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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted September 06, 2009 03:40 PM
On Wednesday, we saw Yanis Tzortzis' copies of THE WIZARD OF OZ,Larry Semon's justly booed feature, and Griffith's HEART'S OF THE WORLD with the Gish sisters in a wonderful Blackhawk print.
On Thursday, I watched THE STARS LOOK DOWN, a P.M. print of average quality but, a wonderful film. Also, WITH THE ENEMY'S HELP ,a 1912 Griffith Biograph and a pristine Breakspear print.
On Friday, Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon in THE SULTAN'S WIFE (Sennett 1917) and Ben Turpin in THE EYES HAVE IT (Weiss Bros 1929).Two average two reelers,not the best of either star,but exellent Blackhawk copies.All films on super 8.
Saturday night,at a friend's open-air cinema,we were treated to a series of Nazi newsreels on super 8,courtesy of historic film collector Y.T. (!) and concluded with LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR HULOT on 35 mm. I can say it was a full week !!!!
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Peter van Zand
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From: Amsterdam, Netherlands
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posted September 08, 2009 03:54 PM
First the Castle digest of Wolfman on my new Sankyo with 1.0 lens, followed by some trailers (Tomb raider, Hannibal). The picture quality with this lens is simply amazing.
Then the first reel of 16mm Pane, Amore e Fantasia, a classic Italian comedy that made a star of Gina Lollobrigida, on the Bauer P7. Lollobrigida and Angelina Jolie in one show, what a night ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Michael Beyer
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From: Bingen, Germany
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posted September 10, 2009 01:38 AM
Oemer:
Yes, Dean Martin is still great in Rio Bravo, but Walter Brennan, too.
It's one of my favourites of John Wayne. I like the song "Cindy".
And the copy is absolutely good. We had a lot of fun to see it on the big screen with a picture of 1,60 x 1,20 m.
At Friday we screened Titanic once again. This copy is really stunning. I hope that my copy of Star Wars Episode IV (Derann release) arrives today. If not, I will see Terminator 2.
The picture of Scope-Copies is 2,34 x 0,90 m at home...
Keep perforated,
Michael
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Chip Gelmini
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From: Brooksville, FL
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posted September 10, 2009 10:15 AM
Wednesday Night September 9, 2009 @ 9:10
DVD projection - my first one since July 20th (It's been super 8 since then!)
Disney Nature first release
EARTH
Production assistance by the BBC Planet Earth series.
I raved about this movie when I saw it last April in wide release. Couldn't wait for the DVD release. And, Disney has struck gold again.
The mastering of this disc is absolutely stunning. They've done EVERYTHING right. There's six or seven trailers on the front, all beautifully hard matted or letter-boxed. I didn't even see the copyright logo, probably at the very end following the end credits. I never even saw it, because I went back to the menu before it came on. But it's not on the beginning, which is also very good.
When the disc loaded in the player, it went right to the first trailer. I pressed STOP to go to the menu for scene selection and it worked. On many older discs by Disney, the player brings up a message that it can't do it. You are stuck watching copyrights and other garbage for about 15-20 seconds before you can navigate.
This was great to see that Disney has followed other movie companies by releasing a disc that YOU can control from the very start.
For those who like movies about the planet, this movie and the disc mastering is A+++++++
Hard matting is important in my setup as I have restricted screen size and I am over the projector's rating for distance throw. In my setup, I can not run full frame DVD with the Panny AX200U or this is too much spillage over the top and bottom of the screen frame. For this reason and in stores shopping, I never ever buy 1:33 DVD's. I could watch them on standard TV. But to me, that's not the way to watch a movie, now is it?
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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted September 10, 2009 04:24 PM
Monday, at another friend's house,an all Greek 16 mm show.Greek newsreels, from the early sixties,showing the then king Paul and queen Frederica visiting London and from the early seventies,the junta period,the attempt to kill dictator Papadopoulos.A 1960 documentary on the Corinth canal,( english director,french technicians and german narration!) and a Combat episode with Telly Savalas as a Greek commander feasting and dancing before the big battle,like the ancient Spartans.
On Tuesday,my newest acquisitions, Chaplin's PAY DAY,unfortunately a not very sharp dupe of an original RBC, and personal favorite Charley Chase in ANOTHER WILD IDEA,a washed out print, worse of the three Derann released ones.Flip the Frog in THE MUSIC LESSON, one of the wackiest ones,Tom and Jerry in THE FLYING SORCERESS,in cinemascope,an excellent print of a later T& J drawn in the simpler later fifties style,plus two one reel Sennett cutdowns on std 8 ,Ben Turpin in A BLONDE'S REVENGE and Jack Cooper in TAXI DOLL, both exellent prints.
Wednesday,more of Yanis' prints.Eisenstein's ALEXANDER NEVSKY,plus a documentary on HITLER'S RISE TO POWER.We hope to have still another show by the end of the week !
Dino,regarding WITH THE ENEMY'S HELP.Truth is ,I first consulted THE GRIFFITH PROJECT,Pordenone's indispensable multi-volume guide,and it wasn't there.I thought it was perhaps an omission (!!!) as everybody in the past,from FILMS IN REVIEW to Richard Braff, to Lundquist and Lauritzen, to Gerald McKee listed it as a Griffith film.Finally,today,I looked at the imdb and it mentions Wilfred Lukas as director, so he is the one ! The film is very similar to the Griffiths of the period,down to the familiar actors.
Steve, THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT is an exellent Ealing comedy and is unfortunate that Derann edited it down to one hour,instead of issuing a complete print.
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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted September 11, 2009 02:31 PM
Dino
I don't have lots of money. I would,perhaps, if I had another hobby for the last 40 or so,years! Since my hobby is "film history",films go along with film literature.So, in addition to my big film collection,I have a big filmbook and magazine collection,which I am also very proud of, that includes complete, or near complete runs of Films in Review, Films and Filming, Classic Film Collector/Classic Images and quite a few others plus the AFI catalogues.Most of the Griffith volumes,I bought from La Cineteca del Friuli,one each year and a few from the B&B at Ealing. One limit I set for myself was to stick to 8 mm. No 16 or 35. Of course when cheaper forms of collecting appeared,(video and dvd)I embraced them,but my main "thing" is 8 mm.
You must project GREED at 24 fps as 18 fps is too slow.
I don't "hate" Larry Semon's WIZARD OF OZ. He tried for something different and failed.In addition to not having many traditional "semonisms",it is uninteresting as an Oz adaptation. I have read about SPUDS,but haven't seen it.I don't think it has been shown outside of film festivals.
On yesterday's post I made a mistake.The Chaplin film I got,is SUNNYSIDE and not PAY DAY.
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Dino Everette
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From: Long Beach, CA USA
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posted September 11, 2009 04:34 PM
Panayotis
I was sort of kidding about the Griffith project books, but didn't want to say I was jealous/envious since I say that alot on here....But those are one of the few collections I have not picked up yet since I can't find them in a good price range....But believe me I have far too many books on film/silent film..I keep most of them on a cool online catalog called library thing One day I hope to have the Griffith books....I have lots of the mags as well, but I focus on the film collector ones, like I have most of the Group 9.5 mags going back into the 1960's, and flickers ,etc....I'm sure you have those as well....The one other thing I have is thousands of silent era newspaper clippings since they have lots of good info... Basically anything silent film related I find myself interested in... So if there are ever other films you need info on let me know and I can check my stuff to see if I have anything. Oh and I'll have to double chec kthe speed for GREED since maybe I have it on 24fps because it looks totally fluid, never too fast or too slow....
Michael - Unlike Panayotis, I foolishly have everything from 8 - 35mm Nitrate silent film stuff - I think mainly because I work at the archive and can properly store the bigger stuff...I also have around 40 projectors,,haha...My poor poor wife who puts up with me......I think few others would allows projectrs by the bed in case I need a fix... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) On 16mm I usually pick up the classics like WINGS, and SUNRISE, BIRTH, etc, but also obscure stuff that I find from time to time on old kodascope prints, the problem is now the silent stuff seems to go for ridiculous amounts of money on 16mm cuz people all seem to release them on DVD on their own little labels...Which is a drag for us that want to watch the films themselves....
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