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Topic: MOVIE STUDIO LOGOS ON SUPER 8
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 21, 2009 01:20 PM
I too have run into this. I noticed the opposite, when I looked at the logo for a james Bond print, (Diamonds are Forever), and the UA logo had a purplish fade, and purplish blacks, and then, when the film starts, the actual print color turns to a more natural brownish black, (I say brownish, as the film is faded).
I think in both cases, though the sharpness of the print os outstanding, I think the original master negative was less than desireable to begin with, unrestored, and so the colors would not look quite up to snuff, especially when I saw that the actual leader, unspilced on but original, had very strong blacks.
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 22, 2009 11:21 AM
Winbert,
Good point, but I don't think someone would go out of they're way to have a color faded negative go through for the printing. As Tom Pennock informed me (another proud member of our forum, by the way, would love to hear from ya Tom), said that "Cubby Bricolli" son of the producer of the films, actually supervised the printing of these ...
... but that doesn't automatically mean that ole "Cubby" is a specialist as to whether something is faded. It may not have seemed apparant at the time.
You would think that in some cases, the studio would know better, especially when dealing with professional Super 8 companies, for instance, the classic issue of "Dr. Cyclops" which from what I have heard, was already faded from it's original issue.
Sorry Chip, I got off topic.
I have noted that logo's can be from very different stock and just tacked on. On the AGFA print of "Hoppity Goes to Town" all the color is perfect on the print, EXCEPT for that very first title card, "Hoppity", which is on obvious Eastman stock, spliced onto a technicolor print of "Mr. Bug Goes to Town", (original title of Hoppity). Of course, when it was originally tacked on, know one knew the better.
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