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Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 15, 2012, 12:56 PM:

Did "ABC Films" ever use international film labs for they're distribution of theier film prints overseas?

I know that some studios did do that, (which is why, while U.S. Ken Films STAR WARS prints are by and large, faded, the internationl Marketing Film prints of STAR WARS were printed, in large part, on agfa and Fuji), so perhaps ABC Films did this as well?

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on December 15, 2012, 03:29 PM:

Osi, you are confused between TITLES and COMPANY LABEL. When you are talking "Star Wars" it is indeed the same title but released by different companies, i.e Marketing vs Ken. So it was obviously printed by different labs.

Perhaps the correct example is WDHM where in the UK was printed by Bucks Lab but in the USA was by (?) Maritz Lab.

Cheers,

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on December 15, 2012, 03:35 PM:

I do believe that there were quite a few labs that printed the 200'
"Star Wars" as they varied in density etc which was pointed out in Super 8 collector.I think the 400' "Superman" was another
candidate,as collectors found when trying to match print with
the 3x400'.

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