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Topic: The Tell Tale Heart RARE standard 8mm sound print on ebay!
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Timothy Ramzyk
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From: Milwaukee,WI,USA
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted December 18, 2012 03:02 PM
For what it's worth, this is what the Wiki entry says
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In May 1953, pre-production started on The Tell-Tale Heart, which originally was intended to be a 3-D film.[1] However, it is not known whether or not the film was animated in this fashion, and it was not released in 3D if it was. There is no reference to 3D in a technical trade review.[2] Furthermore, the leaders on original prints of the film do not indicate it ever was part of a pair of 3D prints, typical of all other 3D pictures.[3]
and this from IMDB, which curiously mentions the very 8mm prints that Columbia put out has giving the impression that the film was 3-D. I wonder if they mean that goofy "Ultra-Sonic Sound" logo?
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Rumors for years surrounding this film would have it being in 3-D. However, absolutely no trade magazines list the production as being in 3-D (even pre-filming announcements and in-production articles), and according to Grover Crisp, head of the restoration unit at Sony/Columbia, the original negative bears absolutely no markings that would indicate that the film had any 3-D origins. It is speculated, based on several collectors' memories, that the myth started when super8mm editions of the film were labeled with 3-D stickers by accident, around the same time that stickers were being put on the 3-D shorts that Columbia was releasing in that format.
[ December 18, 2012, 06:56 PM: Message edited by: Timothy Ramzyk ]
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Timothy Ramzyk
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posted December 19, 2012 02:16 AM
I've loved this film from day one. I must have seen it as a kid, because in 92 I worked on a theatrical production of the THE TELL-TALE HEART, and my set sketches bare a strong resemblance to the cartoon. So much so that when I got my hands on a Columbia VHS of it, a was surprised how I'd been influenced having not seen it since I was a child.
Over the the years since I've picked up the 8mm print, bought the special edition of HELLBOY on DVD because it's hidden as an extra, and finally last years JOLLY FROLICS boxed set of UPA cartoons.
I fully agree, there weren't enough Poe cartoons, or horror cartoons in general.
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
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posted December 20, 2012 08:19 PM
That poster is fantasic, it looks the business and by looking at the
puppets I would think this is definately not for the young, I would
think Tim Burton would approve.I honestly think a series of Poe
stories in the style of what I have seen here,they need only be
ten minutes long, much like Ray Harryhausens Fairy tale series,
I believe would be very popular.Some years back I remember
one of the UK TV channels putting on a series of short films
based on Shakespeare's plays, each one was done differently as
in animated drawings, plastimation, marionettes etc and were
all hugely entertaining.Have you ever considered doing something similar.There was an amateur film maker over here
by the name of Sheila Graber who won the Ten Best with one
of her films on S/8 and her films were released by one of the
8mm distributors over here for sale.I would love to see you do
an animated version of "The Raven" in the same style of those set drawings, while Vincent Price read the poem on the track.
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