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Topic: Help needed, The Professionals / The Persuaders Super 8
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David Ollerearnshaw
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1373
From: Penistone Sheffield UK
Registered: Oct 2012
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posted February 04, 2014 02:59 PM
I have 2 'UFO' episodes on super 8 from Techno Films these were 3x400ft complete I think, they also did them as 1x400ft. 'Strange Report' I had, but Italian sound so had to send back. 'The Protectors' were 2x400ft so could be complete, they were 25 minutes. I also bought 'Zoo Gang' optical sound, very quiet sound but good image, 3x400ft.
I think 'The Persuaders' were also 2x400ft, as were 'The Champions. With the odd one 3x400ft. I never recall seeing 'The Professionals' though.
I must say I have a love of the old ITC productions, luckily most are available on dvd/blu-ray, but they were done on film 35mm and in colour, although in the UK we could only see them in B/W. Sir Lew Grade the ITC man was very forward looking filming in colour.
He stopped flying with British Airways when they introduced a ban on cigars. [URL=https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cinnamon+spice&client=firefox-a&hs=WiT&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=XU_xUom1JLCu7AahnYH4Bg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg&biw =1262&bih=590#q=sir+lew+grade&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch]Sir Lew[/URL]
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I love the smell of film in the morning.
http://www.thereelimage.co.uk/
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Kurt Jensen
Junior
Posts: 15
From: Oslo, Norway
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted May 09, 2014 07:01 AM
Hi there!
Can't let THE PERSUADERS on Super 8 go! "Seek and you shall find", as they say, and that's certainly been the case for me recently!
In order to track down THE PERSUADERS on Super 8 I thought I'd have a check on Italian Ebay. And it prooved very succesful. A while ago I found CHAIN OF EVENTS (first broadcast October 16th 1971) or CATENA DI EVENTI as the episode is called in Italian. Dubbed in Italian of course but I got the English soundtrack on a DVD so I can rerecord the soundtrack if I want to!
Recently I also found THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE DEADLY (first broadcast October 23rd 1971). At least I think it's that one. It's in the mail as I write this so haven't had a chance to check yet. The Italian title is L'AQUILA DI BRONZO. The bronze eagle! But this kind of fits in with the plot where a girl tries to clear her fathes name from being accused of being a Nazi and the answer lies in a statue of a bird! Again Italian soundtrack of course!
Winbert mentioned earlier on this forum that there might be a Super 8 Tecno print of the episode DEATH IN THE FAMILY (first broadcast January 12 1972). And this rises very exiting possibilities! Maybe there are three Techno film episodes of THE PERSUADERS out there! I'll keep on digging!
Alexander mentioned on this forum that that he had a couple of episodes of THE PERSUADERS with optical sound. And most likely, as you mentioned David, they are British Airways prints. My initial thought then was that maybe British Airways got hold of some prints of THE PROFESSIONALS as well! But on second thought, probably not, since THE PROFESSIONALS was concidered very violent in those days and probably to "hard" to show on a flight......
And back to "seek and you shall find"! Stumbeled over information of a Spanish Super 8 THE PERSUADERS release! LOS PERSUASORES! The tiltle is I think, (It's hard to read what's on the box in the picture) AQUI MONTECARLO (ATENCION A ESOS DOM). Roughly translated that should be; Here Monte Carlo (Warning Dom to those) or something like that! This is probably a cut down from the tv movie MISSION: MONTE CARLO from 1974. I guess it's just one 400ft reel. Still, would be great fun to have, so I'll keep on looking!
All the best, KURT!
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