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Topic: WTB Ghostbusters airline version
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 27, 2018 11:43 AM
Hello Ben ...
I have not specifically seen this optical feature (and it has been YEARS since I'ver seen one offered), but almost all the optical sound features were edited to a greater or lesser extent, especially if the original run-time was 120 minutes or longer (as the cartridges that would play in the super 8 optical sound airline projectors had to be less than two hours) ...
... and, being that the providers of these features knew that any number of people could be watching these, (kids included), usually, scenes with excessive foul language and obviously, nudity, would be cut out.
Now, being that "Ghostbusters' had no nudity and only occasional cussing, much of what would have been edited out, would be this or that scene, perhaps Dan Ackroyd being "pleasured" by a ghost, for instance ...
In some cases, being that TV versions were being made for future use, often super 8 optical features would simply be TV versions for the ailines.
However, this isn't always the case, as I have "Sudden Impact" and that all of Clint Eastwoods cussing intact, so, you really never know hat you'll get, though it's nice to own some of these film on super 8, thanks to the airline features.
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 28, 2018 11:46 AM
By the mid 1980's the image quality was absolutely SUPERB on the optical sound super 8's. The ONLY exception to the rule that i have ever found was "Tender Mercies" which, while it was thankfully saved on low fade film stock, does have a grainy, slightly hard to focus nature to it.
The 1980's super 8 opticals were so sharp that, (yes, i have told this story before), i had a 16MM collector over one day, and I idn't tell him that I was showing a super 8 optical print of a film (Broadway Danny Rose), and he said, "Finally, you're switching to 16MM!", and then I had the good pleasure of showing him the film is super 8 optical. he did a lot of double takes looking at the image and back to the film reels! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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