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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 11, 2009 06:53 PM

Hi French and Belgium members,

In this forum there is a bit info on Film Office but in my experience I never got disappointed with Film Office releases because they accidentally are on AGFA.

My questions are:

1. I found that Film Offices releases (animation) include:

a. Asterix
b. Popeye
c. Tom & Jerry
d. Looney Tunes
e. Spiderman
f. Pink Panther
g. ??

Did I miss any?

2. Are those Film Offices released on AGFA (low fade) or any of them also on Eastman/Kodak SP?

3. Not about Film Office, what about Walt Disney releases, are they on AGFA or Kodak SP/Eastman?

thanks,

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Winbert

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

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From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

posted November 12, 2009 03:12 AM

Winbert,

To your list, you may add:
- Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Jean Image animation)
- Gulliver (Max Fleisher)
- Lucky Luke (belgian/french produced animated western
- Mighty Mouse
- Gedeon (french produced cartoon about a little duck)
- Kiri the Clown (animated puppets)
- The Ant and the Aardvark (from the pink panther producers)
- Barnabe (never seen any of these)

Of the Looney tunes, they only had Bugs Bunny shorts. The other characters were released by Hefa film.

Disney releases were done through Film Office. Some of the boxes feature the Film Office logo, especially the early generic boxes.

Some of the reels I own are fading (a few Disney films) so I don't think all of the prints were made on Agfa stock.

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Michael O'Regan
Film God

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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted November 12, 2009 03:59 AM

Some AGFA stock has been known to fade or desaturate, especially earlier prints. I'm not sure AGFA could be called a true "low fade" stock.

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 12, 2009 06:46 AM

Thanks JM,

Yes I just found one of my French Disney is from Film Office. The cover is the generic one with FO logo. But later I also see the Disney cover (artwork) that exactly the same with the American releases, are those also from Film Office?

quote:
Some of the reels I own are fading (a few Disney films)

Since you just mention your Disney, does it mean Asterix, T&J, Bugs Bunny, Pink Panther and Lucky Luke (since they are myt favorite) are on AGFA?

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Winbert

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

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From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

posted November 12, 2009 10:53 AM

Winbert, yes all Disney releases were made through Film Office.

I haven't noticed any fading on the other titles I own (T&J, Pink Panther, Lucky Luke) and, on the ones I checked, I didn't see any stock information.

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Jean-Christophe Deblock
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Grimbergen, Brabant, Belgium.
Registered: Mar 2007

posted November 12, 2009 12:46 PM

Hi everyone,

Well, I confirm:

Film Office release a lot of film: cartoons but also a lot of other films like: La grande Vadrouille, le corniaud, Don Camillo ( frensh films ), Citizen Kane, some John Wayne films,...

But I don't remember any fading colors with Film Office.
For exemple: Citizen Kane... Heu.... Sorry, it's black & white...
:-)

JC.

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Fabrizio Mosca
Master Film Handler

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From: Milano, Italy
Registered: Jan 2004

posted February 13, 2010 04:58 AM

Hi,
Today I found a Film Office copy of John Ford's "The fugitive" (Dieu est mort), and it says it's an abridged version (checking with IMDB it seems only 5 minutes are missing). The copy is in excellent conditions and I wonder how many features FO released.

Is there any chance to find a list?

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

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From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

posted February 13, 2010 07:34 AM

Fabrizio, the Film Office catalogue would be too long to reproduce here. Check out Ebay France regularly as these show up from time to time.

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Yanis Tzortzis
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Greece
Registered: Aug 2005

posted February 13, 2010 07:57 AM

JM,is there a way you can post a page of a Film Office catalogue with the FRENCH FULL FEATURE releases? I'd love to know which French films were copied in S-8,and as far as I know it was only them that made any;am I asking for too much? [Roll Eyes]

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Fabrizio Mosca
Master Film Handler

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From: Milano, Italy
Registered: Jan 2004

posted February 13, 2010 09:08 AM

Jean Marc, I was referring only on full features. Did they print lot of titles?

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