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John Halfacre
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From: Broxbourne, UK
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posted October 30, 2019 10:12 AM

As part of a job lot of films I got recently I have a 6 x 400ft black and white Standard 8 full feature of BACK FROM ETERNITY.

I can find no mention of this film anywhere and wondered if anyone knows anything about who released it (it was an RKO studio movie)?

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Barry Attwood
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posted October 30, 2019 10:34 AM

Powell Films released that title together with a handful of other Universal titles.

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John Halfacre
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posted October 30, 2019 10:42 AM

Thanks Barry

Do you know if its particularly rare ? As I said I havenet been able to find any which have sold to get a rough guide of value

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Osi Osgood
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posted October 30, 2019 11:45 AM

It's GOT to be rare, being that I haven't even heard of it being released on Super 8 or standard 8.

If it's standard 8, i bet the picture is really great! Those standard 8mm features tend to look really good!

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John Halfacre
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posted October 30, 2019 03:09 PM

Thanks Osi

Yes picture is good, a few small lines but very watchable.

Bit of an unknown quantity so doing an ebay auction on it starting tomorrow. Will be interesting to see what it brings

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Dominique De Bast
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posted October 30, 2019 05:21 PM

A digest exists in super 8 : https://www.bd-cine.com/fiche.php?id=3066

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Barry Attwood
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posted October 31, 2019 02:02 AM

Any of the Powell Films Universal releases are rare, as he only had a small time window on the copyright at the time, although he did knock out standard and super 8 prints of each title, I believe his 2 best sellers from this deal was the Orson Welles classic "A Touch of Evil" and of all things the TV movie of "Munsters Go Home" which was a fun film for fans of the TV show.

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Osi Osgood
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posted October 31, 2019 11:30 AM

LOVE to find "Touch of Evil"!!!

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Barry Attwood
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posted November 01, 2019 01:55 AM

Osi,

Here on the U.K. ebay a standard 8 print of a "Touch of Evil" is going off today, but it's not cheap, especially for standard 8, here's the link.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8MM-FILM-TOUCH-OF-EVIL-ORSON-WELLES-5-X-400-B-W-FEATURE/202809009915?hash=item2f385be6fb:g:9DoAAOSwYZJdtcxt

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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posted November 01, 2019 04:35 AM

I have had this feature,in super 8, for ages. Those fifties RKO films had sometimes interesting all star casts,like this one and the Fritz Lang features.

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Barry Attwood
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posted November 05, 2019 12:50 AM

It's been re-listed, first down to £100, I looked this morning and now it's £90, perhaps in a few days it will come down to a more realistic price for a Standard 8 feature.

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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posted November 05, 2019 01:41 AM

Just a small correction,MUNSTER GO HOME was not a "tv movie" but an original theatrical feature in color,(the series was in b^w).This shows how popular the series was. The cheaper way would be to Join three episodes together and show them to the theaters."Tv movies" oficially started in 1966.

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Patrick Walsh
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posted November 05, 2019 07:14 PM

Ahh BACK FROM ETERNITY a great film, with the beautiful and very curvy Anita Ekberg [Big Grin]

I have it on 16mm and it is a great print, Yes MUNSTER GO HOME was a full feature in its own right and I believe it was a scope release, when the film came out down here in NZ it was a hit and the NZBC brought the rights to the TV series and it was well received as we did not have the TV series on at the time.

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