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Bruno Heughebaert
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 - posted February 14, 2016 01:46 PM      Profile for Bruno Heughebaert   Email Bruno Heughebaert   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Up for sale Elvis Presley GI BLUES
Super 8 on 4*600' reels english magnetic sound.
Card Box with French artwork (Café Europa en uniforme)
Print has turned red like most of the viacom prints
For this only 45£
Shipping from belgium to uk at cost : 13£
Payement : Paypal as gift

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Andrew Woodcock
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 - posted February 14, 2016 02:36 PM      Profile for Andrew Woodcock         Edit/Delete Post 
Mine is Viacom and these are noted as being the better prints Bruno where fade is concerned.

It's not perfect by any means but it is certainly not what us collectors would term "red".

You've been unlucky there Bruno by the sounds of things.

I've had, before now, two prints of exactly the same Viacom Elvis film (not this one), one is more acceptable where fade is concerned, the other is totally faded.

It's weird how two films on exactly the same stock, stored in a relatively cold climate throughout their lives, can be so very different to one another this stage in proceedings?

It's a darned shame hardly any Elvis films made it onto low fade stock. If any star deserved to be preserved in celluloid, surely Elvis was one of them!

[ February 15, 2016, 07:18 AM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]

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Bruno Heughebaert
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you're right Andrew
Elvis deserved far better.
he's right now playing on my 1960's rock ola jukebox !

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Clinton Hunt
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Hi guys,just slightly on that subject....I have a few Elvis 400ft editions and they are either slightly red or very red.But I still enjoy watching them as that's 99% of the time the best they will be fade wise when getting them.
Wouldn't it have been fantastic to buy the films when they were newly released and see them in all their glorious colour!

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John Hermes
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I bought a new full-length Viacom print of Girls! Girls! Girls! in about 1977. It had very nice color then, of course. I sold it after a few years. I picked up four Elvis digests a couple years ago and they were all faded. I think some of the rare 400' versions of Viva Las Vegas are on low-fade stock. It's too bad the Viacom films weren't released a few years later, after the advent of low-fade print stock.

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Andrew Woodcock
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Derann released a cut down 3x400ft version of Viva Las Vegas quite late on so it is on low fade stock and still looks superb albeit a little dark on one or two prints I have seen of it.

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David Skillern
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Hi all,

I've got Viacom prints of GI Blues and Blue Hawaii and they are excellent, however my copy of Girls Girls Girls - is a Derann print and it has some fade - but still watchable.

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Andrew Woodcock
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Yes, I have two of "Girls", one is ok, the other is totally red now sadly.

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Jose Artiles
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I have a very rare print of G.I. BLUES that its on Agfa s1,its a print that i bougth from derann from the second hand list a few years in 1999,it still have great color..i wonder how many prints of that kind were made. [Roll Eyes]

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Mark Mander
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My Girls, Girls, Girls has excellent colour, G.I Blues is also very good, Tickle Me is also excellent, I have also got Viva Las Vegas which is lovely, Roustabout, Blue Hawaii, Fun in Acapulco and Paradise Hawaiian Style, That's The Way It Is and Elvis on Tour all have fade, my 400ft Blue Hawaii has great colour but the others are faded.

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Andrew Woodcock
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Great collection there Mark! So many without any noticeable fade is about as good as it comes now on Super 8mm I'd say. [Smile]

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Mark Mander
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Low fade copies are about Andrew, I've bought and sold all the Elvis films over the years, best looking one I ever had was Roustabout, it had beautiful colour and looked like a technicolour print, as I said stupidly I sold it!!!! [Frown]

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Andrew Woodcock
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That really was one to hang onto Mark! What a shame, but then again, hindsight is always a wise old thing.
We've all done the same at times Mark, then regretted ever since!

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John Hermes
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Off topic but I had ten Elvis films in 35mm in the 1990s, including IB Techs on Blue Hawaii, G!G!G!, Fun In Acapulco, Roustabout, Frankie & Johnny, and Paradise Hawaiian Style. I had Eastman prints on World's Fair, VLV, Tickle Me, and Spinout. Xenon projector, 20-foot scope screen. Ah, those were the days!

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Del Phillipson
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Impressive John, bet you wish you still had it.

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