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Winbert Hutahaean
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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 29, 2006 03:05 AM

I just received a bunch of 200 and 400" Disneys from UK. When I received them, I straight searched the tag on the edge of their cardbox.

What I found that all were writeen "printed in USA". Having known this I was so sure that they were made in USA and much likely their color would have faded.

But to my surprise that on each leader it was written "Bucks Lab UK" where one reel was on Kodak LPP while other were AGFA and Fuji.

You may have known that color will be good and they were!.

So...a simple question, why the boxes were written "printed in USA". Are all Disney's boxes in UK like this or I was just the lucky one?

cheers,

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Winbert

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Chester Brooks
Film Handler

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From: USA
Registered: Apr 2006

posted May 29, 2006 03:52 AM

Are they in the photo boxes Disney used to supply or white boxes?

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted May 29, 2006 04:54 AM

They are in photo boxes (art works). And the tags are found on the botom corner at each box.

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Chester Brooks
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From: USA
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posted May 29, 2006 05:55 AM

Maybe a collector has switched films keeping the colour boxes but replacing them with Derann prints

Chester

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Kevin Faulkner
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From: Essex UK
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 29, 2006 05:55 AM

I think they were all like that. The box artworks for the ones I have all say USA on them so I can only think that Disney in the UK used the same boxes. Probably cheaper for them to do that than have new artwork etc done in the UK.

Yes most of Bucks Labs prints were on the LPP or Fuji stocks with the very late prints being on Agfa. So fade tends to be less of a problem for the UK Disney prints.

Kev.

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