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Adrian Winchester
Film God
Posts: 2941
From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted March 21, 2011 09:06 PM
I'll offer a comment, as someone who has spent nearly 30 years trying to track down Hammer material on 16mm (and 8mm).
Journey Into The Unknown: Plenty of prints in circulation, but I'm yet to see or hear of a low fade one. Some, however, have quite acceptable brownish colour (probably Kodak SP). But a possible exception can be made for the double bill 'features' that were created with guest presenters introducing 2 episodes ('Journey Into Darkness', etc). I believe that I have one of these with good colour, although I'd need to check if it's still OK, so maybe some of these were printed later.
Hammer House of Horror: I can't guarantee that no 16mm prints exist but I'm yet to find evidence of any. The problem could be that the series was apprently too graphic to achieve widespread distribution in the USA, and maybe whatever was seen there was on videotape. It was shot on 35mm, though, so I couldn't completely rule out the possibility of 16mm prints (e.g.) being used in Australia. I'm pessimistic, so I'll guarantee to pay a £50 reward to anyone that enables me to acquire any episode on 16mm!
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense: Becoming harder to find, but no shortage of 16mm prints in circulation. All the ones I've owned have been Fuji prints from the USA, so have titles saying 'Fox Mystery Theatre' instead of the HHHoM&S title seen in the UK.
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Adrian Winchester
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