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Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 05, 2012, 02:38 PM:

How about this for a conversation starter.What are the most
watched fims in your collection,be it requests or your own
personal favourites, any guage, which brings in the 16mm & 9.5
boys.Then I'll kick it off; "ONE MILLION YEARS B.C." 16MM
"ZULU" 16MM 'Scope, "THE BLOOD DEMON"STD & S/8,
"MY NAME IS NOBODY" 16MM,"FISTFUL OF DOLLARS"s/8 & 16
""THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH"STD 8,"ENTER THE DRAGON"16MM
"THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE"16MM,"A TOUCH OF CLASS"S/8
"JASON & THE ARGONAUTS, S/8.Those are my fav's lads,what
about the rest of our Forum?

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on March 05, 2012, 02:41 PM:

Mine are:

"ONE MILLION YEARS B.C." 16MM
"ZULU" 16MM 'Scope, "THE BLOOD DEMON"STD & S/8,
"MY NAME IS NOBODY" 16MM,"FISTFUL OF DOLLARS"s/8 & 16
""THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH"STD 8,"ENTER THE DRAGON"16MM
"THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE"16MM,"A TOUCH OF CLASS"S/8
"JASON & THE ARGONAUTS, S/8

Just kidding!

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 05, 2012, 02:49 PM:

That was a helluva quick reply Pat,and I can't help but notice we
have similar taste.
ps did you manage to get "X the Unknown"?

Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on March 05, 2012, 03:18 PM:

Hi Hugh,

My favorites are:
Toccata for Toy Trains on 16mm short
Footlight Parade on 16mm feature
Star Wars 200' on Super 8 digest
A Trip to the Moon on Super 8 (A Blackhawk print with sound) short
The Lost World on Super 8 feature

I also have 35 Our Gang comedies so, theres always one of those a night, those are some I keep going back to.

The African Queen on Super 8 was another before Pat bought it from me. [Wink]

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 05, 2012, 03:42 PM:

Nice one Gerald,was that the feature of "Queen" or the digest?

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on March 05, 2012, 03:54 PM:

What about THE ROSE ...?

[Big Grin]

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 05, 2012, 04:06 PM:

What about it?

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on March 05, 2012, 04:08 PM:

Hugh, it's very cult movie for this forum.... [Wink]

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 05, 2012, 04:22 PM:

Surely Winbert, you must watch proper films sometime?

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on March 05, 2012, 04:37 PM:

My Karloffs:
THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG
THE BLACK ROOM
16mm
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My Blackhawk, Charley Chases
Super 8

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 05, 2012, 05:22 PM:

Way to go Michael,two great films from the "Master". The last time
I saw "The Black Room" was when Channel Four first started and
during the ad breaks,can you remember there were just gaps
with no ads! "The Man They Couldn't Hang" I last seen in the
seventies during a season of Karloffs pictures and I don't think
it's been on since,but it's got to be better than "The Rose"

Posted by Zechariah Sporre (Member # 2358) on March 05, 2012, 07:34 PM:

These are some of my favorites.
Do Detectives Think Reg 8mm L&H
Balloonatic Super 8 Keaton
The General Super 8 Keaton
Pot O' Gold Super 8 Sound Jimmy Stewart

Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on March 06, 2012, 07:26 AM:

A great question: I keep pulling out and running the first reel of The World is Not Enough..... First reel of There's no Business like Show Business--the scope and the TREMENDOUS STEREO sound ...just amazing. I seem to run Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the original The Thing a lot.
And the Walton scope digest of the Quiller Memorandum. Those are the ones that are run more than most.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 06, 2012, 09:24 AM:

A nice selection of classics from Zechariah "Balloonatic" is good fun
and thats a good point Gary because there are some films where
we run a favourite reel,I can understand "QUILLER" as it has a very nice main theme from John Barry and is one I frequently run
but not as much as the above.Now Winbert where are your films
theres got to be sometime you get to unspool your favourites
and we want to hear them..........even if it's "The Rose".

Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on March 06, 2012, 11:04 PM:

Hugh,

That would be the African Queen feature, I've never seen the cut-downs. I also had most of it on 16mm, some beautiful color on that print and sold it as well. I hope to find it again sometime. I sort of miss both prints but, they have made it into new homes now -- can't cry for all of those that I've watched then, let go...I'd still be crying.

I really liked 'The Rose' digest, the music in it is very good. Which reminds me, I wish there was a cut-down for 'Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park', I'd probably watch that every day if it were available. I also have The Rocky Horror Picture Show 400', which you'd think would get a lot of play at home but, I'm trying to preserve it for special occasions. SPOILER ALERT: I do run the 2 x 400' of 'Fame' from MGM often which, has a scenes with the kids at a RHPS screening, where they smoke a joint and loose their "inhibition".
[Cool]

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on March 07, 2012, 05:35 AM:

Hugh you do ask some difficult questions.
I guess it will have to be one of my early purchases from Derann Films oh so many years ago titled ‘Ukelele Man’ which I still love and have to this day. Printed on acetate film stock I still run it and it holds oh so many memories for me for lots of reasons. Within my own collection it will hold the record for me as being the most screened, over something like 38 years of owning it and travelling up and down the country way back then to screen it within a programme of films featuring its star to fans. In short this little film is very precious to me as are the memories.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 07, 2012, 06:50 AM:

Well theres a mixed bag of titles,I meant to say at the start at
least ten of your favs so you can always add to it.I do believe
Gerald that the digest of "African Queen" was very good and with
good print,they do say Deranns 4x600 was the best but I've
still got my old Viacom feature and it will do me.
Now I'm sure there must be more than George Formby's
little clip Lee that gets hammered,I'll wager theres a feature or two of the great man you put on as well,so let us know.

Posted by Greg Marshall (Member # 1268) on March 07, 2012, 10:07 AM:

Features I run pretty often are 'GREASE' Scope/Stereo; 'SHOW BOAT'; 'SINGIN' IN THE RAIN'. Run quite a few toons and trailers when I'm putting a program together as well.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 11, 2012, 08:56 PM:

Some great titles there Greg, and I would have been shocked if
they were films without music from Nashville,Rock on.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on March 13, 2012, 12:47 PM:

Believe it or not, the film that is the most watched in my house is ....

(drum roll)

Warlords of Atlantis! (4X400ft)

and it is scratched to hell to prove it!

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 13, 2012, 05:25 PM:

Do you know Osi,that little film comes in for a lot of stick from the
critics, I too have a beat up copy bought ex-library and a nice
one on 16mm and I find it thoroughly entertaining and on a par
with "The Land That Time Forgot".It's interesting that the great
novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs "John Carter of Mars" have been
made into a movie,and I'm praying that the spirit of Burroughs
stories is kept and not turned into a video game type of film.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on March 14, 2012, 12:45 PM:

That must be awesome having a 16MM print of "Warlords of Atlantis"! Is it the full feature?

The super 8 version is about 70 minutes long, and a decent cut down with all the monster action, (yay!).

I rate it up there as an equal with "The Land That Time Forgot". One of the big plus's of "Warlords" is that the monsters have a very unrelated to nature kind of look to them, which makes them appear less "Hokey". A great example is those two monsters that climb the wall of the castle. A very good design! Also, the water creature that lifts itself out some when they arrive, as well as taking a shot at our hero's on the way out.

... and the octopus is very well done. I understand that it was actually used for some other film, and they didn't have to build it. Some fake octopu's really have that fake look, and this one was pretty darned good.

By the way, I also have "People That Time Forgot" optical feature, beautiful print and letterboxed to boot! I know that "Land That Time Forgot" was supposed to exist as well as an optical super 8, but I have never ran into one as of yet, but I'd love to!

Now, the only one of those four features that I nearly detest is "At the Earth's Core", where the monsters are sadly in league with japanese Godzillas "men in rubber suits" monsters! Deplorable. The only saving grace for that film is Peter Cushing's line ...

"You can't hypnotize me ... I'm British!"

(and of course, he is immediately hypnotized!)

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 14, 2012, 07:39 PM:

"Warlords"is a nice print Osi, as is "Land " and you are right about
the creature that erupts from the water,I think the "flying fish"
were a bit OTT, but that aside it makes a good evenings
entertainment."At the Earths Core" to my mind was a travesty
and ruined a great series of stories from Edgar Rice Burroughs
who is one of America's greatest authors,and I'm keeping my
fingers crossed that they don't do the same to "John Carter."
Incidentaly I have seen an opt print of "Land that time Forgot"
on a Perry's list,which I would've got but there wasn't much
point as it's here on 16mm,The print on your "People Time Forgot" I understand to be excellent.I'll ask Ian about "Land"
as sometimes he doesn't list everything and the word on the street is s/8 opt nobody wants them because they can't replay
them (figure that one out)so there might be a chance it's
lying about in his store.

Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on March 15, 2012, 02:39 PM:

Airplane!
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