posted August 07, 2005 09:29 AM                   

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the film was made for Buenes Aires airlines.
Not sure who struck the print

In a message dated 8/7/05 7:28:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
member@ebay.com writes:

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posted August 08, 2005 05:15 AM                   

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And no, there wouldn't have been any twin-track airline projectors, since super-8 optical only has room for one sound track. I seriously doubt they went as far as squeezing another optical track next to the sprocket holes,

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If you compare an 8mm Optical Print made in the UK against an American print, you will note that the optical track is almost pure black and white, whereas the track on a British print is dark blue. This results in the British track giving a lower level of volume and certainly more track noise, hiss and plops. Rank would never give any reason for not coating the optical tracks on 8mm prints. I hasten to add, that all 16mm prints made by the lab at the lab at that time, were coated to give optimum performances. One can only assume that in their opinion, 8mm was just not important enough for them to provide this extra service.

I was then told that a lot of the prints carried multi-tracks; the main track always being in English. But, on some prints there was another track, just on the edge of the sprocket holes, much like the balance track on a magnetic print, and this track was mostly French, German or Spanish.

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Thanks




[ June 07, 2014, 02:18 PM: Message edited by: Winbert Hutahaean ]

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