8mm Forum: Wanted : Wallace & Gromit-A grand day out

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Posted by Alex Garcia (Member # 4080) on December 27, 2013, 09:22 AM:

I've been a long time looking for this title edited by Derann. Does anyone have this copy to sell? , I am very interested in purchasing this title ...

Thanks!

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 27, 2013, 12:29 PM:

That may be a hard find. It was released but only a few prints made as, from what I understand, they almost immediately had an insurmountable problem with the negative, (ex Derann employees could potentially make that clear), but the prints that made it were top notch!

Posted by Graham Sinden (Member # 431) on December 27, 2013, 03:36 PM:

Hi Osi,

The reason for the low prints is the BBC got involved!!!

Graham S

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 27, 2013, 03:41 PM:

I really doubt there are as many as 20 prints total. There were two test prints and a run of six. After that it's anybody's guess: all theory and rumor. It did show up a few times on the Derann used lists back in the day.

So strange: a few years ago there was one on E-bay. I thought as rare as it was there would be a battle for it and I stood back to watch. The first time it didn't even make it up to the reserve price. The second time it sold barely above the original retail price it sold for before the run was canceled and it became rare.

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on December 27, 2013, 06:17 PM:

There were a few more prints about than at first expected, a few more did sneak out.

The first run of things were usually 30, so I`d guess maybe 20-30. A few did pop up for a while but they are real keepers.

Its such a shame it did`nt work out as they would of sold stacks of all 3 made up until then I`m sure.

We have the 4, 1/2 hour ones, 3 on one dvd, the 4th single on dvd. You can get the 4 on one Blu Ray but I held off as sometimes BR just highlights imperfections and the dvd prints look lovely on the TV or VP.

Hope you find a real print.

Best Mark.

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on December 27, 2013, 08:15 PM:

As Mark has hinted, there appear to be a few more in circulation than might be imagined. There was talk of a few prints with a very slight 'fault' that meant that anyone buying one needed to remove a few black frames. It would be interesting to know if anyone had one of these. Some time after it was withdrawn, I bought one off a Derann used films list and - amazingly - it looked just like a brand new, never projected print!

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 27, 2013, 08:21 PM:

It's true. For a rare and highly desirable print it was very active on the used lists: two, maybe three times that I noticed, and selling for the price as new too.

There may even be ultra rare test prints of "The Wrong Trousers" and perhaps "A Close Shave" in existence because Derann was getting ready to release all three when everything came to a stop.

"The Wrong Trousers" would have been worth it for the model railway chase scene alone!

Posted by Patrick McGrath (Member # 1210) on December 28, 2013, 01:53 PM:

I got a print off Ebay for a buy-it-now price a few years ago.
My son and I are big fans so we run this a lot.
There is a light scratch throughout but doesn't appear on screen if you filmguard before projection. Otherwise a beautiful print.
Since my film collection is mostly low budget stuff, it's nice to have at least one desirable title!

Posted by Graham Sinden (Member # 431) on December 28, 2013, 02:05 PM:

It has been said that Derann got a very big telling off from the large media orginisation already mentioned, but Derann were allowed to keep/sell any remaining prints. Not sure exactly what happened but it dosent look like any prints were confiscated or destroyed.

Adrian,
I remember a number of years ago at a BFCC the Derann stall had a copy for £60 but it had a lab splice in it so I left it. Later that day it was gone so someone had bought it.

Some time later I also saw a copy for about £60 on Derann's used list. I was very surprised it had'nt gone already and I bought it. When it arrived it too was like a brand new film never projected. Even the box and sticker was new. Now it's quite possible that we both bought from the same used list and mabye Derann had several brand new copies left to sell. By placing them on the 'Used Film' list they could be classed as second hand even though they clearly were not, and escaping any further trouble.

Ive often felt there mabye is upto 50 copies around as this title is not as rare as we originally thought, but I havent seen any copies for sale for quite a while so its getting harder to find.

Graham S

Posted by Maurizio Di Cintio (Member # 144) on December 28, 2013, 06:38 PM:

I have one and it's really an excellent print: pin sharp with stunning colours. Only drawback: the paste stripe is the darker one, giwing not very goog performance (low output and dropouts throughout). But I can screen it with the sound from an external source... Good luck searching!

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on December 29, 2013, 07:01 PM:

quote:
they could be classed as second hand even though they clearly were not, and escaping any further trouble.

This may be out of topic, but the law does not say so.... [Wink]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 29, 2013, 08:22 PM:

Very often the bottom line in Law is "Prove it".

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on December 30, 2013, 02:36 AM:

You cannot sell a greyhound bus through second hand listing, if you are not a greyhound owner or at least greyhound employees. So no need to "prove it", it's clear you don't own it....if you know what I mean [Big Grin]

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