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Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on 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

Posted by John W. Black (Member # 1082) on 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

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on 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.
[Cool]

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on April 17, 2009, 06:32 AM:

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

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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?

Posted by Jonathan Sanders (Member # 478) on 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.

Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on 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.

Posted by Larry Arpin (Member # 744) on April 18, 2009, 11:27 PM:

Ended at $565.88.

Posted by Lance Alspaugh (Member # 27) on April 19, 2009, 01:13 AM:

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

LA

Posted by Julian Antos (Member # 1526) on April 19, 2009, 12:29 PM:

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

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on 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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