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Posted by Nick Vermeirsch (Member # 4136) on July 31, 2018, 03:27 AM:

Hello there!

I received the super 8 film "Disneyland Attraction Highlights 2" with a magnetic stripe on it, but when i run it, there is no sound to hear... There is no label sound / silent on it. Is there a possibility that this film has a stripe, but that there was originally no sound put on it? I have never heard that laboratories put a stripe on it, but no sound. But you never know, maybe i missed something [Wink]

Or is it more obvious that someone just deleted the sound in the past?

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on July 31, 2018, 08:58 AM:

Maybe that month some accountant figured it was actually cheaper to buy more pre-striped stock and use it even for the silents. Kodak messed around with the idea of striping all of their camera stock for a while, even in silent cartridges

Maybe that week they ran out of unstriped stock and switched to striped for everything rather stop production.

Maybe that morning they had the New Guy loading film stock!

I have at least one print like this. It's a 1920s silent film and I've had it in mind to come up with a music track and record it.

Posted by Melvin England (Member # 5270) on July 31, 2018, 10:47 AM:

Nick - Many years ago the same happened to me. In the days when pocket money was my only income and sound was just a dream, I purchased a 200' black and white silent film of "Born Free" from Mailmaster films of Long Lane, London (remember them?). It had a sound stripe on it (no sound) so when I converted pocket money into salary and silent into sound, I recorded sound on it. Unfortunately, I re-recorded on it a few too many times and the audio quality deteriorated badly.

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on July 31, 2018, 11:29 AM:

My 400ft extract from Mighty Joe Young is B&W on B&W stock in a box marked silent, but this also has a (single) magnetic stripe. I don't know how to tell on B&W if it is pre or post development stripe as I don't think B&W stock had the anti-halation layer on the back that colour stock had so the brown shows through wither way. If the processing lab didn't do the sound recording too they may have striped all the copies just in case.

Posted by Barry Fritz (Member # 1865) on July 31, 2018, 02:05 PM:

OR somebody bought it, loaded it on their new sound projector that has the ability to play and record sound. Did not read the instructions for the projector and pressed the RECORD button on the projector when he started the film thereby erasing the sound.

Posted by Carter Bradley (Member # 984) on July 31, 2018, 02:32 PM:

Hi Nick,
This particular film is listed as color/silent in the last WDHM catalog of 1979. Therefore, I think it is safe to assume that it was never released in sound. But it sure is a great souvenir film, since it includes highlights of Country Bear Jamboree, Pirates of the Caribbean, Submarine Voyage, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and Space Mountain all in 10.6 minutes (projected at 18 fps)!

Posted by Panayotis A. Carayannis (Member # 1220) on August 01, 2018, 02:04 AM:

During the latest part of "the golden age of film collecting",american companies,at least,did sell quite a number of original silents with an empty soundtrack.

Posted by Nick Vermeirsch (Member # 4136) on August 01, 2018, 03:43 AM:

Ok, this is super! Thanks for the informations, guys!

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