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Topic: WANTED: THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 02, 2012 09:11 AM
I'll wait to hear from you about that optical sound super 8 feature! It would be cool to actually see one! (Especially if you could shoot a few screenshots from a viewing!
Yep! I did that review a long time ago! The print that I did the review of I still have. I'd swear that it must be on some form of low fade stock, bt it's extremely hard to figure out what kind of stock an optical sound super 8 is printed on with some optical prints, as they have that dark purple "band" in the sprocket area, which is where, of course, you would find the film stock. my thinking is that it's FUJI, but I really don't know.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted September 02, 2012 03:58 PM
The film does exist on S/8 Optical,as I told Osi some months back, on Perry's list,I passed up on it because I've a nice copy on 16mm. The digests that Marketing released are a very good buy and are quite common,the 400' digest done by Ken Films does edit in, but the difference in quality is evident.I used this example at the time in a letter to Movie Maker mag. as I was tired of this mantra that the best prints were the USA Disney's,and the Foreign stuff didn't exist.Well I think I've since been proved right,some of the German films are still excellent,the only fault I could find with them would be the sometimes eratic editing and abrupt endings.Back on topic with "Land that Time Forgot",is the killer scene when what looks like a Tylosaurus,that becomes a plesiosaur sneaking up on the sub to be shot to death and land in a heap with it's teeth flying out over the deck! It would have been much better if Harryhausen or Danforth had done the animals, but Roger Dickens monsters are very good,far better than that atrocity "At the Earths Core" where it looked like the monsters were on castors.Where LTTF does score, is it has a good story,and a downbeat end, plus a very likeable cast. Oemer has a point with anyone seeking out a copy,is there could be one from Italy.
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 03, 2012 12:37 PM
That, and the first thrity minutes, before we even get to the Island is a pretty decent "Submarine" story!
Your right about "ATEC", as those monsters were truly atrocious! The only good moment is Peter Cushing yelling ...
"You can't mesmerize me! I'm British"
Bing! he's mesmerized!
The other decent McClure monster flick is Warlords of Atlantis, in which those monsters that climb the walls of the atlantian fortress are quite good and like nothing seen in the earlier films. That, and the two Giant Octopus attacks are quite well done. From what I understand, the octopus was borrowed from another production. Can't remember what it was, though.
DAMN! I wish I saw that "LTTF" on Perry's list!
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