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Brad Kimball
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posted March 03, 2013 09:50 PM

I had no idea these existed. Just saw "Where No Man Has Gone Before" from Marketing Films on Ebay which is sold now. I thought only Canterbury Films released the original Star Trek series on Super 8. The boxes are too cool with each segment given its own "bogus" Castle Films-type title. Who Knew??!!

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Brian Hendel
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posted March 03, 2013 09:54 PM

I don't think those were real Marketing prints - just a collector with a very creative idea of making homemade boxes!

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Oemer Yalinkilic
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posted March 04, 2013 02:49 AM

I wanted to congratulate the seller for this fine artwork and he wrote back, that the artwork is done from someone other.
Yes, the artwork is very well done.

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Pasquale DAlessio
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posted March 04, 2013 03:42 AM

It wasn't me [Big Grin]

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Joerg Polzfusz
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posted March 04, 2013 05:07 AM

Hi,

marketing only released "Star Trek - the motion picture" (as a digest):
marketing international:
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/k-mfinter_stocks.htm
marketing Germany:
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/k-mfn81.htm

However not only Canterbury Films, but also Red Fox released at least one episode:
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/rezent756.htm

Jörg

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Adrian Winchester
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posted March 04, 2013 08:48 PM

I believe Thunderbird Films released some Super 8 and 16mm Star Trek episodes. Someone once posted a magazine ad on this Forum.

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Douglas Meltzer
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posted March 04, 2013 09:20 PM

Thunderbird did put out some Super 8mm Star Trek episodes in both full length and 400' cutdowns. I'm assuming they were bootlegs since they looked like dupes, and because......they were from Thunderbird.

Doug

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John Clancy
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posted March 05, 2013 03:41 AM

I remember being told the Star Trek episodes appeared on Super 8 because the copyright had expired so they may well have been legal at the time.

Marketing did apparently have prints of 'Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan' out there but how many there were and the legal status of those prints is unknown to me. Possibly the International arm of the company went bust just as the release date approached.

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Tom Photiou
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posted March 05, 2013 06:38 AM

Star Trek 2, i think, was the best of the movies, that would be a great title on Super 8

[ March 05, 2013, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: Tom Photiou ]

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Laksmi Breathwaite
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posted March 05, 2013 01:09 PM

But who would have low fade good color? Nice bootleg box.

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Osi Osgood
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posted March 05, 2013 02:06 PM

Did they release STAR TREK 2 as a 400ft or a 3X400ft (like Star Trek "1")? This is quite interesting as I never knew this before!

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John Clancy
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posted March 06, 2013 03:10 AM

Feature only. Of course this could all be complete cobblers and nothing ever made it out of the lab but I have been told prints of this title did appear full length. If they did I expect they were just check prints and perhaps a couple of extra prints on top of that before the company went out of business.

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Rob Young.
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posted March 06, 2013 05:03 AM

Perhaps Barry at Independent 8 can confirm this, but I seem to recall that he had a couple of 3x400ft versions (Wrath of Khan) on his list many years back...all with Marketing leaders.

Check prints just before Marketing gave up on super 8?

I'd love a copy!!

[ March 06, 2013, 07:00 AM: Message edited by: Rob Young. ]

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