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Andrew Woodcock
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From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted June 21, 2016 07:24 PM
Yep fair enough Alan, if you've found one that looks like the cheaper of the two there, you have a Beauty my friend!! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
So far, i've never seen one as good though, they all tend to look like the more expensive one featured there, a little blue as often can be the case with the later Derann stuff.
Find me a "warm" one..I'm in! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Adrian here, as ever, makes some superb observations here regarding all of this;
Irrespective of whether the pics of the $500 print are fully representative of the look of the actual copy, they look so offputting that the seller is extremely lucky to get the amount he wanted. I think that prints with that excessively bluish look are probably more common from around the late 1990s onwards, as the lab seemed to become more inconsistent. I got my 'Aliens' within about a year of it being released and I'd say the colour is a bit 'cool' but it's a great print. However, I recall seeing another one soon afterwards that was too 'warm' for my liking, so even around 1988 there could be big variations between batches.
With regard to Winbert's question: "How many Derann titles you know that have so many obvious diversity on print quality?", I think the question should be: "Do you know of Derann titles where there's evidence that there's very little diversity in quality?" I suspect that diversity tends to be the norm, apart from perhaps cases where the negative quickly become damaged and there were only one or two batches of prints. I know that Disney placed great emphasis on quality control, so it could be that the lab was leaned upon to achieve greater consistencey with these.
[ June 22, 2016, 07:39 AM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted June 22, 2016 12:08 PM
I definitely agree with you on that Andrew, excpet for the one exception of Fantasia 2000, (I think all of the prints of that were fairly bluish, which didn't help in that the film itself had a slightly bluish color to begin with) ...
In that, I was truly astounded as to just HOW GOOD a susper 8 print, made from excellent source material, could look. The Derann Disney's were truly as good as a good 16MM print, and that is my personal opinion.
Hey, that is the comparison that i was talking about, thanks for posting that. The two prints, side by side, are like night and day, to be sure.
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and with sound sync issues, crappy screen shots, and not knowing if it's one of those "too blue" prints to boot! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
You can keep it! ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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