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Topic: What is the print that your REALLY looking for?
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted June 25, 2007 03:25 PM
I haven't recieved "For Your Eyes Only" yet, it's in the mail, but I have bought a number of times from this fella, and he has
never steered me wrong, so I can assume that the colour is just fine.
Concerning letterboxing and widescreen on optical sound super 8, there aren't too many letterboxed optical super prints, and those that are out there were made in the U.K. Two come to mind, both British releases, "Conduct Unbecoming" (good drama) and "Shout At The Devil" (Lee Marvin/Roger Moore) great action picture, which I'M STILL trying to find.
Though the U.K. optical sound airline features have lower sound output, (due to the way the optical tracks were coated), they have one up on the american releases, in that they had not only features, but a variety of TV shows, ("Department S", for instance.) and in all cases, the focus was impeccable! I have noticed that the U.K. airline features tended to have a better film stock as a heneral rule, as the 70's prints have tended to age very well. My prints of "Rising Damp" and "The 39 Steps"
have aged very well.
Which brings up a question, if films like "Rising Damp" a feature based on a U.K. classic comedy, (quite funny) I wonder if I might have a chance of finding "Are You Being served: the movie" on Super 8 optical? I'd be willing to bet that it was out there.
Barry, do you or anyone else in the U.K. happen to know?
Good heavens, this is becoming a monster post!
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Osi Osgood
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posted June 25, 2007 07:21 PM
Perhaps it's because, (at least over here, stateside) Rising Damp is literally unknown today, no doubt more well known in the U.K.
I would think that when these were released, the rights were automatically given, as, (at least in the case of the American film companies), these films were coming out right at the original release dates, (except in the somewhat rare case of a re-issue on optical sound).
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Osi Osgood
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posted June 27, 2007 09:18 AM
I forgot to mention, a film that I always thought would go well on super 8, (especially in scope!) would be,
"Twilight Zone: The Movie"
It was nicely divided into four stories. It would be perfect for Super 8 release as, each story would fit on one reel each, (4X600ft) and if a collector only liked one story,
"For instance, "The Thing on the Wing", they coould just buy that one reel.
Perfect ... eh?
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Osi Osgood
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posted June 03, 2014 11:51 AM
Unfortunately, your incredible luck has worked against you, Vidar ...
You've really lucked out on some incredibly low prices for some classic and usually expensive super 8 features, (was that 30.00 or so dollars you paid for Casablanca? wonderful!) ...
But that creates an expectation that you'll luck out at all times, sometimes, while you would love to find that print you mentioned at a bargain price, well, sometimes you'll just have to pay more for something that you really want ...
But hey, who knows, I might hear next week that you secured a print of that title for 20.00 bucks! You never know! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted June 06, 2014 11:31 AM
Sorry Ernie ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) (snicker) ...
... and while your at it Ernie, "Westworld" was released as a optical sound feature. The funny thing is that it was censored. One short scene, the prostitute robot scene in the upstairs hotel, was cut out, which is so danged strange, as there is, from memory, no nudity there!
The print runs a very full 4X400ft. Color is slightly off. The only really terrible thing about the print is that, for some odd reason, reels two and three have decent focus, while reel 1 and 4 have marginal focus, (especially reel 4 ... sheesh!!)
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