8mm Forum: Looking for Optical Sound Prints

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Posted by Adam Deierling (Member # 2307) on May 20, 2014, 06:41 PM:

I am starting to collect optical sound features. Looking to see if anyone on here has any features for sale. Looking for low-fade prints from the 80s and newer. Action and sci-fi films mostly. But email me, you may have something I must own!

onedelorean@yahoo.com

Films I definitely want to find:
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
White Fang
Harry and the Hendersons
Home Alone
ET
Empire of the Sun
Jurassic Park
Back to the future
Gremlins
Crocodile Dundee

Not sure if any of these exist as optical features but worth a try.

[ May 20, 2014, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: Adam Deierling ]

Posted by Jason Gronn (Member # 3921) on May 20, 2014, 09:35 PM:

Hi Adam,
I haven't got any optical prints yet as the ones l have come across have been faded but l must get a couple to try all the same.
Anyway Paul Foster in the UK has some optical prints for sale including Crocodile Dundee if you look on his web site mate.

Posted by Raymond Glaser (Member # 1766) on May 20, 2014, 10:18 PM:

Hi Adam - I sent you two PM's

Ray

Posted by Kevin Hassall (Member # 2352) on May 21, 2014, 10:02 AM:

hi paul foster has some on his list and classic home cinema does too

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 21, 2014, 12:45 PM:

Adam ...

I'm pretty sure that "Jurrasic Park" and "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" were never printed as Super 8 optical sound.

The last year in the U.S. was 1987. A few 1988 releases, however, did make it onto super 8 optical sound as well. "Stand and Deliver" (which I have) is listed, depending on which movie reviewing book you look at, in either 87 or 88, so that's why I say 88 for the possible cut off year.

HOWEVER ...

I have heard rumored many years ago, that "The Hunt For Red October" was actually a super 8 optical sound feature, as Japan printed super 8 optical sound for a year or two longer, but bear in mind that this is just speculation.

From what I have been able to surmise, Super 8 optical sound first begain in 1967, as that is the earliest year that I have found a great number of releases (Jungle Book, Point Blank ect) on optical sound.

This doesn't include, however, those films that were popular before 1967 that were occasionally re-released and therefore, found they're way onto super 8 optical, such as "Never So Few" (re-released because of Steve McQueens popularity) and other classics.

However, super 8, even as a film gauge didn't come out until ...

folks, what was that first year for super 8 film stock?

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on May 21, 2014, 12:51 PM:

1965.

Posted by Adam Deierling (Member # 2307) on May 21, 2014, 01:54 PM:

Thanks Osi! That will narrow my search a bit. Doesn't do much good to hunt for films that don't exist! I know I can get them in Magnetic and even new from TRI, but frankly they are just too expensive. Even the used ones are sometimes just too much money...Not that they are not worth it, but more than I can afford sadly...

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 22, 2014, 11:55 AM:

Thanks Dominique! I thought it was somewhere around there! [Smile]

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