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Topic: Color Universal 8 Logo
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 29, 2017 10:56 AM
This is so funny ( hoho .. haha, tee hee, Hyuk Hyuk!)
(well, not that funny) ...
... as i have found, on every single very GOOD color 2X400ft Universal 8 digest that, while the actual digest itself still has awesome color, the actual Universal 8 logo itself will almost never have perfect blacks and actually look like it has reddish fade to it and mind you, the rest of the digest will look fine.
Well, actually, that tends to be a real hit or miss with Universal 8. others have noticed this as well. Take "The Blues Brothers", for instance. There are sequences in the film that the color is spot on the the letterbox black bars on the top and bottom are a perfect jet black, and then the next sequence, gone are the perfect blacks to the letterbox and the image clearly is suffering from a reddish hue.
This means, of course, Universal 8's quality control could be a real hit and miss situation. mind you, the great color versus poor color are all on the same print, nothing outside being spliced in by the collector.
It seems that this was also more of a problem with the later 2X400ft releases than the earlier ones. "JAWS" has perfect color from beginning to end, (faded Universal 8 logo, however), but others, like the previously mentioned "Blues" are, well, not so great.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 30, 2017 12:05 PM
"Moon-lighting" great 80's show there, Brad!
The funny thing is that, a few of the Universal 8 2X400ft digests DID get re-printed by someone else. "XANADU", for instance, got re-printed (by who, I don't know), on L.P.P. film stock. I don't know how many lucked out in that regard.
One digest in-particular, "Slapshot' seemed to luck out on some very good wastman film-stock, but it was before L.P.P., so, either it was experimental low fade film-stock un-marked, or just an incredibly good batch of rep-L.P.P. eastman, as it has spot on color, (and yes, the Universal 8 logo is terribly red!)
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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