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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted January 24, 2007 04:53 PM

Hey guys, I have the opportunity to buy a print, and I'm looking for the LPP print of it, (Hoppity Goes to Town), could you folks tell as to whether an "Eastman Polyester prestriped print" would be an LPP print?

I ask this as I know that not all LPP stock was labeled as such.

I thank you for your time.

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Mark Todd
Film God

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From: UK
Registered: Aug 2003

posted January 24, 2007 07:08 PM

Hi Osi as you oviously know there are odd kodak poly stocks that hold up well and some may even be early tryouts at low fade, trouble is they are mixed in with the fadey stocks at the same time, some SP stock with a number or two after the date code is pretty good and could be LF.!!!!!!!!!!
As with this title there seem to be a lot of faders about if I were you I would make sure its got LPP actually printed on it, probably the 1983 date code or maybe odd one with 82.
Keep a lookout in the UK as I think the derran copies here are possibly more likely to be one.
I had that and gulliver on LPP once, very nice.
Good luck,Best Markk.

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted January 24, 2007 09:12 PM

This film is a strange one. I have a Derann print of this, an early one, and reels one and four are quite nice, while, interestingly enough, two and three have bad fade, but the strange thing, is that I looked carefully at my print and
where the reels would change, (in the original release reels), it hasn't been spliced but the print suddenly loses a lot of colour, and then, back to reel four, where the colour returns to normal.

Kevin Clark has an LPP print of this film and the colour is outstanding, but even he notes that the colour near the end of the print, on reel four, has a warmness to it.

The seller states that the colour is warming, so I'm not sure that this is an LPP or not, but I have also noted that some of my earlier Derann LPP prints, from the early 80's have a slight fade to them.

Need more info folks!

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