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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 30, 2016 11:43 AM
yeah, I have "Godfrey" as well and if it wasn't one of my all-time favorite films, I'd toss it, good grey tones, but not too nice on the sharpness level, very marginal.
I have heard that they're "It's A Wonderful LIfe" print was actually pretty good.
Niles was nice in that, good quality or not, they tended to release some rare stuff that no one else would touch.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted March 31, 2016 01:52 AM
For Niles,beware of their silent titles.I had bought a number of Our Gang silents which were from bad to atrocious.Their Buster Keatons,also.Their sound b^w prints,all public domain,in general are good (Bluebeard,Blue Angel,It's A Wonderful Life,Flying Deuces,etc).A few are abysmal,(like White Zombie and b^w prints coming from color originals).When later they obtained exclusive rights from several companies,(The Sherlock Holmes series,the Benedict Bogeaus color features),and worked more or less from original elements,the results were fine. Unfortunately,the color films today have turned reddish.But that is another story!
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Patrick Feuerstein
Film Handler
Posts: 36
From: St Savin, France
Registered: Mar 2016
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posted March 31, 2016 03:03 AM
I've many prints from Niles, specially all Sherlock Holmes films (B.Rathbone). They are good except "In Wash." which have grain. Also a print of the entertaining "Private Buckaroo" (my all time favorite) which is excellent for such a product.
You must know that the quality of our Super8 prints depends of the original material furnished by the owners of the rights who have not, generally, the first rate prints which will serve to make an internegative for printing Super8. Niles generally used TV prints which were "grey" according for the telecine system which were not, at that time, "digital".
Derann and Ken Films managed to have Interneg from the Interpositive element (i.e. 3 Musketeers, Barkleys of Broadway, Strike up the Band, Robin Hood, Yankee Doodle Dandy), 1st rate quality also for "Fall of Roman Empire". The cost was high but in these years there were enough customers to cover it.
Last exemples from Red Fox : "Jungle Book" and "Gorgo" (another favorite) of which the interneg were made from redish 16mm prints with corrections.
Another thing: interneg, or neg material, have is positive film stock. Unfortunaltely when the neg is a little bit too old there's not adapted positive because film stock makers ceased to furnish. For exemple, Derann printed films from the Coll.Club catalog (i.e. "Carve her name with pride") and the result was not the same that original C.C. ones.
That's all (for the moment)
A former film restorer (retired)
[ March 31, 2016, 10:33 AM: Message edited by: Patrick Feuerstein ]
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