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Dave Groves
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Southend on Sea, Essex, UK
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posted October 11, 2017 04:26 AM

I've just checked my Super 8 reels, two containing four 200ft cartoons. There's Walton 'Tennis Chumps' and Disney's 'Mysterious island', Alice in Wonderland' and one or two similar. All appear to have good colour but whereas (particularly in the case of 'Alice in Wonderland') they had vibrant colour, they now look very flat and dull. Is this what happens before they fade or do prints tend to lose their brightness over time? Can't say I'd noticed this before.

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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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posted October 11, 2017 05:44 AM

Dave
Perhaps the projector's lamp is on the way out.
I was running a film recently and thought that it never looked like this when last run, within a few seconds the lamp packed up.
When I removed the lamp it had become quite blackened.

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Dave Groves
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Southend on Sea, Essex, UK
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posted October 11, 2017 06:58 AM

Maurice, I was viewing it through a lens and it looked decidedly dull. I remember when I bought 'Alice in W' that the colours positively glowed. All the colours are there but look dull. I'm just wondering if this is a precursor to fading.

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Maurice Leakey
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posted October 11, 2017 10:07 AM

Dave
Now try showing with a projector with which a film is expected to be viewed. It may look different this way.
If you used a lens, you didn't say what the light source was.

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