8mm Forum: REMO Williams on ebay, (lowered Buy it Now price)

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Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on November 07, 2012, 12:14 PM:

Hey folks, in case anybody is interested, I lowered the buy it now price on REMO ... here's the link ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321018830627?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

All the best

OSI

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on November 08, 2012, 12:39 AM:

Osi
I love this film but aren't all of the optical prints edited like TV prints?

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on November 08, 2012, 12:30 PM:

Not all films were edited. Most were for language, (for instance, this one's edit is language), but REMO runs nearly a full two hours, filling 4X600ft quite nicely. This one is my "duplicate" print I have and has the same great color.

If an optical super 8 print was "R" rated, nudity and such would be edited, but that varied a lot by country. I once had a classic French sex comedy from the early 70's in my collection and upon first view, I was surprised to see a lovely young french girl completely in the nip swiming in a pool ...

... so a lot depended on content and country.

Every once in awhile, it just came down to running time. I was sad to see in my prinjt of "Superman 3" that the one scene that they chose to cut out was the complete scene in the bowling alley, (Superman uses his super breathe to get a strike, and anaillate the pins in the process). There was nothing offensive at all in the scne cussing or otherwise. It was just edited to allow it to fit into the less than two hour running time.

... However, sometimes the optical features allow for unintentional, wonderful surprises!

At the very end of the optical feature "Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan", the last shot is a lovely panorama of the Jungle, (and fortunately, my print is LPP!), and that panorama was actually (in large part) a matte painting ...

well, in the very top edge of the frame, you can actually see the edge of the painting AND the pegs holding it in place to do that last shot! Aopparantly, when making this print, they took the original full frame of the 35MM original filming, (this was not a cinemascope release from what I remember) and didn't adjust the image in any way, so you get to see something that will not be seen in any DVD copy, letterbox or otherwise, (I know, as i once had a full frame version of this on video.

REMO is a fine print, and the edit of cussing doesn't harm the film in any real way. Thanks for your question,Dino!

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