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Topic: Viva Las Vega 3 x 400 (on 1 x 1200)
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Tom Photiou
Film God
Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted October 27, 2017 04:54 PM
Tonight i cleaned up and viewed my latest purchase from Ian, the 3 x 400ft Viacom print of Viva Las Vegas. This one came to me on a decent plastic 1200ft spool which has a good large core so no side wobble.
As for the print, well, it has to be either LPP or Agfa, the print is stunning with vibrant colours, & absolutely no fade what so ever, (my images do not show how vibrant the colours are by a long way), pin sharp focus and 1st class sound. Very pleased with this one, even the joins are un-noticed as they go through the 1200HD.
As for the plot, well, did any Elvis film have one, certainly the best of the Elvis films and this edit is very very good with 80% of the edit containing his songs and dance sequences with the very yummy Ann Margret.
Lucky Jackson (Elvis) goes to Las Vegas, Nevada to participate in the city's first annual Grand Prix Race. However, his race car, an Elva Mk. VI, is in need of a new engine in order to compete in the event.
Lucky raises the necessary money in Las Vegas, but he loses it when he is shoved into the pool by the hotel's nubile swimming instructor, Rusty Martin (Ann-Margret). Lucky then has to work as a waiter at the hotel to replace the lost money to pay his hotel bill, as well as enter the hotel's talent contest in hopes of winning a cash prize sizeable enough to pay for his car's engine.
During all this time, Lucky attempts to win the affections of Rusty. His main competition arrives in the form of Count Elmo Mancini (Cesare Danova), who attempts to win both the Grand Prix and the affections of Rusty. Rusty soon falls in love with Lucky, and immediately tries to change him into what she wants.
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Kevin Clark
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 978
From: Bapchild, Kent, UK
Registered: May 2004
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posted October 29, 2017 04:45 AM
Hello Tom - I agree Viva Las Vegas is definitely one of his better movies song wise - sadly Loving You & Jailhouse Rock never made it to 8mm as far as I'm aware other than as trailers - my musical taste from my teens (until my quiff fell out) were always Rock n Roll, Rockabilly & 50's RnB so it was good to see Elvis releases like King Creole make it to Super 8 too. It's a shame there was no 'Songs from The Girl Can't Help It' digest as that would have made a great 'scope release.
Hello Winbert - I agree colour is very subjective both from cultural description and personal perception. I worked in the copier and printer industry for many years, about 20 years 'on the tools' then into service management - when we started to sell the first colour copiers I was chosen from the tech team following a near perfect enhanced colour vision test - this included the usual colour blindness tests plus enhanced colour perception to ensure you could spot all the positive and subtractive primaries as they were called and also fully understand how they react when combined together and the differences between reflective and refracted light combinations - sounds a bit OTT I know but with those early machines the technology was not supposed to be plug and play like the colour printers we have today, those old beasties were huge the size of two washing machines, and needed regular tweaking to get them right.
I would say Tom's print is just printed colder in the first place - nothing to do with the stock just the printing process, and certainly not a blue caste as all the colours can easily be seen and not tainted blue. The worst 'modern' release I can recall with an obvious blue caste was Derann's Fantasia 2000 - I tried three different prints over the years and all were too far off the correct colour balance for me to keep - all on Agfa but cold as ice colour wise.
The other thing to consider of course is the projector used - halogen, xenon, LED or HID lamp? Elmo or Schneider or other lens used? All these factors affect the screen shots even before the camera is taken into consideration.
Just in case anyone reading this wants to check their own basic colour perception a good starting point is this site:
http://www.color-blindness.com/color-blindness-tests/
Hopefully your monitors / screens are calibrated correctly too!
Kevin
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