8mm Forum: try to help a guy out....

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Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on January 30, 2011, 11:18 PM:

Ya know, I try to help a guy out last week, and when I leave, he hits me with spiders and snowballs!

Yep, good 'ol Roy boxes up Snowball Express and (1955) Tarantula and makes me take them when I leave! (and other titles) That is just plain rotten I tell ya! [Wink]

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on January 31, 2011, 01:30 AM:

Well done...Tarantula in one of my all time highest wants....I have a beautiful framed insert in my house.....What a guy.....The only thing worse would have been if he threw in a Black Scorpion [Razz]

Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on February 03, 2011, 12:15 AM:

Screening it right now Dino, it has maybe 10 or so splices per reel but none seemed to be jump splices. What a clean image & print. I'm running it through the film-o-clean and no new dirt lines are showing up on the cleaning media.

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on February 03, 2011, 08:18 AM:

I have a copies of both of those features on 16mm. I think I'll watch Snowball Express this weekend. A perfect movie for these horrible Winter conditions.

Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on February 04, 2011, 11:42 AM:

We haven't had snow in a few weeks, so I'm waiting for the next storm to show the kids Snowball Express [Big Grin]

Posted by Roy Neil (Member # 913) on February 13, 2011, 04:37 AM:

I only just now saw this post...and I am very sleep deprived so I hope my post is coherent, apologies in advance.

Trust me, the teeter-totter is still heavily weighted on Wayne's end .. and it's not because he eats too much.

I just mean that a few feet of film do not go very far to even the score, I have a lot more retaliation to perform.

And in case anyone out there doesn't already know - he helps a lot of people including the entire film community.

That's right, the whole community. The intermission films that are available - brand new - are not only great for collectors but also serve as a great means of preservation. The more people that own a print in a different location help to preserve that film for future generations. Now he is moving into fully licensed cartoons with Bambi Meets Godzilla and the new Lupo the Butcher prints - and you can even buy unlimited exhibition rights for a few bucks more. As a collector, I think it is amazing that new films are still being printed specifically for us, and that they are actually inexpensive.

Printing film is not a walk in the park, neither is securing rights and film elements and dealing with labs and all the other headaches. And believe me when I say, Wayne is not getting rich selling film.

I believe the entire community benefits from his efforts - so if anyone deserves thanks its Wayne.

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