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Topic: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (400ft. C/S)
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 21, 2017 11:20 AM
Columbia super 8 certainly missed out on a golden opportunity to have a very good selling scope or Cineavision 400ft digest, to be sure.
What is so odd is that Animex/Cineavision DID release the extra long (about 5 or 6 minutes) trailer for CE3K, so, either thry had access or permission from Columbia, (as they're releases were official releases from the parent company with permission) ...
or ...
That trailer was released without permission? At any rate, a rare and nest trialer to have, though it was printed on fadey eastman and so buyer beware, but i have seen some unfaded copies show up now and then. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted October 24, 2017 12:59 PM
I actually haven't done one of these reviews in quite awhile (good Ole Tom and have taking up my "slack" ), but I thought that with my latest aquisition in my collection, this bear doing.
This is, of course, the classic 1978 Speilberg films, released during the "heyday" of the UFO interest, (for those who don't know, the world was crazy with thought of UFO's), and Speilberg released this very gentle science fiction film with a very different plot twist to the whole "aliens visit earth" genre ...
The aliens are friendly ...
Which speilberg would later build on with his classic film "ET".
Speilberg untilized ghis favorite actor of choice at the time (Richard Dreyfuss), to play an everyday man who has more than one experience with UFO's and is nearly driven out of his mind to pursue the truth for ...
"The Truth is Our There"
... He gets images of a certain place in his mind which he must go to, in shaving cream (no kidding) as well as mashed potato's ect. In his journey, he is joined by a young woman (Melinda Dillon), who's son has been abducted by UFO's (in one of the films great sequences), and they meet in another of the films many great special effects sequences, (on a deserted highway). They team together and eventually arrive at they're "dream" destination, Devils Tower Wyoming, where the governmant has been planning secretly to have a "rendevous" with the aliens and end up also sending an earthling or two to other worlds aboard the alien mothership.
Watching this film yet again today it really hasn't aged at all, story-wise or dramatic effect. The special effecst still awe from beginning to end, nor do they show they're age. In an age where STAR WARS was becoming the benchmark illustration for what a science fiction film should be, Speilberg showed a more deicate and beautiful way to the stars.
Now, the print review ...
I bid on this digest, which I had previously owned years before (not this epecifc one), as i was floored by the absolutely unfaded print that was offered in auction. The colors are as pristien as they were upon being printed. I must say that most of the digests of this film are either starting to fade or are badly faded and I was overjoyed to find this one AND, at a very reasonable price for it's condition!
... and there is a reason for that.
It's on AGFA 2S film stock! I always thought this only came out on fadey eastman film stock, but I'm happy to say that i have been proved wrong. Either this was just a print run of this digest that happily made it onto Agfa during the original print run OR it is a re-print, (perhaps by Columbia itself) at a later time on Agfa. it was certainly one of thier best selling digest titles.
The edit of this digest is masterful, (someone far better than I could verify this, but from what i understand, Speilberg himself was involved with the edit of this digest), as it encapsulates the complete film is a very nice 18 or so minute digest. Though this is on a 400ft reel, it IS longer than most 400ft digests of it's day. I also like how, at the beginning, it has Columbia Pictures best (in my opinion) logo at the beginning. A very nice touch for the digest. Also, i am MOST THANKFUL that this digest was released earlier on, when there wasn't an irritating person nararating the digest for you. I mean, heck, if you're buying the digest you already know what is going to happen or be seen, you don't need a bloody nararator!
The mono magnetic sound is booming, a very loud but not distorted sound quality that was very enjoyable. As to sharpness, focus, it is actually sharper than I remember this digest roginally being. Either that, or my eyes are better know, (I doubt that!)
Please note that the screenshots for this digest that I have included, are from the ebay auction but ARE from this print, but I apologize for the "glare" in the shots, but they most certainly prove that yes, there ARE great digests of this print out there.
I thank you for you're time and, of course ...
LONG LIVE SUPER 8!!!
[ October 25, 2017, 11:32 AM: Message edited by: Osi Osgood ]
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