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Topic: I have Casablanca, Bringing Up Baby Plus 2 Optical Sound Features On Ebay
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted May 06, 2012 06:04 PM
I can vouch for the excellence of image on Broadway Danny Rose. It is truly the sharpest super 8 print that I have ever ran into .... ever, and that is even in cluding Derann's output, and that is sayin a lot!
I had a friend that kept on trying to get me into 16MM ...
"You have just GOT to move into 16Mmand leave super 8 behind you"
... was the constant refrain!
I decided to mess with him. I had a little projection room set up back then, and I decided to fool him, saying I had a suprise for him. I projected "Danny" for him and he tuyrned back to loom at a smirkingOSI and saying, "You see?! I knew you'd come around!"
He was flabberghasted to find out that it was super 8 optical sound!
One of the finest examples in the film is a very deep focus shot looking down a high ceiling hote hallway (or lobby) late in the film. The image is so pin sharp that you can actually make out the actoprs clearly , even when they are at they're smallest in the image, way down the hall.
Pick up that film and you will be surprised as to just how sharp it is!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 08, 2012 08:46 AM
I don't think it was a matter of not caring about the prints, as the image quality on most of them (especially during the 80's) are pin sharp and they tended to use the absolute best negs, probably 35MM or at least a 16Mm taken directly from 35MM sources.
Now, when it comes to the film stock, they probably just used what was availalble at a bargain price, but then, sadly, most super 8 companies were more than capable of doing so. The best exceptions were companies like Derann that, once low fade stocks became available, they went with them at the first chance, and are'nt we lucky that they did?!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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