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Topic: Where to find less conventional 8mm titles
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 14, 2019 11:56 AM
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Paul Foster Films
The dealers will often help you if you let them know what you are looking for.
A big limiting factor is it's always been expensive to set up a run of film prints, so the more limited the market, the less likely a film is to ever make it out as a Super-8 print. Even after that, you have issues of survival, condition and availability.
(George Lucas has an entire carton of never-projected Star Wars digests, but until he needs the cash, they aren't for sale!)
-still the same: this hobby never stops surprising me, so I've learned not to say "That can't ever happen!".
Few people would have predicted we'd be doing this at all 20 years ago. (An uncle of mine predicted extinction would be complete roughly 1985.)
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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