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Topic: Lawrence of Arabia, Guns of Navarone, Bridge River Kwai in Picollo (Germany) prints

Winbert Hutahaean
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posted November 19, 2007 09:26 PM

Hi all german folks,

The above three titles are very well known to have faded prints. I think this was caused by the negatives instead of fading due to the age (similar to "Sound of Music" from Ken)

Folowing Andreas' respon to my earlier post, he mention about these three titles printed by Picollo who always used different negatives.

My question, can we find the above titles unfaded (glorius colour) in germany?

thanks,

[ November 21, 2007, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: Winbert Hutahaean ]

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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posted November 20, 2007 01:20 AM

My print of "Navarone" is not faded (and it's letterboxed).

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Barry Attwood
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posted November 20, 2007 02:27 AM

Winbert,

I've had a couple of prints of "Naverone" recently with no fading, they both came in the clamshell packaging, and were really excellent. So look out for Columbia titles in Clamshell boxes as these were some of the last re-prints, and are usually still very good in colour.

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Andreas Eggeling
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posted November 20, 2007 02:34 AM

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted November 22, 2007 12:18 AM

Barry and JM thanks for the info.

I've seen two Navarone's packaging in cardboard, i.e. one in Columbia yellow generic box and the other is with an artwork cover (picturing the squad). What does the clamshell's artworks look like?

Now, what about the other two, Lawrene and Kwai, have you seen the unfaded prints in English.

thanks,

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Barry Attwood
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posted November 22, 2007 01:59 AM

Winbert,

The artwork is the same as the cardboard versions, just placed in the middle of the clamshell box, I personally have not come accross the other 2 titles yet with clamshell packaging, but I would imagine they are out there, and if they are then you have a better chance of an unfaded print, as all clamshell releases were later printed releases.

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted December 03, 2007 12:48 AM

Andreas, why I cannot open your link, http://www.mediavana.de/piccolo250.wmv ?

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