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Brian Fretwell
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- posted February 04, 2016 04:05 PM      Profile for Brian Fretwell   Email Brian Fretwell   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
With talk about the "Fistful of Yen" extract on the forum a few days ago I watched my cut-down of "Kentucky Fried Movie" (no I didn't have any popcorn!!). It seems, from the leader, to be a Rank Labs print it was as grainy and low definition as I remember but the colour was still completely unfaded. No edge indication of stock, in fact no lettering at all there, but it must have been the good stuff.

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David Skillern
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Hi Brian,

I have a copy of "A Fistful of Yen" and "Kentucky Fried Movie" - very funny digests and still both have excellent colour and sound - Major 8 Movies did well with their releases. Last night I watched my full length marketing print of "Chinatown".

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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Still another silent night with THE ADORABLE CHEAT (1928),a pleasant romantic time waster with Lila lee and Cornelius Keefe,the story of the magnate's daughter who goes to work incognito at her father's premices,meets the handsome employee and after some minor trouble all ends happily! A not very sharp std 8 print from an unknown distributor.
SWEEDIE LEARNS TO SWIM. a funny 1914 one reeler with Wallace Beery as the ugly,clumsy Swedish maid who decides that the only way to attract men,is by learning to swim.After she causes mayhem at the beach she returns to continue practicing at home,in the bathtub.Lots of beach gags and lots of water at home.With Leo White as her master and Ben Turpin as her beau and leader of a lifeguards squad. A pin sharp super 8 Blackhawk print.
And even more water,tons of water, at another home, in A TOTAL LOSS or,DOCTORING A LEAK (1917),one of the funniest and less crude of Ben Turpin's Vogue two reelers. With Ben and Rube Miller as plumbers,enough said.A fine Blackhawk print.

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Tom Photiou
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David, i also have the two KFM extracts, colour is great as you say, we purchased ours new many years ago, the fistful of yen has very good sharp image whilst the actual sketch extract was slightly soft, at the time we sent it back to major 8 but they sent a new one with a letter saying that all of these were the same admitting that the fistful of yen was much sharper. Is this the case with yours?

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David Skillern
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Hi Tom,

I'll have to check and let you know

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Dominique De Bast
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Two films mounted on 360 mt/1200 ft tonight (it's Holiday this week :-) : La peur du scalp (The Half Breed), a western and Public Enemy with james cagney. I didn't measured scientifically and one copy is not another but I got a brighter picture with my Sankyo than with my Revue projector. The Sankyo has a 100 watts bulb (versus a 150 watts for the other machine) but is equiped with a 1.0 lens (1.3 for the Revue). Sad that Revue didn't make 1.0 lenses for the model I have (I don't know if they made any at all).

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Mark Mander
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Last night was a bit of a trailer fest all scope and stereo.

The King & I
No Business Like Show Business
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Man in the Iron Mask
Lost in Space
Cat in the Hat
The Magnificent Seven
The Great Escape
Raise the Titanic
A Shot in the Dark
The Last Samurai
Oliver
Supergirl
The Mummy
Wild Wild West

Followed by Die Another Day opening sequence scope/stereo
Escape to Athena scope/stereo 400ft
Summer Holiday scope/stereo 400ft

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Lee Mannering
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Got through a great deal Mark [Smile]

As its nearly Christmas for me it was
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Dominique De Bast
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I've just watched Don Q Son Of Zorro, my copy is not perfect (a section has a lot of lines and another one is not completely plane so got out of focus several times during a few minutes ; the rest of the film is ok) but has a music score. I mounted the film on a large spool and it was a pleasure (although the defaults mentionned above) to screen it. Yesterday, two regular/standard 8 sound films : Sail Fever and Atlanta (the Grey Seal), then a super 8 film mounted on a 240mt/800 ft spool : The Island, pinkish but ok to watch with a filter. The transitions between the scènes is a little bit too fast in my opinion. Maybe they should have reduced the film to 360 mt/1200 ft instead of 240 mt/800 ft.

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Andrew Woodcock
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Aristocats. Derann 3x 600ft feature length film plus trailers, shorts and ads all mounted to 2x 1200ft spools.

Hundreds of screenshots being posted as we speak elsewhere. [Wink]

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David Skillern
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Hi Everyone,

Yesterday I screened my optical print of "City Heat" with Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood

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Andrew Woodcock
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It still looks great doesn't it David? I got a print last year and thoroughly enjoyed showing it and reviewing it.
I was really surprised how well this one has held up! [Smile] )

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Dominique De Bast
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Just watched the entertaining "Easter Parade". It's mounted on a large spool and the sound is excellent.

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David Skillern
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Hi Andrew ,

The colour and definition is excellent - the main issue I've got with my print was that it came on 2 spools an 800ft and a 1200ft. The 800ft is great but unfortunately for the 1st 500ft of the 1200ft there is a line - possibly a clear emulsion scratch that runs on the right hand side of the print from top to bottom - I have got used to it - I will give the print another clean to see if it reduces - but it's such a good film with some great performances - I'd be unwilling to let it go - so I'll put up with this annoyance.

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Andrew Woodcock
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That's a real shame to hear David. Let's hope it is ok after cleaning.
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That is a great film you have there btw Dom! [Smile]

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Phillip R Campey
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Last night I watched my latest purchase Raiders of the lost Ark super 8 scope, this is a rare Derann print, the screen shots do not do the colour justice as this is really sharp and colourful print, the sound is stereo as well.
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Andrew Woodcock
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Stunning print Phillip! I will be in touch this evening BTW. [Smile]

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Daniel Macarone
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Andrew,
It looks like a full-length feature of Mary Poppins in your photo. I always wondered if one was released. Is it letterboxed?

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Andrew Woodcock
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It is Daniel. It was a Derann Disney release along with all of the others in the late 80's to early 90's.
It comes on 5x 600ft reels and I have written a review and dozens of screen shots of each reel in hi res over on another of these type of places if you are interested in reading it and viewing them.

Like all the Derann Disney releases except maybe the odd one, the print quality is simply superb on these.

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Dominique De Bast
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The Quiet Man, a 120 mt/400 ft optical digest.

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Osi Osgood
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How's is the colour on that, Dominique?

I'm drooling over that "Raiders" print! I have the scope feature as well which is printed on low fade, but the colour still leaves something to be desired.

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Mark Mander
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Last night's viewings were The Maltese Falcon 2x400, The Fast Lady 400ft, The Ghost Train 400ft and 600ft Great Escape(2x400).

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Zechariah Sporre
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A few nights ago we watched the Astaire-Rogers movie Swingtime
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Dominique De Bast
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Osi, my digest is in black and white. I would be curious to know how many digests have been released in super 8 with optical sound. It seems that this sound system has been more widespread then what I thought.

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Lee Mannering
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Monday 22nd Feb will see the 8th anniversary of this thread starting so a good opportunity to celebrate projecting some 8mm over the weekend.
Enjoy.

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