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Topic: Star Wars trilogy in super 8
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Baudime Jam
Film Handler
Posts: 50
From: France
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted January 26, 2013 10:25 AM
Hello
I am intending to sell my super 8 copies of the Star Wars trilogy (full features, not condensed), which is :
Star Wars - scope, colours, magnetic sound (Derann release)
French soundtrack, but original English scrolling titles
Empire - scope, colours, magnetic sound
original English soundtrack but German scrolling titles
Jedi - scope, colours, magnetic sound
Original English soundtrack and scrolling titles
I never projected them : I just tried the first minutes of each first reel.
The quality of image and sound is excellent : quite like new.
See screenshots links below.
Don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested, either in this forum, or through my email.
I have also many rare condensed versions (French, US, German, Italian), and trailers for each film of the original trilogy (including the rare Revenge of the Jedi).
Appart from Star Wars, I am also selling two superb super 8 copies of 2001 : A space odyssey, and First men in the moon. Both complete feature versions (not condensed). Both in scope, colours and in quite new condition. I only tried the begenning of the first reel of 2001, and First men in the moon was projected once only. Let me know if anyone is interested.
Thank you for your help !
With best regards from France
Baudime starwarsmagazines@online.fr
[ January 27, 2013, 09:24 AM: Message edited by: Baudime Jam ]
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Baudime Jam
Film Handler
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From: France
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted January 26, 2013 07:49 PM
Adrian
you are asking a very rational question !
In fact, as a collector of vintage Star Wars items, I have bought two copies of each feature films in super 8, and I am now selling the three spare prints I never projected because, well, priority in life have changed !
Here are a series of screenshots I just did one hour ago of the Star Wars trilogy super 8 prints I am selling.
As you will see, the image is just excellent : no reddish colors, no fade, and sharp sound.
Please note that I did not install the anamorphic lens which is the reason why the ratio is not correct.
I took the photos with my iphone which explains why the images are not sharp when spaceships or characters move too fast on screen.
Star Wars
Empire
Jedi
In the past 20 years, I never had the opportunity to see those three films on sale anywhere on internet. It won't happen before long !
And here are also screenshots for my prints of 2001 and First men in the moon :
2001
Moon
Both are for sale... (scope feature versions)
[ January 27, 2013, 06:30 AM: Message edited by: Baudime Jam ]
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Baudime Jam
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From: France
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posted January 27, 2013 04:21 AM
I was just observing that if you try to find the Star Wars trilogy full features in super 8 in excellent condition, either on ebay or other websites, you just won't find it easily in this excellent condition (no fade, no reddish colors, etc.), and the three at once :-)
Well... I keep my (very good) used prints, as I said before, and I am quite sure it won't take long before those three quite new spare prints will sell :-) They are History as they are the original versions of these classic movies, before Mr Lucas spoil them with "special editions"...
Han Solo shoot first !!! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Baudime Jam
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posted January 27, 2013 12:22 PM
answer to Vidar : in France, ebay offers two different options, either standard auctions (like on ebay.com), but also classified, which is free of any insertion and sale fee.
I choose this option, stating in the description that potential buyers shall email me with their offer. I sold many super 8 features that way. Unfortunately, this option does not exist on ebay.com. Maybe I should write the description in English because most of the buyers are not French at all !
After only three days online, I received quite a number of offers, some serious, but also some irrational : a French buyer offered me 75€ ($100) for the three films ! Well... I am just collecting offers and the highest will get them - even if I would prefer to sell the three prints to the same buyer in order to keep them together, which is why I will consider a combined offer with preference. You know how long it is sometimes to build a collection, and it is always sad to split it...
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Baudime Jam
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From: France
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posted February 01, 2013 06:38 AM
Hello folks,
just to let you know that the Star Wars trilogy just sold for 2250 euros ($3300) to a collector from Luxembourg.
Before that offer, I was offered 1800€ and 2000€, but also 120€ and 150€ (!!!) for the three films. Well... this was an interesting experience.
In a few days, I was contacted by a lot of potential buyer, each one having his/her own idea about the real value of these prints. But the real value of any item is the price that someone is ready to pay for it, not the average market value, especially if, like me, you are not a retailer. I had only one set of prints to sell, not a bunch of them, and still, I am sure that I could have sold them for a 3000 euros if I had devoted more time to this issue.
I would be very interested to further discuss the question of the "real value" because it raises a lot of important questions. For example, a pair of collectors argued that I was asking a too high price for my prints as it is possible to order new prints to CHC or Andec for a cheaper price (600 euros after them...).
First, I am not sure at all you can get a new print of each Star Wars films for that price. It should be confirmed and I wrote to these companies to know about it.
Second, you probably will get prints with German scrolling titles for Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, whereas the Derann prints have original English.
Third, a genuine Star Sars fan want the original and official super 8 releases, not bootlegs
Fourth, who knows if the quality will be the same ?
But mainly (fifth) if this is so easy and cheaper to get those films from laboratories, why trying to get my prints ? That's what I answered to these people. I don't mind if they want to get new prints, but I know that a serious Star Wars super-8 collector will pay the right price for such rarities, especially in this excellent condition.
Your opinion is welcome !
Now, I still have those trailers (including the rare Revenge of the Jedi), and also a series of condensed versions (from US, France, Germany and Italy) for sale : see below two of them (rare Star Wars condensed 2nd volume, and rare Empire 2nd volume).
[ February 01, 2013, 08:28 AM: Message edited by: Baudime Jam ]
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Michael Beyer
Expert Film Handler
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From: Bingen, Germany
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted February 05, 2013 07:05 AM
Well, congratulations for the sale.
To the german prints I can say, that they are all in best quality. My soundstripes have all a good quality, too.
I know some Derann-Prints that have a poor soundstripe (the black one).
BTW - Empire was/is a bootleg as a lot of other full features, too.
And if a bootleg made from a good negative, it is the same as the official.
F.e. Once upon a time in the west. It was officially released in flat by Marketing international und as bootleg in scope. And the bootleg-quality is stunning.
But you need to know the right persons to get in contact with the laboratories, because no one knows, if you can trust the contacting person or it is a spy from the studios.
You are right, that the "real value" is what you get for your prints, but I would never pay more than 400 Euros for a print (that's what I paid for Star Wars).
And if I don't get it for that price, I have to wait. Someday I will get a print of Empire... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Keep perforated
Michael
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Just remember the time when Home Cinema was not a disc...keep perforated
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