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Brian Hendel
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: New York, New York
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posted April 16, 2009 09:29 PM

Where did this come from?!?! I have never seen a feature print of Frankenstein before... Does anyone know what distributor released it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=310136016401

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John W. Black
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posted April 16, 2009 10:17 PM

Probably a bootleg,In the 70s there was a guy in Texas and one in Calif. bootlegging prints,quality could be good,I had a bootleg Duck Soup that was excellent.And the Ebay seller is a great guy who has been doing this for over 30 years

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Michael De Angelis
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posted April 17, 2009 12:53 AM

John,

Do not forget Animal Crackers, another Paramount Picture
that was part of the Universal / MCA library.

Indeed, those Universal prints are believed to be bootlegged,
and another rare title in 8mm is Million Dollar Legs.

I do not believe that this W.C. Fields print is bootleg.
A time long ago, were there early 8mm prints of Psycho?

I have some bona fide silent standard 8mm features printed from the U/A
negatives of La Boheme, Lilac Time, Beau Gueste, and
The Patent Leather Kid.

Hmmmm..... ah yes.
The mystery circulates again.
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Joe Caruso
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posted April 17, 2009 06:32 AM

And Meet Frankenstein as well. How do they manage these with Universal?

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Osi Osgood
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posted April 17, 2009 10:13 AM

The seller is Dave Thomas of "Dave Thomas Films" of yesteryear, (who is still selling new Derann prints these days ... at least, the cartoons), and Dave has always been an up and up (that's good) seller, so I'm sure that its a decent print.

I don't think that Dave ever dealt in bootlegs.

Perhaps it's a German print?

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Jonathan Sanders
Film Handler

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From: Bath, England
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posted April 18, 2009 03:41 AM

The early (late 1960s or early 1970s) complete prints of PSYCHO mentioned above were Standard 8mm released in the UK - by Derran, I think, though I may be wrong about that.

It was one of a batch of titles licensed from Universal; others I recall were THE INVISIBLE MAN and THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, released complete but only in Standard 8 as far as I know.

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Brian Hendel
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: New York, New York
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posted April 18, 2009 06:04 AM

Yes, it was Derann who put out Psycho, Invisible Man, and Ghost of Frankenstein as regular 8mm full length features in the 60's. I believe they were just rental prints since they had no artwork on the boxes... it's interesting these were all on five reels and complete - rather than the four reel features they eventually started putting out. It's too bad they never got to print them on super 8. They also had Evil of Frankenstein as part of their early Universal deal since their print was the US TV version not the British cut.

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Larry Arpin
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posted April 18, 2009 11:27 PM

Ended at $565.88.

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Lance Alspaugh
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From: Los Angeles, Ca
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posted April 19, 2009 01:13 AM

Indeed it did go over 5 bills. I had it at 4.

LA

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Julian Antos
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From: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Registered: Mar 2009

posted April 19, 2009 12:29 PM

Yikes! You could get a good 16mm print of Frankenstein for about half that...

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Michael O'Regan
Film God

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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted April 19, 2009 01:08 PM

Thats exactly what I was thinking.

Thats way too much money for a Super 8 print of anything IMO.

-Mike

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