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Topic: Those Red films and awfull cutdowns!
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Tom Photiou
Film God
Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted February 01, 2004 11:23 AM
This is a favourite subjects and i am interested
In seeing everyone’s views on it. When I mentioned
It in the FFTC mag over a year ago I didn’t get one
Response!
As I understand it from Paul Foster the 3 x 400 marketing
Films generally seem to hold colour very well whereas the full
Features are suffering badly It appears that the full features were printed
By a different company and on different stock, is this correct? Does Anyone have any 3 x 400 marketing films on the turn? On the subject Of editing, those Columbia 400fts! Blimy, there were times I could have Asked the editor to resign, and the narrator, laughable at times. I think it’s many of the poorly edited 400 footers from the likes of Columbia / ken that gave bootlegs cinema a bad name and the demand for Full length feature, Mountain films supplying some of the very worst, even When the editor was given 4 x 400 ft to play with they still got it so wrong. Its ironic that they began to pull their socks up as the VHS video Was becoming a threat. Oh BTW any films kept in lofts or humid heat in centrally heated,(this has a lot to answer for) bedroom cupboards ets will almost certainly turn.COOL or cold is the word,and dry.
Ps. Don’t forget to keep up the replies referring to the FFTC mag, I shall use some Of the comments and ideas to put a case forward to Derann and most impotantly,
To us the collectors, lets turn up the heat on everyone!
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Trevor Adams
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 763
From: Auckland,New Zealand
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted February 02, 2004 10:52 PM
Some 3x400 digests do very well.Ben Hur,Dr Zhivago,Mutiny on the Bounty,Quo Vadis,Viva Las Vegas,Meteor,StarTrek,Escape from Alcatraz-all seem to be holding their colour well.
I rather like the 400ft digests of Ducksoup,Horsefeathers and Monkey Business.Thoroughly Modern Millie is a neat wee 400fter.There will always be a place on my shelves for my favourite digests!Trev
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Tom Photiou
Film God
Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted February 03, 2004 02:44 PM
Chris, your right about some of the crabby quality stuff from the 70s, when i buy 2nd hand i'm amazed at some of the duff junk ive been sent, suffice to say it goes straight back again, to think that someone must have paid for it when new and accepted it ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) What gets my goat is when a dealer puts out on the list Pinkish/red otherwise ok, what is that meant to be,it means the film is now useless but give me your dosh anyway if your that gullable! When are we going to get a-e ratings on the lists that mean the condition of the film AND the quality, this is an argument i have had with more that one dealer, i ring up and say i got my film but the picture is a bit duff and you gave it an A, the reply is "the A is the condition of the print". ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
Back it goes! am i alone on this? or am i just unlucky ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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