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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted October 08, 2009 11:03 PM
Yes Steve, a very well made thriller, with Lee Marvin as the Amewrican abroad, and his last great role before he died.
The optical super 8 feature print is truly pin sharp and a credit to those who ran the film labs!
The only problem is that, from what I have gathered over time, all the prints of this were made on the terrible fade eastman of the early 80's (shortly before it was completely phased out for Kodak SP and the new stock of the time which was called L.P.P.
All prints of this I have run across look about the same, color but pinky.
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Paul Spinks
Master Film Handler
Posts: 453
From: Barking, Essex, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted October 09, 2009 07:41 AM
Last night was a sort of pre-halloween evening, all on Super 8. We started with "The Mummy Strikes" one of the excellent Superman cartoons from Paramount from the 1940's. This was a Niles release with good colour. As the professor recounts the history of the Mummy to Clark Kent with the tomb heiroglyphs the background music is one of the themes from "Popeye Meets Ali Baba". This was followed by "Assault". This was a very adult film dealing with a serial rapist and killer of young girls in the woods close to a private school. It was produced by Peter Rogers, more famous as the producer of the "Carry On" movies, so it was a departure from his usual stuff with this title. A great British cast including Frank Finlay and Freddie Jones. The police set a trap to catch the killer with the help of the pretty art teacher, a psychiatrist and an unscrupulous reporter. This was released by Powell Films on 4X400ft reels with some colour fade apart from the lovely green emulsion scratch that came and went periodically on reels 1 and 4 and seemed totally resistant to Eastman fade. We ended the evening with "Equinox". This was a great movie probably originally released on 4X400ft reels as this print had been respooled onto 2 very full 600ft reels and 1X200ft reel. I do not know who released this title as it was on Bonum reels in plastic cases. Any info on the Super 8 distributor would be gratefully received. Some fade but a great movie which I had never seen before. They say that it was one of the influences for "The Evil Dead", certainly with the cabin in the woods, the dead professor and the dreaded Necronomicon, as well Asmodeus running around in his various guises I can see why this may be so. Overall a great evening. I am looking forward to the next show now.
Paul.
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Michael De Angelis
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1261
From: USA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted October 14, 2009 05:18 PM
Hello Gian Luca Mario,
I am amazed by the color picts from Mary Poppins. Did you acquire this directly from Derann, or from a collector?
About 12 years ago, I purchased a Derann print, but was disappointed because the flesh tones had some blue-purple colors coming through and it was very distracting.
Derann said that they could not help, so I returned the feature. I wish that there was better quality control.
I love this film, but afraid to take a risk to purchase it again, because I need to have a guarantee and wish to buy it again.
Are you able to decode the type of film stock that your film is printed on, and if it was purchased by a collector, when this film was made?
Regards,
Michael
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