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Topic: Q The Winged Serpent - is yours faded?
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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1633
From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted July 09, 2008 12:56 PM
Adrian, as I had a day off today and was wondering what to watch, your post promted me to lace up "Q" and have a look.
I've owned my print for several years and I don't believe it has shown any sign of fading (none of my prints from Derann of that period have either).
What I would say is that it does have a look which I think is common to several relases of that era.
I'm willing to stand corrected but my understanding is that these abridged versions from Derann in the 80s were sourced from 35mm theatrical prints.
In my own personal opinion many 8mm prints sourced in the same way don't have any real detail in the darker areas of the image (although some are better than others, "Gremlins" being a very good example). As a result, black areas of the picture are never anywhere near black, but more like grey, or as in the case of "Q", brown looking as the colour balance may be a little off toward the yellow side. Highlights often look quite burned-out as well.
Whether this was a result of the lab producing 16mm negatives / 8mm prints that attempted to maintained more level of shadow detail, or just the simple result of copying a 35mm release print I wouldn't know, but like I say, it is a look I have found common to a lot of abridged releases of that era (different story for features of course which were usually sourced from negatives!)
Would be interesting to know what the blues are like in your print, Adrian, as mine has reasonable blue levels (albeit a bit on the pale side) in the scenes with a lot of sky, or those scenes with the security guards uniform, or the cops blue uniforms. If your print has too, I think this might just be the way these prints look and not down to fade.
Technical stuff aside, I think this film is hilarious for all the wrong reasons...I dread to think what some of those actors must have been on to produce those performances!!!
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