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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

Posts: 2392
From: France
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted April 12, 2010 03:12 AM
Yesterday, an afternoon of film sampling with fellow forum member Daniel Aveline.
- Star Wars III opening scene (r1 + half r2) with DTS sound - Assorted super 8 scope trailers (Independence Day, Broken Arrow, Wild Wild West, The Mummy, Sleeping Beauty, The Black Hole) - My Name is Nobody (Marketing's 400 + 300ft reels + U8 digest spliced together and retracked) - Opening reel of "You Only Live Twice" in glorious scope

Daniel had purchased the film brand new from CHC at the last BFCC. Print is superb, great colours, powerful mono sound, slight grain.
Yesterday evening on BD: The Hangover (that one will clearly become one of my new cult films). [ November 06, 2010, 11:12 AM: Message edited by: Jean-Marc Toussaint ]
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Lars-Goran Ahlm
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 205
From: Åmål, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2010
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posted April 12, 2010 05:32 AM
Yesterday afternoon: El Cid, original Lone Wolf edition.
Then on the evening something odd happened. A little over two months ago I bought The Woman in Red on 8mm, optical sound. Being a airline copy I assumed it would be slightly edited since it is about adultery. Not having seen the movie after it's release back in 1983 I was not shure what, if anything, was missing. Then a couple of days ago it was aired on Canal+ here in Sweden, and I recorded it on my HD-DVD. Yesterday evening I saw it, and to my great surprise there was scenes missing. After watching the "film version" i put on the 8mm on the GS1200 and timed it with the counter. Yes there are some slight edits, especially in the scenes at the end, in the bedroom. But those omissions can't make more than 30 seconds. Two major scenes are still in the film, but are different takes, probably made deliberately for TV. But, and this is a big but, there are several scenes that are prolonged with additional material, and several completly new scenes are added. When recalculating the figures on the counter I found that the 8mm version is 92 minutes long. That is no less than five minutes longer than the theatrical cut, according to IMDB (87 minutes).
I always thought that airline prints, if not in original versions, where shorter than the theatrical original, so what happened here?
I'm not complaining, this makes the 8mm copy much more desirable in my opinion, since this version don't seem to be around on DVD, despite the recent trend of extended cuts.
Does anybody know if there is another film on 8mm optical that is longer than the theatrical cut, if there is one there must be atleast one more, or have they all been destroyed?
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