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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted December 23, 2015 12:42 PM
I was just wondering if anyone can give me some info on these two releases.
All I know is that they made two 50ft standard 8mm releases from one film "Spooks" on standard 8mm silent and 3D. The copy that I lucked out in finding had one of the labels for the release and it was called "Tails of Terror" and it actually had an image of the Three Stooges with skeletons and such, but with Curly (and this was a Shemp short). The person I bought it from actually took the time to completely go through it and edit in order of the scenes from the film, and with cement splices, which took a lot of work, as some of the cuts are literally one shot long. Also, I noted that the two releases were on different forms of earlier Eastman stock and even though it has fade, the 3D effect still works remarkably well.
Any info on when these were released? I'm assuming it was a Columbia pictures super 8 release.
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Osi Osgood
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posted December 24, 2015 11:29 AM
Douglas to the rescue!!!!!
That's it, "Tales of Horror", and those are the little reels in question!
It's too bad that these weren't printed on Agfa or some other low fade stock, as the 3D effect would be even better, but I'm happy to have it.
But now you've brought up another question ... I see on the label to these boxes, that's "Super 8". I have never seen a super 8 copy of these!! I'd love to find a super 8 copy, as I have only seen the standard 8mm ones, so I'm betting that the super 8 copies are even rarer!
OSI
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Osi Osgood
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posted December 28, 2015 12:09 PM
Alright, we get it already ... It is "Tales of Horror' ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
(snicker)
Well, though the print have Eastman fade, (and the other point is correct, the two were printed quite differently), it's obviously reddish, but there is enough of the other color (green) to allow or some still pretty good 3D effects on it. There's a really good one where they spray water on a villain and it really jumps out of the screen.
I liked how, at the beginning of this specific film (the other one just has the Stooges pointing canes at the screen), this one has Larry walking much closer to the camera than the other two, which starts out the short in a grand way.
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Osi Osgood
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posted January 02, 2016 01:40 PM
Sadly, I have to say that the 400ft "Pardon My backfire" (the other 3D Stooge short, released by Derann), is really hit and miss when it comes to the 3D effects. Some shots will have very good depth, however, there is a good deal of "flanging" ( I just call it that, my name for when the separation between the red and blue is too extreme, that it destroys the 3D impact), to much of the film, which I'm betting wasn't Derann's fault, but was a fault in the preprint material.
I personally feel that the 3D effect is better on that edited "Spooks", then the "Pardon My backfire".
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