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Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on March 03, 2013, 09:50 PM:

I had no idea these existed. Just saw "Where No Man Has Gone Before" from Marketing Films on Ebay which is sold now. I thought only Canterbury Films released the original Star Trek series on Super 8. The boxes are too cool with each segment given its own "bogus" Castle Films-type title. Who Knew??!!

Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on March 03, 2013, 09:54 PM:

I don't think those were real Marketing prints - just a collector with a very creative idea of making homemade boxes!

Posted by Oemer Yalinkilic (Member # 86) on March 04, 2013, 02:49 AM:

I wanted to congratulate the seller for this fine artwork and he wrote back, that the artwork is done from someone other.
Yes, the artwork is very well done.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on March 04, 2013, 03:42 AM:

It wasn't me [Big Grin]

Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on March 04, 2013, 05:07 AM:

Hi,

marketing only released "Star Trek - the motion picture" (as a digest):
marketing international:
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/k-mfinter_stocks.htm
marketing Germany:
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/k-mfn81.htm

However not only Canterbury Films, but also Red Fox released at least one episode:
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/rezent756.htm

Jörg

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on March 04, 2013, 08:48 PM:

I believe Thunderbird Films released some Super 8 and 16mm Star Trek episodes. Someone once posted a magazine ad on this Forum.

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on March 04, 2013, 09:20 PM:

Thunderbird did put out some Super 8mm Star Trek episodes in both full length and 400' cutdowns. I'm assuming they were bootlegs since they looked like dupes, and because......they were from Thunderbird.

Doug

Posted by John Clancy (Member # 49) on March 05, 2013, 03:41 AM:

I remember being told the Star Trek episodes appeared on Super 8 because the copyright had expired so they may well have been legal at the time.

Marketing did apparently have prints of 'Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan' out there but how many there were and the legal status of those prints is unknown to me. Possibly the International arm of the company went bust just as the release date approached.

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on March 05, 2013, 06:38 AM:

Star Trek 2, i think, was the best of the movies, that would be a great title on Super 8

[ March 05, 2013, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: Tom Photiou ]

Posted by Laksmi Breathwaite (Member # 2320) on March 05, 2013, 01:09 PM:

But who would have low fade good color? Nice bootleg box.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on March 05, 2013, 02:06 PM:

Did they release STAR TREK 2 as a 400ft or a 3X400ft (like Star Trek "1")? This is quite interesting as I never knew this before!

Posted by John Clancy (Member # 49) on March 06, 2013, 03:10 AM:

Feature only. Of course this could all be complete cobblers and nothing ever made it out of the lab but I have been told prints of this title did appear full length. If they did I expect they were just check prints and perhaps a couple of extra prints on top of that before the company went out of business.

Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on March 06, 2013, 05:03 AM:

Perhaps Barry at Independent 8 can confirm this, but I seem to recall that he had a couple of 3x400ft versions (Wrath of Khan) on his list many years back...all with Marketing leaders.

Check prints just before Marketing gave up on super 8?

I'd love a copy!!

[ March 06, 2013, 07:00 AM: Message edited by: Rob Young. ]

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