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Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on March 24, 2015, 04:27 PM:

Today I spoke to Phil at CHC.
You will all know about me requesting help for the magazine on his behalf.
I'm trying again at his request, as so far to date he still has nothing apart from what I have given him from any other collector apart from an item I received from Ken Layton, Thank you Ken.
Now here is what Phil is after,
He likes the idea of having a regular "readers review" page. Specifically he is asking us all to let him have reviews of our movies, equipment, 8 or 16mm, or any other film gauge. You may think you have all the reviews you need but he is specifically asking for our own personal reviews of our own prints & equipment.
Phil isn't too well at the moment so anything like this will be a big boost for him. We all do reviews on here so lets convert them into a "Bill Davidson" style for our own magazine. No support means it will die a death. [Wink]

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on March 24, 2015, 04:44 PM:

Film reviews and projector reports, apart from the odd new releases, have all been done plenty of times already Tom.

Though interesting, If I was buying a magazine today, I have to say I wouldn't want to read the same reports as I read in movie maker or FFTC 20 or 30 years ago.

Apart from repair articles or new parts coming to market etc ,
(which is becoming far more relevant as time passes), without sounding negative, the rest just appears to be covering old ground to me unfortunately.

New Home Cinema shots, new sync apparatus etc etc, are all new and interesting, but me or anyone else writing a review on Beauty & The Beast for example... well to me it just seems to be revisiting old news sadly.

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on March 24, 2015, 06:27 PM:

i do see your point there Andrew, i think what phils looking for is perhaps an updated version, for example, i have recently received a few films i purchased and i think Phils looking for my own review of the print. In other words, not so long on the actual storyline so much as what the print is like compared to when it was released. how its held up, (or not). Does that make sense?

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on March 24, 2015, 06:34 PM:

Yeah sure Tom. I am getting "All Dogs Go To Heaven" in the next few days, so as it quite a rare one on the review front, I shall post a review on here once I have watched it a couple of times.

I will include a few screen shots Tom as well if you want to include the review word for word. [Razz]

I got the other Don Bluth to this from Phil but sadly the soundtrack is awful on reel 1 until I re record it. So no review on "NIMH" just yet ha ha.

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on March 24, 2015, 06:52 PM:

with your permission Andrew that would be good. [Wink]

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on March 24, 2015, 06:54 PM:

Of course Tom, always mate, if anything is either of interest, or indeed worthy of print.

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on March 25, 2015, 05:46 AM:

With all the requests and answers to projector problems on here perhaps they could all be collated (or the most common ones) into an article on projector repairs. Or even a series of them make by make.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on March 25, 2015, 05:58 AM:

It would be nice to have more informations about new super 8 relases (content and price) and new projects as the website of chc is more than discreet about that.

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on March 25, 2015, 06:06 AM:

Both suggestions sound good to me Brian & Dominique!

I don't think Phil commits to new releases much these days until he see's what interested parties there are out there.

I don't suppose now many would do what Derann did, buy a print or Negative, make a run from it, slit it, stripe it, record it, box and spool it and then hope to sell a batch of it.

It would be nice if somebody did take the gamble though I suppose even if it was just on 2x 600ft cut downs like "Captain America".

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on March 25, 2015, 03:33 PM:

If someone felt able to do it, an article or series covering whether or not it's possible to find good colour prints of releases from before low fade stocks more or less took over around 1983 would be very interesting. It would involve considerable knowledge and research, though, as (e.g.) certain Walton releases were re-printed by both Portland and Derann, so it would be important to cover reprints. Someone could easily say that there are no low fade Universal 8 releases, but members here who have seen the threads in question know otherwise.

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