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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 12, 2016 12:06 PM
A little bit O info on Disney ...
The first feature prints, not truly available to collectors (as they were originally not meant to make it to collectors hands), were the optical sound super 8 prints of Disney features. I know that one fellow collector who lives/lived in Florida, has a full length print of 1967's "The Jungle Book" as a super 8 optical sound feature. From recollection, he said that it had fade to it, but i found it interesting that this early on, there were super 8 feature prints.
Then, in the 70's, pirate prints of Disney films started to show up. I remember a deplorable "Snow White" print that looked like it has been printed on a view-master (IT WAS TERRIBLE), but it was the feature, with good color and an impossible focus and sound that seemed like it was recorded in a lavatory.
... and then ... came Derann ....
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Andrew Woodcock
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From: Manchester Uk
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posted August 12, 2016 01:25 PM
On optical sound I've also seen Jungle Book advertised for sale Osi. You're dead right, they are red now and have probably been this way for a number of years truth be told.
On Pirate S8 Disney prints (mainly Italian the ones I've seen) I've seen plenty for sale including titles Derann didn't release.
These include Bedknobs, Herbie,Robin Hood and the original rescuers.
I briefly owned a print of Sleeping Beauty that was a dupe.
It was spectacularly awful on each and every level!
Never Again. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
I took it privately from a collector on a sale or return basis.
The chap was a lovely elderly gentleman and gave me my money back the very next day.
I did however buy many superb prints from him also.
With the Disney prints, I really don't believe if you've seen the Derann prints, you could ever be entirely satisfied with any others.
There is an enormous difference, understandably of course,given their origins.
[ August 12, 2016, 04:32 PM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted August 13, 2016 12:08 PM
I think that's why I'd still like to find the Derann "Fox and the Hound"! This print that i have, while pretty good, really can't compare to the screenshots i have seen from the Derann print.
There have been a few times where i have actually prefered the 'pirate" print ot the official Derann. I have seen screenshots from a kodachrome print of "bambi', taken froma pristine source print, and it's in the original full frame and not letterboxed like the Derann print and i have to admit that I'd rather see the original aspect ratio of a film from it's original release if possible.
Itlay was also the source for a VERY rare 1943 RKO print of "fantasia" which ran approximately 75 minutes or so, but also had the "censored' footage as a part of it. Granted, the iamge quality was not the Derann quality, but there is nearly nowhere else that you can find that footage, (except in some equally rare 16MM copies of the same).
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