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Topic: Star Trek the Motion Picture 3 x 400
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Tom Photiou
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Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted February 06, 2018 04:03 PM
No need to tell you the plot of this 1979 movie, This is the marketing 3 x 400ft version joined onto an 800ft spool, we bought this one new upon its release so this copy is probably around 35 years old at least. Bearing that in mind this copy ,while showing early signs of fade, has held up very well. As always i am a little frustrated with these images as you cannot see the colours we do on the screen, the blacks are still black with only one or two scenes in reel one showing that light red hue. Now this is one that marketing did edit quite well, and with a Paramount logo to open up and an original end caption, you do actually feel like you have watched the film. No sudden edits and no cuts in the soundtrack. If only they did this well with All of there 3 x 400ft releases.
The last time i viewed this print was 31/01/2013, five years ago, the comment on my log, (captain Tommy's Log), was "light fade,5%". This doesn't appear to be any different today so we are very pleased. There should be a few good years left in this one yet. Well edited, fast moving and great quality.
As this is a review here is a summary,
The Federation calls on Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Starship Enterprise to contain an immense nimbused object that's on a crash course with Earth. After investigating, the crew discovers that the alien cloud harbours artificial intelligence with an ominous primary directive. Crisis strikes when a probe dispatched by the energy cloud attacks the crew, abducting navigator Lt. Ilia (Persis Khambatta). An android look-alike containing her memories shows up soon after
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 07, 2018 12:29 PM
As long as the indoor storage facility stays in business ...
I had a fellow collector friend who went overseas for awhile (a little over a year), who didn't know that the business/storage facility went out of business and didn't tell him. Many of the storage units were broke into but worse (in his case) was that all facilities were obviously shut off, and with temperatures in Idago getting to, sometimes 108 degrees during the summer, (and this was a brick facility) ...
Many of his prints "baked" and while the low fade prints survived, largely unscathed, he had a great number of non-low fade prints, and they were toast! ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Great review as always, Tom!
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 17, 2018 11:54 AM
I forget who it is, but someone on this forum or elsewhere, makes his own reproductions of boxes (or brand new boxes that never existed before), and kind of follows the marketing look for his covers. They are very nice.
It's funny, I sold my "Raiders of ther Lost Ark" 400ft, but i recently dug out the original box for it, (Marketing), now I'm wishing that i had the film in it. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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