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Mark Kligerman
Film Handler

Posts: 75
From: Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Registered: Jul 2014

posted November 08, 2014 02:25 PM

Would anyone happen to know if Thunderbird released titles in 16mm? If so, any information on print quality would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

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Adrian Winchester
Film God

Posts: 2941
From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004

posted November 09, 2014 12:01 AM

I have no idea what proportion of their releases were available on 16mm but some certainly were. E.g. I had the trailer reel that included Taxi Driver and Straw Dogs. My print of this was rather overexposed but this was almost certainly a fault that would hot have applied to all 16mm copies. The colour was fine but I have trailer from one of their other reels that's red, so no doubt it all comes down to the stock and when it was printed. But the 16mm prints seem extremely scarce so you'll be lucky to find any particular release.

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Adrian Winchester

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Gary Crawford
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 979
From: Manassas, VA. USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 10, 2014 07:46 AM

I have had several 16mm thunderbird prints. Most were pretty decent prints. The guy behind thunderbird was really the first to do the research and delve into finding films that were in the public domain, such as The 39 Steps....and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe....and offer them to 8mm collectors. He was a character, too, but that's another story. I believe his name was Tom Donahoo.

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008

posted November 10, 2014 12:19 PM

...Tom Dunnahoo... He ended up in jail after shooting a man.I bought quite a lot from him in "the good old days".

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