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Tom Photiou
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From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted June 11, 2015 03:22 PM

Well, we had a surprise tonight, we decided to put through both our Battlestar Galactica films.
Both,as you know, were released by universal 8 and originally on 2 x 400ft reels. Battlestar Galactica and Mission Galactica.
We have mounted ours onto 1 600ft spool and used the original box to make a full size 600 ft label on the front and back and covered them neatly with good quality sticky back plastic. We last watched them both in 2010.
Well, we were convinced they were going to be red! we put BG on first and aside light fade it has held up really well, very surprised. However,
We then put Mission Galactica through & were gob smacked at how good this print is, no fade ,great colour and absolutely pin sharp,(the images here really do not do it justice). The space is black and the whites are white, i dont think i have seen a universal 8 print with colours like this one apart from when they were new, although my National Lampoons animal house comes very close.

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted June 11, 2015 03:39 PM

Yep, that is holding up well Tom. Quite a few are I've found. It's as if they do their majority of fading early on and just stay the same way for a long time thereafter.

Grease is a good example of what I'm saying, it was never perfect even when I had 3x 400ft in the 90's for its colour. Yet here I am 25 or so years later and my second identical copy of this seems no worse now than it was then?

I have found certain Viacom prints age in a similar manner while others are just beetroot. It's really strange in many ways what makes one print age very differently from another, yet in theory, they ought to be identical. [Confused]

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Mark Howard
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From: Manchester, U.K.
Registered: Jul 2007

posted June 11, 2015 03:41 PM

There's no better feeling than discovering no fade on a print you haven't seen for a while. Quite a few of my U8 releases have kept their colour and still look great today. The only faded ones I spotted during my last large scale check a few months ago was The Jerk and North Sea Hijack.

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted June 11, 2015 03:45 PM

Used to love the cut down of The Jerk first time around. It was my first "brand new bargain buy" first time around in the hobby. I wish some of these had made the later low fade stock.

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Tom Photiou
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From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted June 11, 2015 04:15 PM

we also checked our High plains drifter, a really good cut down and this one is also still really good, it always looks worse until the titles go, im sure it just seems it but then there is a lot daylight scenes which lasts longer colour wise,that said the night scenes are black. [Wink]

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