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Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on August 02, 2018, 04:10 PM:

I was looking at our collection listing tonight and took a look at how often i had run certain prints.
In my early days of collecting The Texas chainsaw massacre was a huge deal for me and my mates. At the time it was banned anywhere in the UK outside of London so once i got the Iver 4 x 400 feature version the word was soon spread to friends and there friends too. At one point i was showing this print off to audiences three times a week. This print is one of the most run films we have, i would imagine it has been run at least 100 time over the years. There are a few shorts and trailers that have had good runs for there money, both of my reflections 200 footers have both been run well over 60 times each.
Yesterday i received a 200ft promo for the 007 movie Goldeneye. This is the Tina Turner music video which i viewed last night and i think its a stonking release and will soon become one of my most recently purchased, "most viewed " prints.
I dont know who released this reel but its a dam good short.

Whats your most viewed print?

As a footnote here, all of these films have been run on my Elmo ST12000HD, its a well looked after machine so it puts paid to all the nonsense about how these are "known" for scratching films. Yes it is the case if these,(or any projector), is run year in year out without being serviced, cleaned and worn parts replaced. My chainsaw film has no scratches and nor do the other films mentioned. My reflections UK has lines to the right but these are from the previous owner.

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on August 03, 2018, 09:57 AM:

Any of the compilation reels - Reflections (USA), Reflections (UK), Once Upon a Mouse (Disney), and the wonderful 60s British advert reel titled Flavor of the Month.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 03, 2018, 10:34 AM:

I must run one of the Fantasia extracts at least once a month.

I have a nice feature length Fantasia 2000, but I only run that when the stuff in my wife's china closet needs the dust shaken off! (hmmm! It's been a while!)

I'm with you on the Elmos, Tom: I have prints I must have run through them a hundred times without a mark on them.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 03, 2018, 11:41 AM:

Warlords of Atlantis 4X400ft Ivers

I actually later sold it, even in the deplorable state that it was in, green lines and all, but it was so much fun, it LOOKED like a "grindhouse" film. Lord knows it was the most beloved peice of celluloid I ever owned!

Next up weould be a STAR WARS 400ft print that I had forever. the color was just OK, but it was one of the very few that, for some odd reason, i still had from when I first collected super 8 back in the 80's. i had sold all my collection in the very early 90's for laserdisc (don't laugh folks, I was THAT stupid! Therea re still some super 8 optical features that I had, that I have never found since! GRRRRR!)

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on August 03, 2018, 01:07 PM:

Thanks for the replies, Osi, how did Warlords become so damaged? Was it like that when you bought it?

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 04, 2018, 11:44 AM:

Pretty much so, it already have a number of lines and a little bit O green lines, but it got a lot worse over the years, to be sure ...

... and I don't regret a single run of that print!

The nice thing is that is was letterboxed and while Kodak SP, the fade was only mininal. [Smile]

Posted by Melvin England (Member # 5270) on August 05, 2018, 03:27 AM:

Bearing in mind the countless times I projected my first two films ever on my brand new silent projector at the very beginning of this wonderful super 8 journey in the early 1970's, and just being in awe of these moving images on my bedroom wall, the two most projected prints of mine must surely be ( both 50' black and white,silent) Woody Woodpecker in "Fowled Up Falcon" and a Walt Disney thing called "Bear Trouble."

Although those have not now been projected for decades, I still have them in my possession, and have since purchased the 200' colour/sound version of "Fowled Up Falcon." I recently tracked down a 200' colour silent version of "Bear Trouble" but suspect it was never released with sound.

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