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Winbert Hutahaean
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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 03, 2017 12:17 AM

About 12 years ago we had discussed this since it was auctioned at Ebay.

Our own moderator, Doug, cmiiw, won that and found out it was an odd reel of the F/L.

http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001388#000000

Now another listing came up (had ended last Nov):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Return-Of-The-Jedi-Selected-Scenes -Super-8-10-034-Reel-1983-Star-Wars-Oddity-/372123665538

I don't know if this is the same reel Doug had purchased but the photo shows it was on 800' reel and has 45 minutes show.

Price was not bad since the seller listed under obscure category.

Any comment?

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Dave Ruth
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From: Easton, PA, USA
Registered: Dec 2014

posted December 03, 2017 08:27 AM

I bought that reel hoping that it was in fact a 45 minute digest.

The same seller listed two other reels for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back and it was obvious they were just the two Ken digests edited onto one reel, so maybe I was going to luck out...

But no, It's just the last 45 minutes of the movie (including credits). It doesn't appear to have any fade and looks rather nice, but I currently have it listed for Best Offer on eBay because I don't have a scope lens and it's not exactly what I was looking for. I have it listed for $249, because I have no idea what it's actually worth, so I just threw a number out there. (I'd rather trade it, but I don't know its trade value!)

And so the search for the mythical Jedi digest continues...

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted December 04, 2017 12:38 PM

I've actually written this seller "maryann" to see if a few things that she is selling, are actually optical sound features, as "Dr No" and "Russia With Love" are shorter than the original run time, and the optical feature WERE trimmed down to about 90 or so minutes, so I explained to her what the difference is between optical sound and magnetic sound, so that folks bidding won't possibly end up with an optical sound feature when they wanted magnetic sound. [Smile]

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Adrian Winchester
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From: Croydon, London, UK
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posted December 05, 2017 07:12 PM

I have no way of confirming this but I once heard from a reliable source that Ken films considered releasing a single 400' from 'Return of the Jedi' as their final release, but it never happened for some reason.

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Douglas Meltzer
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From: New York, NY, USA
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posted December 05, 2017 09:13 PM

Adrian,

I believe the reason the ROTJ digest never happened was because Fox wanted more money for that title than Ken Films was willing to pay.

Doug

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted December 07, 2017 12:43 PM

There is an equally rare "digest" of sorts, i don't remember exactly who released it, but it was 3X400ft, scope, L.P.P. but it was actually just reel 1 of the feature and the last two reels.

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