097 00:32:23,008 --> 00:32:25,943 BETTY: Al Smith was going up to catch it, 1098 00:32:26,145 --> 00:32:28,878 and this man had a Coke or a beer or something... 1099 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:30,213 MIKE: Oh and a beer dropped on his head. 1100 00:32:30,416 --> 00:32:30,547 Yeah... 1101 00:32:30,616 --> 00:32:32,282 [laughs] 1102 00:32:32,350 --> 00:32:33,416 BETTY: and he got so excited that he was going to catch the 1103 00:32:33,485 --> 00:32:36,420 ball, that he just covered the player with whatever it 1104 00:32:36,488 --> 00:32:37,354 was in the cup. 1105 00:32:37,423 --> 00:32:38,488 MIKE: Oh my gosh! 1106 00:32:38,690 --> 00:32:39,822 [laughing] Yeah he did. 1107 00:32:39,891 --> 00:32:40,757 MIKE: This was at a point in time where 1108 00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:44,093 technology met the innocence of an age. 1109 00:32:44,162 --> 00:32:46,763 Like the moment the beer got spilled on the outfielder. 1110 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:48,631 The novelty was the fact that they had 1111 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,500 10 images of it happening. 1112 00:32:50,569 --> 00:32:51,834 MIKE: That's incredible. 1113 00:32:51,903 --> 00:32:53,437 What are you going to do with this one? 1114 00:32:53,639 --> 00:32:54,370 BETTY: We'll sell it. 1115 00:32:54,439 --> 00:32:55,706 MIKE: 200 bucks. 1116 00:32:55,908 --> 00:32:56,773 BETTY: This has been published a lot, 1117 00:32:56,975 --> 00:32:59,109 so if you want to buy it, that's great. 1118 00:32:59,177 --> 00:33:00,310 MIKE: Yeah, because it's already framed and everything. 1119 00:33:00,379 --> 00:33:01,978 BETTY: Okay. 1120 00:33:02,047 --> 00:33:02,512 MIKE: And the fact that it was hanging in this 1121 00:33:02,581 --> 00:33:04,014 company is amazing. 1122 00:33:09,521 --> 00:33:11,788 [phone ringing] 1123 00:33:11,857 --> 00:33:12,655 MIKE: Alright Dan, we're up here in the 1124 00:33:12,724 --> 00:33:13,991 attic where the cameras are. 1125 00:33:14,193 --> 00:33:16,726 MIKE: These cameras went out, and they had these bold, 1126 00:33:16,795 --> 00:33:19,929 beautiful, famous, incredible lives, 1127 00:33:19,999 --> 00:33:22,932 and then they came full circle back to the place 1128 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:25,001 that they were manufactured, and this is where 1129 00:33:25,070 --> 00:33:27,137 they've been resting on the floor of this attic. 1130 00:33:27,205 --> 00:33:28,805 DAN (ON PHONE): What's so interesting about the Hulcher 1131 00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:32,209 cameras and his place in camera history, 1132 00:33:32,277 --> 00:33:36,145 is that he was ahead of his time and was producing cameras 1133 00:33:36,214 --> 00:33:40,149 that could record images at the fastest rates possible. 1134 00:33:40,218 --> 00:33:42,752 DAN (ON PHONE): In the '50s, he was producing cameras that 1135 00:33:42,821 --> 00:33:44,954 could record at 50 frames per second. 1136 00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:47,757 By contrast, a professional Nikon at the time, 1137 00:33:47,826 --> 00:33:50,093 topped out at 5 frames per second. 1138 00:33:50,161 --> 00:33:52,095 DAN (ON PHONE): So really, these Hulcher cameras were 1139 00:33:52,163 --> 00:33:55,765 able to capture images that were never seen before. 1140 00:33:55,834 --> 00:33:56,566 GARY: To hear this guy on the phone, 1141 00:33:56,635 --> 00:33:58,835 excited about our cameras, 1142 00:33:58,904 --> 00:34:01,037 that kind of got me excited, you know. 1143 00:34:01,106 --> 00:34:02,839 MIKE: Which camera do you want to talk about first? 1144 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:04,774 DAN (ON PHONE): How about that Model 100A? 1145 00:34:04,843 --> 00:34:06,843 MIKE: Alright. The Model 100A, we gotcha. 1146 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:08,645 DAN (ON PHONE): Gary, is that camera complete 1147 00:34:08,713 --> 00:34:10,647 and working, do you know? 1148 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:11,848 GARY: I doubt it's working. 1149 00:34:11,916 --> 00:34:13,784 I haven't looked inside of it in years. 1150 00:34:13,986 --> 00:34:15,518 DAN (ON PHONE): That's kind of a classic, 1151 00:34:15,587 --> 00:34:17,053 say early '60s on that. 1152 00:34:17,122 --> 00:34:19,990 I just happen to see the serial number was number 5, 1153 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:22,191 so clearly that's one of the first made of that. 1154 00:34:22,260 --> 00:34:26,996 The 100A increased the frames per second from the 50 maximum 1155 00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:29,800 that the 100 did, up to 75 now, so it was a further 1156 00:34:30,002 --> 00:34:31,868 improvement on the speed of that camera. 1157 00:34:31,937 --> 00:34:33,737 GARY: I was surprised that he knew so much 1158 00:34:33,805 --> 00:34:36,139 about the Hulcher cameras, really. 1159 00:34:36,208 --> 00:34:38,808 DAN (ON PHONE): I would suggest in the market place today, 1160 00:34:38,877 --> 00:34:42,211 that would sell in the 4 to $600 range. 1161 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,148 Coming right from the Hulcher factory itself and having the 1162 00:34:45,217 --> 00:34:47,884 early serial number makes it a little bit more desirable. 1163 00:34:47,952 --> 00:34:49,619 So perhaps a little bit more than that. 1164 00:34:49,688 --> 00:34:50,820 MIKE: Okay, that's fantastic. 1165 00:34:50,889 --> 00:34:52,355 What's this one Gary, what is this? 1166 00:34:52,424 --> 00:34:52,956 GARY: This... 1167 00:34:53,024 --> 00:34:54,023 BETTY: That's the 102. 1168 00:34:54,093 --> 00:34:55,492 MIKE: Here, you want to hold the phone for a second? 1169 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:56,359 I've got the camera. 1170 00:34:56,562 --> 00:34:58,495 Dan, did you get photographs of this camera? 1171 00:34:58,697 --> 00:34:59,496 DAN (ON PHONE): Yeah Mike. 1172 00:34:59,564 --> 00:35:00,563 In general, that type of camera would sell 1173 00:35:00,632 --> 00:35:02,899 in the 3 to $400 range. 1174 00:35:02,968 --> 00:35:05,101 MIKE: Gary said that it was shipped from... 1175 00:35:05,170 --> 00:35:08,638 Sports Illustrated Magazine, back to the factory here. 1176 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:09,639 How many years ago, you think? 1177 00:35:09,708 --> 00:35:12,842 GARY: Probably 30 years ago. 1178 00:35:12,911 --> 00:35:14,844 Basically they built new cameras from us, 1179 00:35:14,913 --> 00:35:15,711 and got tired of storing the old ones, 1180 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:17,647 so they shipped them back to us. 1181 00:35:17,716 --> 00:35:19,449 They didn't want them back. 1182 00:35:19,651 --> 00:35:20,584 DAN (ON PHONE): Got it. 1183 00:35:20,652 --> 00:35:22,852 You know, from a camera collecting standpoint, 1184 00:35:22,921 --> 00:35:24,854 the fact that it was with Sports Illustrated, 1185 00:35:24,923 --> 00:35:27,790 that you have the case, it looks complete, 1186 00:35:27,860 --> 00:35:30,059 it has a premium over a standard model. 1187 00:35:30,129 --> 00:35:33,663 I'd suggest the value is probably around the $500 range. 1188 00:35:33,731 --> 00:35:36,066 MIKE: Okay. Awesome, man. 1189 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:37,667 DAN (ON PHONE): The most exciting camera I saw in the 1190 00:35:37,736 --> 00:35:39,936 pictures was the prototype camera. 1191 00:35:40,005 --> 00:35:41,538 MIKE: Okay, alright well that's down here on the 1192 00:35:41,606 --> 00:35:42,005 other side of the attic. 1193 00:35:46,078 --> 00:35:47,744 DAN (ON PHONE): The most exciting camera I saw in 1194 00:35:47,946 --> 00:35:49,412 the pictures was the prototype camera. 1195 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,147 MIKE: Alright. 1196 00:35:51,216 --> 00:35:52,882 DAN (ON PHONE): So the story is that while working for the 1197 00:35:52,951 --> 00:35:53,884 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1198 00:35:54,086 --> 00:35:58,021 that Hulcher developed a prototype to study rocket 1199 00:35:58,223 --> 00:36:00,757 launches in slow motion to find out why they exploded. 1200 00:36:00,826 --> 00:36:02,626 GARY: Yeah. That-that is a true story. 1201 00:36:02,694 --> 00:36:03,960 BETTY: That's the story. 1202 00:36:04,029 --> 00:36:06,429 GARY: But it was not this camera we're holding now. 1203 00:36:06,632 --> 00:36:08,030 DAN (ON PHONE): Okay. 1204 00:36:08,099 --> 00:36:09,699 GARY: This-this prototype was called a Hulcher 100. 1205 00:36:09,767 --> 00:36:12,035 It was a huge heavy camera. 1206 00:36:12,237 --> 00:36:14,237 DAN (ON PHONE): So if it's not that very original first 1207 00:36:14,305 --> 00:36:17,974 prototype, you know, prototypes can be challenging to value. 1208 00:36:18,042 --> 00:36:19,643 MIKE: What can you tell us about this, Gary? 1209 00:36:19,845 --> 00:36:20,710 GARY: It was here when I got here. 1210 00:36:20,912 --> 00:36:22,712 I started working here 57 years ago, 1211 00:36:22,781 --> 00:36:24,114 and this was here at that time. 1212 00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:26,916 All of our early cameras were made out of sheet metal. 1213 00:36:26,985 --> 00:36:29,919 They were bent up and put together with screws. 1214 00:36:29,988 --> 00:36:31,787 That's before we had any welding capabilities. 1215 00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:34,658 This looks like it could be a combination 1216 00:36:34,726 --> 00:36:37,727 of casting and sheet metal. 1217 00:36:37,795 --> 00:36:38,395 MIKE: What is this advancing? 1218 00:36:38,463 --> 00:36:39,862 The film, right? 1219 00:36:39,932 --> 00:36:40,997 GARY: Feels like it advances the film, yeah. 1220 00:36:41,066 --> 00:36:42,999 MIKE: So the grip is actually advancing the film, 1221 00:36:43,068 --> 00:36:45,335 like you turn the grip like you would a throttle 1222 00:36:45,404 --> 00:36:46,403 on a motorcycle. 1223 00:36:46,471 --> 00:36:48,805 GARY: It's larger than 70mm. That, it looks- 1224 00:36:48,874 --> 00:36:49,272 DAN (ON PHONE): Oh that's interesting. 1225 00:36:49,474 --> 00:36:50,339 GARY: Yeah. 1226 00:36:50,408 --> 00:36:51,741 MIKE: Listening to Dan's voice, you can obviously 1227 00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:54,277 hear his passion and excitement. 1228 00:36:54,345 --> 00:36:57,881 He's actually talking to people that built the Hulcher camera. 1229 00:36:57,949 --> 00:37:00,350 A camera that he's been collecting for 1230 00:37:00,552 --> 00:37:01,618 a number of years. 1231 00:37:01,686 --> 00:37:04,086 This is like me being able to talk to George Hendee and 1232 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:06,889 Oscar Hedstrom - the creators of the Indian motorcycle. 1233 00:37:06,958 --> 00:37:09,492 DAN (ON PHONE): What is the frame rate per 1234 00:37:09,561 --> 00:37:10,760 second on that camera? 1235 00:37:10,829 --> 00:37:13,162 GARY: I don't think it was anything to do with high-speed, 1236 00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:15,165 because I don't know how fast you could turn this handle, 1237 00:37:15,367 --> 00:37:18,768 but it does have the motor, the motor's right inside the camera. 1238 00:37:18,970 --> 00:37:20,570 MIKE: Do you think you guys made this? 1239 00:37:20,638 --> 00:37:21,837 GARY: I just can't say. 1240 00:37:21,906 --> 00:37:23,172 GARY: Some of the things in the camera, 1241 00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:26,175 were some of the same things that we use in other cameras. 1242 00:37:26,245 --> 00:37:29,979 Some of the rollers, some of the spools, the gearing inside. 1243 00:37:30,048 --> 00:37:31,581 MIKE: The sight is very similar to the sights 1244 00:37:31,783 --> 00:37:33,516 that you guys continued... 1245 00:37:33,584 --> 00:37:34,717 GARY: Yes, yes it is. 1246 00:37:34,786 --> 00:37:36,185 MIKE: later throughout your run. 1247 00:37:36,255 --> 00:37:37,053 I'm telling you, here's a guy that's been doing this forever. 1248 00:37:37,122 --> 00:37:38,654 He's very curious about this camera. 1249 00:37:38,723 --> 00:37:40,590 He's like a duck on a June bug. 1250 00:37:40,658 --> 00:37:41,524 DAN (ON PHONE): [laughs] 1251 00:37:41,593 --> 00:37:42,592 GARY: It looks like something that Mr. Hulcher 1252 00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:43,727 would have come up with. 1253 00:37:43,929 --> 00:37:46,195 The ingenious way the inside is made, 1254 00:37:46,265 --> 00:37:48,931 it's unlike any cameras that we have right now, or have made. 1255 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,135 But I've still yet to figure out how it works. 1256 00:37:52,337 --> 00:37:54,871 DAN (ON PHONE): Even though there's not a lot of background 1257 00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:56,806 on it, to me that's still an exciting model. 1258 00:37:56,875 --> 00:37:58,808 It would be exciting to a collector. 1259 00:37:59,010 --> 00:38:00,076 MIKE: Well I'm glad I-I, you know what, 1260 00:38:00,144 --> 00:38:02,545 [laughs] I-I just pulled it off the shelf because 1261 00:38:02,614 --> 00:38:03,346 it had a leather strap. 1262 00:38:03,548 --> 00:38:05,148 Betty: [laughs] 1263 00:38:05,217 --> 00:38:05,548 MIKE: I was like, oh that's a leather strap, that's neat. 1264 00:38:05,617 --> 00:38:06,949 GARY: Yeah. 1265 00:38:07,018 --> 00:38:07,283 MIKE: You know, that's how much I knew about it. 1266 00:38:07,352 --> 00:38:09,018 [laughs] 1267 00:38:09,087 --> 00:38:10,887 GARY: The 2 we know exactly where it came from, 1268 00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:13,957 did we build it, did Mr. Hulcher design it. 1269 00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:17,026 I would prefer it stay here with the company. 1270 00:38:17,095 --> 00:38:18,961 BETTY: Mr. Hulcher insisted on having paperwork. 1271 00:38:19,030 --> 00:38:21,297 Where those records are right now, I'm not sure. 1272 00:38:21,366 --> 00:38:22,832 MIKE: Yeah. 1273 00:38:23,034 --> 00:38:23,500 What about drawings, did you guys actually 1274 00:38:23,702 --> 00:38:24,634 keep all those drawings? 1275 00:38:24,703 --> 00:38:25,368 BETTY: We did have drawings. 1276 00:38:25,570 --> 00:38:27,370 We had drawings of all of it. 1277 00:38:27,439 --> 00:38:28,371 MIKE: Oh wow. 1278 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,040 GARY: I would love to find a drawing on this. 1279 00:38:30,242 --> 00:38:31,774 DAN (ON PHONE): To me, the drawings are more attractive 1280 00:38:31,843 --> 00:38:33,176 even than the cameras themselves, 1281 00:38:33,245 --> 00:38:36,913 just because it shows the mind working and the origins of the 1282 00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:39,315 build of these cameras, and the progress. 1283 00:38:39,384 --> 00:38:44,254 Anything that's super unique to a collector such as a prototype 1284 00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:47,724 or drawings, or you know, kind of the inside story of a camera 1285 00:38:47,793 --> 00:38:50,860 factory, is pretty highly desirable. 1286 00:38:51,062 --> 00:38:52,662 GARY: We kept drawings of all of our cameras. 1287 00:38:52,731 --> 00:38:53,930 They're still here somewhere. 1288 00:38:54,132 --> 00:38:55,732 DAN (ON PHONE): I would suggest that those are as highly valued, 1289 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:56,599 if not more, than some of these 1290 00:38:56,802 --> 00:38:58,535 cameras we've been looking at. 1291 00:38:58,603 --> 00:39:00,202 MIKE: That's awesome. 1292 00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:01,337 GARY: They started talking about how much our drawings could be 1293 00:39:01,406 --> 00:39:04,874 worth, I thought, I'm going to start looking for them. 1294 00:39:04,943 --> 00:39:06,342 MIKE: I'm going to give you Dan's number. 1295 00:39:06,411 --> 00:39:07,410 GARY: Okay. 1296 00:39:07,479 --> 00:39:08,210 MIKE: And you guys can kind of go back and forth. 1297 00:39:08,279 --> 00:39:09,145 DAN (ON PHONE): Sure, terrific. 1298 00:39:09,214 --> 00:39:09,545 MIKE: Alright, buddy, thank you so much. 1299 00:39:09,614 --> 00:39:10,613 BETTY: Bye. 1300 00:39:10,816 --> 00:39:11,347 GARY: Thank you, appreciate it. 1301 00:39:11,416 --> 00:39:12,349 MIKE: Bye-bye. 1302 00:39:12,551 --> 00:39:13,616 BETTY: Thank you. 1303 00:39:13,685 --> 00:39:14,283 DAN (ON PHONE): Alright then, nice to meet you. Take care. 1304 00:39:14,353 --> 00:39:14,617 MIKE: Okay. 1305 00:39:14,820 --> 00:39:15,885 GARY: Bye. 1306 00:39:15,953 --> 00:39:16,753 BETTY: It is great to know that people out there really 1307 00:39:16,955 --> 00:39:20,156 appreciate our cameras as much as we do. 1308 00:39:20,225 --> 00:39:24,027 MIKE: So Gary, after listening to Dan talk about the cameras 1309 00:39:24,095 --> 00:39:26,696 and being educated by you and Betty all day long, 1310 00:39:26,765 --> 00:39:28,431 I keep falling back to what I do. 1311 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:29,832 So I'm a story guy. 1312 00:39:29,901 --> 00:39:31,768 You have documentation on this camera, 1313 00:39:31,837 --> 00:39:33,369 that it came from Sports Illustrated. 1314 00:39:33,438 --> 00:39:34,503 GARY: Right. 1315 00:39:34,572 --> 00:39:35,971 MIKE: You told me it's probably from the 1950s period. 1316 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,441 It was shipped to you, what like 30 years ago? 1317 00:39:38,510 --> 00:39:40,109 GARY: Possibly yeah. 1318 00:39:40,178 --> 00:39:41,043 MIKE: So they used this camera for that many decades. 1319 00:39:41,112 --> 00:39:42,311 GARY: They used it for a long time, yeah. 1320 00:39:42,381 --> 00:39:43,379 MIKE: Okay. 1321 00:39:43,448 --> 00:39:43,847 GARY: Yeah. 1322 00:39:44,049 --> 00:39:44,914 MIKE: That interests me. 1323 00:39:45,116 --> 00:39:45,981 MIKE: It's one thing to talk about the cameras 1324 00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:47,584 and imagine the photographer and the company 1325 00:39:47,786 --> 00:39:49,786 that used them. But when you 1326 00:39:49,855 --> 00:39:51,321 see them in the original shipping crate, 1327 00:39:51,523 --> 00:39:52,588 you can touch it. 1328 00:39:52,657 --> 00:39:54,123 So it's hands -on history. 1329 00:39:54,192 --> 00:39:55,859 MIKE: And then the box itself, I mean, I look at the box, 1330 00:39:56,061 --> 00:39:59,729 like the lid and all the places that it's been, 1331 00:39:59,931 --> 00:40:00,730 it's been shipped all over the place, 1332 00:40:00,799 --> 00:40:02,065 all over the world really, you know. 1333 00:40:02,133 --> 00:40:05,668 Still has the leather handle on it, leather straps. 1334 00:40:05,736 --> 00:40:07,804 The box has got the look. 1335 00:40:07,873 --> 00:40:09,605 I guess from a collector's standpoint, 1336 00:40:09,674 --> 00:40:10,940 I connect with this more. 1337 00:40:11,142 --> 00:40:14,810 So this one he said was worth around 500 bucks. 1338 00:40:14,879 --> 00:40:17,346 That was like a retail number on it. 1339 00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:18,147 GARY: Right. 1340 00:40:18,216 --> 00:40:19,081 MIKE: Obviously it's not working, 1341 00:40:19,150 --> 00:40:20,616 but to a sports enthusiast or something, 1342 00:40:20,685 --> 00:40:21,750 this would be the big deal. 1343 00:40:21,820 --> 00:40:23,553 What would you guys feel comfortable 1344 00:40:23,622 --> 00:40:24,954 selling the camera for? 1345 00:40:25,023 --> 00:40:26,823 Because you know, One, it doesn't have a lens; 1346 00:40:27,025 --> 00:40:28,758 and Two, it's not like somebody's going to 1347 00:40:28,826 --> 00:40:31,093 go out and use it to shoot again. 1348 00:40:31,162 --> 00:40:32,896 It's-it's really more of a piece of history from your 1349 00:40:32,964 --> 00:40:35,999 company that's a collector piece, you know. 1350 00:40:43,775 --> 00:40:44,373 GARY: She would give it to you. 1351 00:40:44,443 --> 00:40:45,308 Betty: [laughs] 1352 00:40:45,377 --> 00:40:46,375 MIKE: Yeah. 1353 00:40:46,445 --> 00:40:48,311 BETTY: What, 300? 1354 00:40:48,513 --> 00:40:49,779 GARY: Uh, 250. 1355 00:40:50,115 --> 00:40:51,714 MIKE: Now this is going to go somewhere else, 1356 00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:53,116 somebody else is going to own this. 1357 00:40:53,318 --> 00:40:56,919 But me, I get the best part of all of it, I get to find it, 1358 00:40:56,988 --> 00:41:01,591 experience it, and really connect to each piece. 1359 00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:02,324 MIKE: I would do the 300. 1360 00:41:02,393 --> 00:41:03,526 BETTY: Okay. 1361 00:41:03,595 --> 00:41:04,260 GARY: You would. Yeah. 1362 00:41:04,328 --> 00:41:04,860 MIKE: You want to do that? 1363 00:41:04,929 --> 00:41:05,261 We'll do the 300. Okay. 1364 00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:05,662 BETTY: Okay. 1365 00:41:05,864 --> 00:41:06,328 MIKE: $300. 1366 00:41:06,397 --> 00:41:07,063 BETTY: 300. 1367 00:41:07,131 --> 00:41:07,330 MIKE: Thank you very much. 1368 00:41:07,399 --> 00:41:08,331 GARY: 30. 1369 00:41:08,533 --> 00:41:09,065 Betty: [laughs] 1370 00:41:09,133 --> 00:41:09,666 MIKE: I appreciate it. 1371 00:41:09,868 --> 00:41:10,733 I love it. I absolutely do. 1372 00:41:10,802 --> 00:41:12,469 MIKE: Today was so much more than 1373 00:41:12,671 --> 00:41:14,137 I thought it would be. 1374 00:41:14,205 --> 00:41:17,874 Walking in the door, I had no idea how this one camera 1375 00:41:17,942 --> 00:41:19,808 company was instrumental in changing and 1376 00:41:19,878 --> 00:41:22,946 touching so many different industries. 1377 00:41:23,014 --> 00:41:24,881 MIKE: Alright, I'm going to grab this one. 1378 00:41:25,083 --> 00:41:26,883 BETTY: Mr. Hulcher would have loved him. [laughs] 1379 00:41:27,085 --> 00:41:28,484 GARY: He would have loved Mike, yes oh my gosh. 1380 00:41:28,553 --> 00:41:29,485 BETTY: He... yeah. 1381 00:41:29,554 --> 00:41:30,286 He would have loved Mike. 1382 00:41:30,355 --> 00:41:31,487 [honks horn] 1383 00:41:31,556 --> 00:41:32,288 MIKE: See you guys! 1384 00:41:32,357 --> 00:41:32,755 BETTY: Bye! 1385 00:41:32,824 --> 00:41:33,289 GARY: See ya! 1386 00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:33,823 MIKE: Thank you! 1387 00:41:34,025 --> 00:41:34,290 GARY: See ya, Mike! 1388 00:41:34,359 --> 00:41:34,991 BETTY: Bye! 1389 00:41:39,431 --> 00:41:40,696 [phone ringing] 1390 00:41:40,765 --> 00:41:41,497 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): What's going on? 1391 00:41:41,566 --> 00:41:43,032 DANIELLE: Guess what... 1392 00:41:43,234 --> 00:41:43,766 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): I'm sitting on the edge of my seat, 1393 00:41:43,835 --> 00:41:45,969 what are you talking about? 1394 00:41:46,171 --> 00:41:49,639 Danielle: [laughs] So the news is that we actually 1395 00:41:49,707 --> 00:41:52,575 came out on top. 1,600. 1396 00:41:52,644 --> 00:41:53,976 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): Apiece?! 1397 00:41:54,045 --> 00:41:56,579 DANIELLE: No, what?- why did you have to say that! 1398 00:41:56,648 --> 00:41:57,647 Now it's not as exciting. 1399 00:41:57,715 --> 00:41:58,447 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): [laughs] 1400 00:41:58,517 --> 00:42:00,116 DANIELLE: Uugghhh... 1401 00:42:00,318 --> 00:42:02,985 You took the wind out of my sails, man. It's 1,600 total. 1402 00:42:03,054 --> 00:42:07,123 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): Ohh... that's-that's still good. 1403 00:42:07,192 --> 00:42:09,859 Yeah, I mean, what did we pay for them, 300 bucks apiece? 1404 00:42:10,061 --> 00:42:11,794 DANIELLE: Yeah-9, yeah, 900 bucks for the total. 1405 00:42:11,862 --> 00:42:12,394 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): Ah, there you go. 1406 00:42:12,463 --> 00:42:13,996 DANIELLE: Yeah. 1407 00:42:14,065 --> 00:42:14,797 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): See? It all balances out. Woo. 1408 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:15,998 DANIELLE: Dude, I know, you're right. 1409 00:42:16,067 --> 00:42:18,067 I stress sometimes, that's it, but you're right. 1410 00:42:18,136 --> 00:42:20,870 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): Everything evens out for a reason. 1411 00:42:20,939 --> 00:42:21,604 DANIELLE: Love ya, I'll talk to you later. 1412 00:42:21,673 --> 00:42:22,005 ROBBIE (ON PHONE): Alright.