8mm Forum: Wanted: "The Life and TImes of Grizzly Adams" 1974 optical sound

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Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 24, 2016, 11:35 AM:

Yep!! Must continue to list this legendary "want" of mine.

You, there is a part of me that will be sad when I actually find this ............

NAWWWWW! [Smile]

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on August 25, 2016, 10:40 AM:

Persistence and determination equals success!

Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on August 25, 2016, 01:13 PM:

Absence makes the heart grow fungus.
[Smile]

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on August 25, 2016, 03:24 PM:

I'll get #7 to look for it

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 25, 2016, 08:46 PM:

Osi,

If you ever get this print in the condition you want it in, please offer it up as Friday Night Feature at CineSea, bring it and share it with us.

I'd not only vote for it, I'd campaign for it!

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on August 26, 2016, 04:45 AM:

And I will fly over on Concorde to watch it with y'all! [Big Grin]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 26, 2016, 12:04 PM:

It will happen, I know it will someday, and probably at the moment unexpected moment.

There is a series of posts on film vs. digital, and I think that this kind of an obsession on my part is a paerfect example of the wide gulf between digital collectors and cine collectors, as they would NEVER understand as to why we would be so obsessive about a 42 year old super 8 optical sound print.

Mathew ... very funny! [Smile]

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on August 26, 2016, 01:58 PM:

I bought a S8 optical Adams from Dave Thomas Films in 1983, now I forgot to whom I sold or traded it to, back then - Realized I couldn't even run it, having a magnetic track on my EUMIG -

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 27, 2016, 12:09 PM:

Dave thmoas films used to be a GREAT place to get optical sound super 8 features and the neat thing was, there were some on his lists that i have NEVER seen since! One was, "The last Unicorn" (anmated feature from 1983), as well as "High Road To China", but he has long sicne left the selling of these behind.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 27, 2016, 01:38 PM:

Comes the day you get it, what will you do?

Would you put on a show for your friends or just enjoy it by yourself? I can't imagine you haven't thought beyond just getting it.

I've seen this movie and I liked it a lot. (I'm kind of big on wilderness adventure). Was it ever printed with magnetic sound?

What always strikes me odd with this title is how hard it is to find, but "When the North Wind Blows", a much more obscure movie made by the same people at roughly the same time, is actually pretty common.

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on August 27, 2016, 05:02 PM:

That is a film I would like to see again, North Wind Blows - Big Steve, be sure you bring a railroad (diesel) film, okay I'll take steam as well - I'll dig one up too - Shorty

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 27, 2016, 05:24 PM:

I have a pretty serviceable "North Wind Blows" print that looks just fine with a little fade compensation. It's one of my many "favorite films"!

Review

Current railroad film plan for CineSea Saturday Night is actually Electric Traction: The Elephant Will Never Forget (The last day of operation of the London Trams.)

-Good general audience film: it has music, it has human interest, it has history. it has beautiful black and white cinematography...and just a smidge of classic rail travel!

Meanwhile: Osi is still looking for "Grizzly"!

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 29, 2016, 11:48 AM:

I HAVE thought about that, and I would have a nice outdoor film show, (well it IS an outdoors film ... hyuk yuk!), complete with very large screen, (super 8 optical prints look good as a general rule projected large), as well as popcorn, rare short subjects and rare cartoons.

Unless it is in the middle of winter, and it's 10 below zero (don't want bad things to happen to the projector, after all, let along my audience!)

Steve, I don't know if the fellow still has it, (he has frequented this website in the past), but a fellow was attempting to sell an Agfa low fade print of "When the North Wind Blows" on ebay. it still comes up occasionally, so watch for it. Heck, you've probably seen it. [Smile]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 29, 2016, 06:06 PM:

I think there was a "North Wind Blows" in Europe that was actually slightly cut down. I let that one pass.

Mine is full feature length, and the sound is good, it just looks a lot better with those filters in the beam.

It's basically the same story: the hero accidentally kills someone and fears being punished for murder, so he escapes to the wilderness, befriends an immense predatory mammal and finds himself at home there.

Dan Haggerty is in both, it's just in "Grizzly" he takes the part played by Henry Brandon in "North Wind". The American West also takes over the part played by Czarist Siberia (actually, Alberta was originally cast as Siberia),

I have the week between Christmas and New Years off and my tradition is North Wind a reel (or maybe two) per night. A couple of years ago my job literally sent me to Siberia (when I say this, a lot of people think I'm making some kind of metaphor: "What did you DO?!!") and I watched "North Wind" the week before to psyche myself for my glorious ten days in Novosibirsk!

-Nothing like spending the 4th of July in a city named by Stalin!

Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on September 05, 2016, 05:30 PM:

Copy for sale! ( But pink.)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Life-Times-Of-Grizzly-Adams-Super-8-Film-/282160565132?hash=item41b2148b8c:g:HVIAAOSwMgdXyyCe

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on September 05, 2016, 06:38 PM:

Snap!

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 06, 2016, 11:47 AM:

I saw that just now (with just two hours left to go, as, it was a holiday yesterday and no internet available), but I really can't tell by his screenshots. it looks like it might be a print that was owned by Keith Ashfield awhile back.

The problem with screenshots, is that quite often they will make a film with any fade or no fade at all) look worse than they actually are. I took screenshots of my low fade CE3K 1977 version scope, and the screenshots made it look all redded out, so i really can't tell by shots "grizzly" shots.

Bear in mind, i don't think that I'll ever find a pristien color print, as i get the feeling that this film never actually had perfect pristine color. I've noticed on my own print of "Grizzly", that the color actually gets a tad bit better by the second half of the print, and that some portions of the film have noticeably better color than others. The leader and beginning titles at the beginning of every print I have seen are more red, than the leder at the end of the print with the end credits ...

So, I do hope to find an, at least better print than what i have, and I'm sure that i will ... someday.

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on September 06, 2016, 06:47 PM:

I decided to bid on this film mentioned above as I have a Elmo Super 8mm magnetic / optical with no optical films.

Life & Times Of Grizzly Adams Super 8 Film.
3 x 600' Optical Sound feature.

I thought I needed at least one film [Smile]

I won it for 25 pounds plus postage.
I will let you all know what the condition etc of the print is when I screen it.

Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on September 07, 2016, 08:06 AM:

Nice Job Clinton. A great deal even if faded a bit!Throw a cyan filter in front and you'll be golden!
Glad a forum member got it. I would love this film too, in mag stripe only for me though.
If it does end up having nice colour, I am sure Osi will want it .... for 500$ now ha ha, just kidding Osi!!!

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 07, 2016, 12:20 PM:

I wouldn't mind seeing screenshots from it myself, even if it is in better condition than my print, at which point, I'll begin to kick myself in the arse!

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on September 18, 2016, 12:47 AM:

It's arrived ... 3 full 600ft reels ... I will post screen shots when I get a chance to have a sneak preview

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 19, 2016, 11:25 AM:

I look forward to it! [Big Grin]

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