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Topic: Disney's Hunchback/Notre Dame.super8.
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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1633
From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted February 20, 2006 03:15 AM
Hi Andrew, I love this film.
For me, it represents the pinnacle of Disney's come back through the 1990's as they re-invented their animated movies as Broadway-style musicals. Whilst perhaps not the most perfect of the crop, it is certainly the most daring as Disney finally tried to give a more adult edge to it's animation (still hard to believe that the "Hell's Fire" sequence is Disney!)
A shame that they have since regressed to drab formulaic films.
Anyway, I digress!
I have one of the early super 8 prints and have to say in this case it is just about the best super 8 image you are likely to see. From Disney's negatives, this Derann print is razor sharp with absolutley beautiful colour. It really is a stunner!
Printed full frame, the edges of the original 1.85:1 ratio are slightly cropped, but you'd never notice. One part of my copy does suffer slightly from sideways weave but this is the slitting of the print and not built into the negative (as we all know, each print is different!)
The stereo sound is booming. This is such a rich and complex soundtrack to reduce to super 8 stereo, but those little mag. stripes do a decent job and whilst it isn't always the clearest sound, it does always remains "big" and impressive. Again, one part of my copy was a little dull sounding, but a re-record by Derann produced a much sharper quality, which suggests that the actual sound masters are very good indeed.
There are a few background bass pops and bumps on some sections. I've heard this on a few of the Disney's but it is difficult to tell if they are on the master or a result of the sound stripe. I don't think they are too distracting. Certainly all prints are produced with Derann's own post-applied stripe (mine has the early orange coloured stuff).
My advice is find yourself a copy and enjoy ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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