Getting Rare or Hard to Find Movies

I'll post this once because I don't want everybody in the world doing this.

Rare and hard-to-find moves are many times available in library
collections in the United
States. These collections are in town and city libraries and in college
and university
libraries. By asking your local library for an "interlibrary loan", your
town or school
research librarian can do magic and come up with a list of all the
locations of subject film on
VHS or DVD. Then they ask the owners (nicely) if that film can be
borrowed. Most of the time,
that request is granted and some weeks or two later, the film shows up
at the requesting
library where you check it out like a book.

I personally have gotten to the point where the rare films I want exist
only as 16mm and 35mm
prints - and I don't own a filmchain (yet).

Good luck,

Marv