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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted June 29, 2007 05:38 PM
It's almost suprising to hear that Red Fox had rights to "Poltergeist", but perhaps not.
... as Derann was able to secure "Master and Commander" only a few years after it's release.
Someone hit it on the head on an earlier post, (on another post, that is), The former fellow at Derann championed things so
and went to battle to get so many of those Derann features out there.
Therefore, someone who has the finacial clout. Better yet, someone who rebels against the thought of digital and might be willing to fight the fight to get more features out there.
Now granted, Not everyone has my kind of mindset, but lets say you have some person in the Hollywood arena, who has more money than he'll ever need, who would be willing to just invest
say, $500,000 to get the film labs "in-house" and just get the thing going.
I can personally say, that if I had those kind of funds, (if you market your CD's just right, you can literally live off the interest alone.) I would be happy to invest in getting an american Super 8mm film company going again!
alas, all the wrong people have all the money!
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Frank Picaro
Film Handler
Posts: 63
From: Pine Beach, NJ,USA
Registered: Apr 2007
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posted June 30, 2007 12:50 PM
Osi, I'm sure THEY don't think they're the wrong people, of which, sadly, I'm not one. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
A super 8 film company would be fantastic. To have access to new films makes us all drool. Thank God we can rely on DERANN to feed our cinematic appetite. Still, having a DERANN satellite here in the states is the ideal scenario for those of us here. Dave Thomas Films on ebay does deal with DERANN. He's a grand fellow, and very helpful ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
To all our British friends, keep that stiff upper lip after those maniacs left their deadly cars. Our thoughts are with you, friends.
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Seems? I know not seems!!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted July 01, 2007 01:52 PM
This is of course, completely off track from the start of this post, but isn't it intersting how we are highly entertained by
terrorism on film, (Black Sunday, for instance), and then are
horrified when it happens in reality? That's no reflection on people, british or otherwise.
As stated before, best wishes to our U.K. friends. Here's hoping they catch the S.O.B.s REAL SOON!!
Back to Red Fox. It sounds as if they were, overall, a higher class super 8 company. I must say that thier negatives must have been above average.
I really appreciate thier release of ads of thier time. I have two reels of ads from them, two reels, 400ft. which are compilations of 2X200ft. sets. One of them are advertising TV ads, the other is 16MM TV ads for theatrical feature films. Both reels are okay, (somewhat grainy), but the rarity of them makes them fun, (as well as remembering some of them ole ads.)
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