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Topic: Did people pay film based on the actual length?
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted December 09, 2007 11:13 PM
Hi all,
I was not into 8mm yet when it reached the peak in 70s.
But now, when I have 8mm films I often curious how the company priced their films.
We all knew that 200" or 400" reel did have various length of film. But on Ken's or Castles' catalogs they were priced all the same (based only either colour/bw and or sound/silent) without mentioning the actual length.
But on the latest Walt Disney and Universal 8 releases, the company did mention the actual length, varies from 6-9.8 minutes for 200" or 15-19 minutes for 400".
So during that time, when the company was (already) honest with the length, did they priced differently?
As far as I knew, if there every 1 minute equals to 20 feet of film.
Advise me please,
-------------------- Winbert
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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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Posts: 2392
From: France
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted December 10, 2007 03:10 AM
Film Office, the French Super 8 leader, had a very detailed price list and you would pay by the foot/meter. They had a selection of shorts on 50 and 200ft reels (b&w, colour, sound or silent, like Chaplin, L&H, cartoons of all sorts) and they were the distributor for Disney. All with fixed prices, Disney spools being more expensive.But other titles were sold by linear meter. For instance, if you wanted the King Kong reduction, you had to buy the boxed set of two reels holding 215 meters (675 ft) for 632.10 French Francs (130 US dollars of 1981). But this ended with Kong being gased and captured on Skull Island. To make the digest complete, you had to purchase the reel called "King Kong in New York", on one reel holding 106 meters (318 ft) of film for 311.64 FF (62 USD).
The company moved to VHS in 1982, and all super 8 stocks were binned. It then switched to DVD. It went bust a couple of years ago.
-------------------- The Grindcave Cinema Website
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