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Topic: Watching Digests Without Watching the Feature First?
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted July 02, 2016 11:05 PM
We ran "UP" when it came out as one of our big ones for the school holidays. The effect on a full audience during the first few minutes "kids and the adults" was amazing, you could hear a pin drop in the cinema, this was serious stuff "on life" on the screen and not what anyone would expect from a kids CGI film.
"UP" is a brilliant film, and to this day I am kicking myself for letting go one of the two 35mm prints we had. One had a damaged reel when it arrived, the other was the replacement which we screened. I could have taken the first few minutes of the damaged print "that part was fine" as a stand alone short, and nobody would have been any the wiser, as in the end that print went to the scrap
For me with those Super8 digests, its nostalgia, great to return to a time before VHS tape, where to watch anything larger than a small B/W TV at home, those digests were really something "movies at home" buying features back then, if you could afford to get them was way out of my price range, so the digests were just the thing, sadly so much film from that era has by now been subject to a certain amount of fade, sadly just like the owners
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted July 05, 2016 11:43 AM
I'm sure that some would not agree with this statement, but, even though i have the scope ALIEN feature, I actually prefer to watch, in most cases, the 400ft digest, which is an excellent edit of the film, (but sadly, not scope).
This is mostly due to time restraints and my children not having a very long attention span (curse you, Sesame Street!!!)
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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