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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 27, 2007 04:52 AM
For $19,999.95 Judy Garland herself had better deliver the film!
My experience with Niles prints has not been good. The ones I have seen have had soft focus in spots and an overexposed look wherever the lighting within scenes is bright. My first feature was Niles' "Cattle Queen of Montana", which I got really cheap because it was considered faded, yet the more I look at the film, the more I'm convinced the color was never that great in the first place. For example, wherever there is a fade to black after a bright exterior shot for an instant the colors become rich, and the color is fine during interior scenes as well. (Shame, too: the print doesn't have a line on it anywhere and the sound is excellent.)
-but I guess for 20 Grand you take what you get these days!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 28, 2007 10:42 AM
Perhaps the indivisual was drunk when they listed (I was once!) and ment to hit 19.95 for a starting bid.
Anyway, I agree about Niles prints. I think it was thier printing facility. Niles released "Hoppity Goes to Town", and it tended to be over-exposed at times, and yet, Derann bought thier negative for Hoppity, and thier LPP prints of this title (from the Niles negative) were outstanding.
I once had a print of "Of Human Bondage" (Bette Davis), a Niles print, and it was abomidable. I could do better in my living room! (not really a far stretch of a statement) Terrible!
What is sad is the fact that they did release a great num ber of rare titles on Super 8, just poor quality.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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